Objective
BALANCE’s objective is to support effective implementation of EU Nature Restoration Regulation and EU’s objectives for sustainability and competitiveness by identifying, testing, and promoting nature-positive farming systems and practices that are environmentally effective, economically viable, and socially accepted. Contributing to systemic transformation of Europe’s farming systems, BALANCE restores biodiversity and ecosystem services across agricultural landscapes, and safeguarding food security and long-term viability of farm economies.
With a strong inter- and transdisciplinary approach, BALANCE moves beyond isolated biodiversity management practices, by developing typology of farming systems that seamlessly integrates biodiversity targets and restoration actions with agroeconomic realities. The project explores inevitable trade-offs, and synergies between ecological, social and economic outcomes of restoration at both farm and landscape scale, using a robust multi-actor approach. Six case study regions provide hubs for co-creating and demonstrating innovation in policy, incentive schemes, indicators and monitoring frameworks.
BALANCE actively engages farmers, farm advisors, policymakers, civil society and scientific platforms through co-learning, knowledge exchange and capacity building. The resulting transformative pathways provide insights for those to implement the NRR and to govern farming system transformation.
Key outputs include; farming systems typology, restoration indicators, tools for target setting and monitoring of restoration measures, linked to policy recommendations and training materials tailored to farmers and advisors. Media such as storytelling, public events and policy dialogues ensure dissemination with wide reach and uptake.
BALANCE contributes to future viability of rural livelihoods, delivering long-term impacts for nature restoration, climate resilience and food security; and reinforcing public support for nature-positive agriculture.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology landscape ecology
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences sustainability sciences
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
- social sciences political sciences political policies civil society
- social sciences economics and business business and management
You need to log in or register to use this function
Keywords
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)
- Restoration
- Farming Systems
- Transformation
- Incentives
- Landscape
- Indicators
- Transformative Change
- Nature Restoration
- Nature Restoration Regulation
- Nature Restoration Plans
- Nature-Positive Farming
- Nature-Positive Agriculture
- Biodiversity
- Policy Mix
- Public-Private Governance
- Case Studies
- Satisfactory Levels
- Biodiversity Indicators
- Landscape Approach
- Farm Decision Making
- Implementation Pathways.
Programme(s)
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
-
HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
MAIN PROGRAMME
See all projects funded under this programme -
HORIZON.2.6.3 - Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Areas
See all projects funded under this programme
Topic(s)
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.
Funding Scheme
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
See all projects funded under this funding scheme
Call for proposal
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2025-01
See all projects funded under this callCoordinator
Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.
6708 PB Wageningen
Netherlands
The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.