Call for MRV providers to contribute to the LILAS4SOILS Project

EIT Food South is the Coordinator of the Horizon Europe-funded project “LILAS4SOILS - Fostering Carbon Farming Practices through Living Labs in the Mediterranean & Southern EU for the healthy future of European soils”. LILAS4SOILS put in place 5 Living Labs (LLs) in 6 countries – Spain, Portugal, France, Italy, Greece and Israel - to co-create and implement Carbon Farming Practices (CFPs) in 100 farms across these countries, in areas dedicated to the project (see Annex 1). LILAS4SOILS Living Labs are open innovation ecosystems that bring together farmers, researchers, public authorities, private sector and civil society to test CFPs in real-life settings such as commercial farms. The project will contribute to measuring and quantifying the change in CO2 equivalent emissions from the implementation of CFPs and contribute to establishing regenerative agriculture as a commercially viable option.

Via this Open Call, EIT Food will select up to 15 innovative MRV solutions and technologies to be tested under the LILAS4SOILS project during the period 2026-2028. The project aims to support the testing and validation of MRV technologies that facilitate sampling and analysis and contribute to the standardization and simplification of MRV activities across the project to measure the impact of CFPs implemented by LILAS4SOILS farmers. The data acquired with the novel technologies will be compared with the results obtained from the conventional sampling process (measure and remeasure) and process-based modelling developed under other LILAS4SOILS activities. 

The foreseen beneficiaries of this call will be technological small and medium enterprises (SMEs), start-ups, spin-offs or research teams from research institutions with promising new technology/device or tools that need to be tested and validated in real conditions. For the testing, selected providers will have access to the project’s network of 100 farms located across LILAS4SOILS Living Labs. Selected providers will receive a grant of €2.000 per selected technology and cropping season, for a maximum amount of €4.000 and 2 cropping seasons over the period 2026-2028.