Expected outcomes: 

Operationalising bioeconomy sustainability principles

• Generate new and improved knowledge on how sustainability principles (like cascading biomass use or the food-first principle) can be applied across diverse environmental, social, and economic contexts.

• Clarify future sectoral availability and demand for biomass types to help businesses and consumers make better-informed decisions.

Social sustainability and justice

• Advance understanding of how to capture and apply social sustainability, especially distributional and intergenerational justice, within Bioeconomy Monitoring Systems.

Scope: 

Ecosystem impact

• Assess how bioeconomy activities affect ecosystems.

• Develop strategies to protect or restore ecosystems while advancing bioeconomy goals.

Key actions

• Improve sustainability assessments of bio-based and food value chains from land and aquatic systems.

• Analyse bioeconomy innovation ecosystems for long-term feasibility.

• Demonstrate principles in regional case studies, especially within Regional Innovation Valleys for Bioeconomy and Food Systems.

• Identify deployment challenges and offer policy recommendations to overcome them.

Cross-disciplinary collaboration

• Proposals must use a multi-actor approach, involving diverse stakeholders including rural actors.

• Integration of Social Sciences and Humanities, including gender studies, is encouraged.

In total, two projects will be funded, with the European Union providing the funding.

Budget per project: Around € 4.000.000,00

Call deadline: 24 September 2025, 17.00 CET

Funding rate 

• RIA: (100% profit and non-profit) - TRL 3-5