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  • Visualisation | 02 Sep 2025
EU Missions | Soil deal for Europe

The EU Mission ‘A Soil Deal for Europe’ (Mission Soil) is one of five Missions funded under the EU Research and Innovation (R&I) Programme Horizon Europe. Its goal is to create 100 Living Labs and Lighthouses by 2030 to promote sustainable land and soil management in urban and rural areas.

The Mission Soil is rooted in research and innovation and was launched under HORIZON Europe, the EU Research and Innovation (R&I) Programme. Funded projects gather partners from all over Europe and beyond to work together towards achieving the Mission Soil objectives.

More information about the Funder projects under the Mission Soil.

In this page, you will find information about the collaboration between the Soil Mission projects and the EU Soil Observatory (EUSO). The list of examples is not exchaustive and it becomes available in reverse chronological order. The examples listed below resulted in published work or datasets available in the EU Soil Observatory. There are more bilateral collaboration which are under development.