Lower Silesia 360 Integrated Farm Advisory Implementation

The selected applicant will support continuity for the farms recruited during 2026 while helping the landscape expand toward its ambition of up to 170 participating farmers and approximately 21,470 hectares by the end of 2028. The activity will combine farmer recruitment and onboarding, regenerative agronomic advice, Transition Plans, farmer training, data readiness, soil assessment and sampling, demonstration farms, peer learning, and regional communication and outreach. 

Applicants are invited to propose one coherent implementation model covering all required activity areas. The proposed approach should be adapted to Lower Silesian farming systems, agricultural seasons and farmer needs, while complementing the project’s separately contracted Monitoring, Reporting and Verification infrastructure.

The successful applicant will work closely with EIT Food, participating corporate offtakers, farmers, the MRV consortium, the designated project platform and the designated laboratory. The activity will include implementation of the MRV-approved soil carbon sampling campaign and development of a proportionate agronomic soil-assessment approach to support farm-specific Transition Plans.

The call is open to individual legal entities and applicant consortia. Applicants must demonstrate relevant experience in agronomic advisory, farmer training or regenerative agriculture implementation in Poland, together with continuous Polish-language farmer-facing capacity and English-language reporting capability.

Key information

• Call title: Lower Silesia 360° Integrated Farm Advisory Implementation
• Call publication date: 14 August 2026
• Application deadline: 14 October 2026 at 12:00 CET
• Deadline for applicant questions: 5 October 2026 at 12:00 CET
• Indicative interviews: 23 October 2026
• Indicative notification of results: 28 October 2026
• Contracting and onboarding period: 28 October to 28 November 2026
• Intended activity start date: 1 January 2027
• Activity end date: 31 December 2028, with the possibility of extension subject to approval and funding
• Maximum available funding: EUR 910,786
• Number of proposals expected to be funded: One
• Funding model: Actual eligible costs, subject to Horizon Europe and EIT Food funding rules
• Applicant co-funding: Applicants are not expected to provide co-funding
• Primary implementation area: Lower Silesian Voivodeship (and surrounding areas), Poland
• Language of application: English
• Farmer-facing delivery language: Polish
• Submission platform: MyEITFood

Main activity areas

The selected applicant will be expected to propose an integrated approach covering:

• mobilisation and continuity for the farmer cohort recruited in 2026;
• recruitment and onboarding of new farmers in 2027 and 2028;
• farm-specific regenerative agriculture advice;
• preparation and annual review of Transition Plans;
• farmer training and practical capacity building;
• farm, field, crop and management data collection and platform input;
• implementation of the MRV-approved soil carbon sampling campaign;
• agronomic soil assessment and sampling required for Transition Plans;
• establishment of three demonstration-farm hosts;
• delivery of at least two field or peer-learning events in 2027 and two in 2028;
• communication, dissemination and stakeholder engagement;
• implementation monitoring, quality assurance, reporting and landscape learning. 

Who can apply?

Applications may be submitted by a single legal entity or a consortium. The applicant or consortium must:

• be eligible for funding under the applicable Horizon Europe rules;
• demonstrate at least three years of relevant organisational experience in Poland;
• provide continuous Polish-language farmer-facing capacity;
• provide English-language project reporting;
• identify one Activity Leader;
• present one coherent implementation model with clear accountability across all activity areas;
• demonstrate the agronomic, operational, data and soil-sampling capacity required to deliver the proposed activity. 

Application documents

Applicants must submit:

• the completed application through MyEITFood;
• a detailed work plan covering Activity Areas A to H;
• a 2027 and 2028 budget;
• the required cost-category and planning-unit template;
• the declaration concerning the use of generative artificial intelligence;