Horizon Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
Most of the money here is not in Horizon at all.
Agriculture and food are funded through a parallel system (the Common Agricultural Policy and national rural development programmes), which is larger than the research funding and organised on completely different terms.
Specific to this sector
Two funding systems, two sets of rules
Research funding and agricultural support run on separate logic: different eligibility, different documentation, different bodies, and largely different language. Organisations that know one system well routinely miss the other entirely, which is the specific reason multi-source coverage matters more in this sector than in any other.
Where the money is
The programmes that fund this sector, European and national. Each is screened against your organisation rather than listed for you to read.
- Horizon Europe Cluster 6
- Research on food systems and bioeconomy
- CAP national strategic plans
- The larger pot, administered nationally
- Rural development programmes
- Investment support, distinct rules per country
- LIFE Programme
- Biodiversity and ecosystems
- National agricultural agencies
- Where most applicants realistically start
Alongside more than ten national funding sources. Most competitors cover one country at a time.
Who this covers
Eligibility in this sector depends as much on what kind of organisation you are as on what you are building.
- Agritech and food companies
- Farms, producer groups and co-operatives
- Bioeconomy and circular processing
- Agricultural research institutes
- Rural development bodies
What kind of organisation are you?
The funding is the same. The argument for using us is not; it depends on whether you currently apply at all, pay somebody to, or answer for a whole territory.
See what Food & Agriculture funding you qualify for
Upload a project description and the platform screens it against every open programme in this sector, European and national.