If you are looking for funding opportunities, 19 Horizon Europe calls relevant to FTP stakeholders are currently open. Among them, you will find CBE JU calls (Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking) and Horizon Europe Missions. The deadline to apply is set on 20 September 2023.

Here are some of the calls for which you can apply:

Forests&Forestry and Woodworking Industries:

• Optimised and integrated forest-based value chains (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-IAFlag-01)

• Optimised forest-based value chains for high value applications and improved forest management (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-R-02)

Woodworking Industries and Pulp&Paper

• Small-scale biorefining in rural areas (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-IA-01)

Forests & Forestry

• Discovering the subsoil (HORIZON-MISS-2023-SOIL-01-01)

• Mission Climate adaptation, Mission Ocean & waters and Mission Soil Deal for Europe – Joint demonstration of an integrated approach to increasing landscape water retention capacity at regional scale (HORIZON-MISS-2023-CLIMA-OCEAN-SOIL-01-01)

Pulp & Paper

• Robust and optimised industrial biotech and chemical/industrial biotech processes (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-R-03)

• Development of novel, high-performance bio-based polymers and co-polymers (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-R-04)

• Bio-based packaging materials with improved properties: barrier, food contact, forming, printability, safety, recyclability/circularity-by-design (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-IAFlag-03)

• Expansion and/or retro-fitting of biorefineries towards higher-value bio-based chemicals and intermediates (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-IAFlag-02)

• Improve fermentation processes (including downstream purification) to final bio-based products (HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-IA-03)

The other open calls are available on this page of the FTP Database.

The next opening of calls will be on 4 May 2023, with 6 new calls (mostly from the Built4People Partnership).