The Horizon Europe project HuMUS – Healthy Municipal Soils, funded under the EU Mission “A Soil Deal for Europe” opened a call for 20 Pilot Projects (maximum 30 k€ per project; lump sum).

Deadline: 5 April 2024

The overarching aim of the HuMUS project is to facilitate the deployment of the EU Soil Mission at regional and local levels in Europe. It will do so by creating collective spaces of constructive dialogue on soil health and quality threats, both inside and outside the consortium, which should adopt participatory governance methods and tools for soil quality and health governance in the territories involved.

One of the actions of this project is to fund Pilot Projects. In this context, there is now an open call for 20 Pilot Projects that are expected to provide substantial evidence that participatory governance methods and tools can promote, procure, and stimulate an increased and more diffused awareness of existing soil health issues and threats at local and regional levels and more effective approaches to their resolution. For this, several and different stakeholders must be actively involved in the funded proposals.

In addition to funding, the call winners will receive technical support from selected members of the HuMUS consortium. This may involve their optional participation in a Soil Stewards training program, which will include an in-depth presentation of the HuMUS methodology. In return for the support, Winners will participate in the HuMUS consortium’s formative and summative evaluation activities.

More information here.