The European Commission has published all of the 2026-27 Horizon Europe Work Programmes, which list the funding opportunities under the 2026-27 call topics.
No matter your field – whether you’re a business, university, research institute, charity, or not-for-profit – you could be eligible to apply for Horizon Europe funding to advance your cutting-edge research and innovation, fostering lasting impact and meaningful change.
Our Innovate UK European Team and UK National Contact Points can support you with these exciting potential funding opportunities and help you get the most out of Horizon Europe.
Applying from the UK
UK organisations and businesses can apply for Horizon Europe funding, working as part of a consortium with at least three countries, one of which must be an EU Member State (see “Who can apply?” below). If you are interested in one of the calls and would like to find a collaboration partner, contact Innovate UK Business Connect’s European Programmes team.
If you have formed a consortium and are ready to apply, you can do so via the Horizon Europe Funding and Tenders Portal. Click here to see all open Horizon Europe calls (you will need to search for the title of the call you are interested in).
Mission: A Soil Deal For Europe
The Soil Mission leads the transition towards healthy soils by funding an ambitious research and innovation programme with a strong social science component putting in place an effective network of 100 living labs and lighthouses to co-create knowledge, test solutions and demonstrate their value in real-life conditions developing a harmonised framework for soil monitoring in Europe, and raising awareness on the vital importance of soils.
Potential applicants may also be interested in Horizon Europe 2026-27: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment (Cluster 6), which has various closing dates until Sep 2027.
Who can apply?
Unless otherwise provided for in the specific call/topic conditions, only legal entities forming a consortium are eligible to participate in Horizon Europe actions provided that the consortium includes, as beneficiaries, three legal entities independent from each other and each established in a different country as follows:
Our European team can help you find eligible partners to form a consortium.
There may be further eligibility conditions for specific topics. Please check the Work Programme and contact our team to ensure your eligibility before applying.
- at least one independent legal entity established in a Member State;
- and at least two other independent legal entities, each established in different Member States or Associated Countries (this includes the UK).
Info days and brokerage events
The online EU Missions Info Days on 20 and 21 January covered the Soil Deal For Europe Mission on day 1 (from 2.30pm-4.30pm GMT), and joint calls were covered on Day 2 from 3pm-4pm GMT. View the full programme and watch recordings here.
The EU Missions brokerage events were held on 28 and 29 January, and brokerage signup will remain open until 30 September 2026. This will help you to build your consortium for the upcoming 2026 calls of the 2026 Missions Work Programme.
2026 calls in this EU Mission
- HORIZON-MISS-2026-05-SOIL-01: Monitoring soil health in practice: equipping stakeholders to sample, analyse, and interpret soil health indicators. c.€5m for a single project.
- HORIZON-MISS-2026-05-SOIL-02: Antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic biosynthesis in soils: developing key understanding and counteractive strategies using a One-Health approach. c.€7m per project for 2 projects.
- HORIZON-MISS-2026-05-SOIL-03: Enabling user-centred and open innovation initiatives to enhance soil health in Ukraine. c.€5m for a single project.
- HORIZON-MISS-2026-05-SOIL-04: Leveraging long-term field experiments and other datasets to develop AI-ready decision support systems for sustainable soil management. c.€9m for a single project.
- HORIZON-MISS-2026-06-CLIMA-SOIL: Joint demonstration of solutions to build soil resilience to extreme weather events and support food security. c.€10m per project for 2 projects. This is a joint call with the Adaptation to Climate Change Mission.
- HORIZON-MISS-2026-05-SOIL-01-two-stage: Living labs to enhance soil health in Alpine and Atlantic biogeographical regions. c.€12m per project for 2 projects.
- HORIZON-MISS-2026-05-SOIL-02-two-stage: Living labs to enhance soil health in managed forests and in natural/semi-natural lands. c.€12m per project for 2 projects.
2027 calls in this EU Mission
- HORIZON-MISS-2027-06-SOIL-CANCER: Living labs to monitor and mitigate carcinogenic substances in and originating from soils: Evaluating their effects on human cancer risks. c.€12m per project for 2 projects. This is a joint call with the Cancer Mission.
- HORIZON-NEB-2027-02-NEB-SOIL-01: Reducing soil sealing through sustainable urban and territorial design in the New European Bauhaus. c.€7.5m per project for 2 projects. This is a joint call with the New European Bauhaus Facility, listed in their work programme rather than in the Missions programme.
- HORIZON-MISS-2027-05-SOIL-01-two-stage: Living labs to enhance soil health in Continental, Black Sea, Pannonian and Steppic biogeographical regions. c.€12m each for 2 projects.
- HORIZON-MISS-2027-05-SOIL-02-two-stage: Living Labs for co-creating solutions to reduce eutrophication from agriculture. c.€12m each for 2 projects.
- HORIZON-MISS-2027-05-SOIL-03-two-stage: Agroforestry for soil health at landscape level. c.€8m each for 2 projects.
- HORIZON-MISS-2027-05-SOIL-04-two-stage: Participatory research on the health of communities in contact with polluted soils. c.€5.5m each for 2 projects.
- HORIZON-MISS-2027-05-SOIL-05-two-stage: Innovative biotechnologies to restore soil health and improve agricultural competitiveness and resilience. c.€6.4m each for 2 projects.
- HORIZON-MISS-2027-05-SOIL-06-two-stage: Long-term drivers and consequences of soil degradation: learning from the past to improve future soil health. c.€7m for a single project.
