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HORIZON-CL6-2027-03-GOVERNANCE-04 funds AI-based advisory tools for farmers and foresters, and the Commission's framing is deliberately unforgiving: the tools must be ready for deployment and proven to work better than currently available versions.
This is an Innovation Action requiring technology readiness level 8 by project completion, not a research topic, and proposals built around novel method development rather than validated deployment will not fit.
The technical scope named in the topic reads as a specification for a modern agricultural advisory system: integration of multiple data sources including public databases, in-situ data and private sources; multimodal input processing across text, images, audio and video; retrieval-augmented generation methodologies; and privacy protection techniques to handle commercially sensitive farm data.
Alongside the technology, the topic mandates co-development with end users across diverse European farming systems, publication of curated, interoperable and FAIR-compliant datasets, and substantive social sciences and humanities contributions covering legal, gender and behavioural expertise.
Expected outcomes are improved farm and forest management decisions, enhanced user AI literacy and advisory solutions validated in the field by advisors, farmers and foresters across Europe. The multi-actor approach is a mandatory eligibility criterion and proposals that do not demonstrate it are ineligible rather than merely weaker. Two projects are expected from an indicative budget of 11.
80 million euros. The topic opens 4 February 2027 with a single-stage deadline of 11 May 2027 at 17:00 Brussels time.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Standard Horizon Europe eligibility applies: consortia must include at least three independent legal entities from three different EU Member States or Horizon Europe associated countries, with at least one established in a Member State, and additional partners from third countries may participate under the programme's general rules. The decisive topic-specific requirement is the multi-actor approach, which is mandatory: proposals that fail to demonstrate it are ineligible, not simply lower scoring. In practice this means farmers, foresters, farm advisors and advisory services must be genuine consortium participants with budget and defined roles across the project rather than consultees in a work package on dissemination, and reviewers assess the depth of that integration closely. Because the action type is an Innovation Action aiming at technology readiness level 8, applicants must enter with an existing AI advisory tool at a demonstrable maturity and must be able to show it outperforms currently available alternatives; a consortium whose tool is still at prototype stage should target a Research and Innovation Action topic instead. Funding rates follow the Innovation Action rules, 70 percent of eligible costs for profit-making entities and 100 percent for non-profit legal entities, so consortium composition has direct financial consequences. Proposals must commit to publishing curated, interoperable and FAIR-compliant datasets and must include social sciences and humanities expertise spanning legal, gender and behavioural dimensions. The topic opens 4 February 2027 and the single-stage deadline is 11 May 2027 at 17:00 Brussels time; applicants should verify the final budget, dates and conditions on the EU Funding and Tenders Portal. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows the topic carries a total indicative budget of 11.80 million euros with an EU contribution of 5.00 to 6.00 million euros per project and two projects expected to be funded, giving an approximate per-project budget of 5.9 million euros. At roughly 1.17 US dollars to the euro this is about 5,850,000 to 7,020,000 US dollars per project, so amount_min is recorded as 5,850,000 and amount_max as 7,020,000 US dollars. Because this is an Innovation Action rather than a Research and Innovation Action, the funding rate is 70 percent of eligible costs for for-profit participants, while non-profit legal entities including universities and research organisations are funded at 100 percent, which means an industry-heavy consortium needs to find real co-funding and a consortium's cost structure materially affects how much work the 5.9 million euros actually buys. The budget must also stretch to cover an unusually demanding deliverable set: the topic requires technology readiness level 8 by project completion, a mandatory multi-actor approach with genuine end-user co-development across diverse European farming systems, publication of curated interoperable FAIR-compliant datasets, and contributions from social sciences and humanities covering legal, gender and behavioural expertise. Each of those is a budget line, and the field validation across multiple European farming and forestry contexts is typically the largest single cost after personnel. With only two projects funded from a two-project topic, the competition is concentrated and consortia should assume they are competing against a small number of very well-prepared bids. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Applications for Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL6-2027-03-GOVERNANCE-04: AI Supporting Informed Advice for Farmers and Foresters to Improve Competitiveness and Sustainability are due May 11, 2027. Build your timeline backwards from this date to cover registrations, approvals, and final submission checks.
Horizon Europe HORIZON-CL6-2027-03-GOVERNANCE-04: AI Supporting Informed Advice for Farmers and Foresters to Improve Competitiveness and Sustainability is funded by European Commission, Horizon Europe Cluster 6 (Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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