NOSTRADAMUS - Open Call #1: Funding Digital Applications for Sustainable and Efficient Agriculture
Horizon Europe · Cascade funding
Summary
A Polish company can use this call for R&D.
SMEs, startups, small mid-caps, researchers and end-user organisations develop and validate open-source agricultural applications using NOSTRADAMUS data infrastructure.
- Who can apply
- Companies can lead: SME, startup, large company, research org, university, other.
- Amount
- €50K per projectTotal budget €250,000
- Deadline
- 02 Dec 2026 18:00 CETin 39 days
- Status
- Openopened 29 Sept 2026
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source.
Description
NOSTRADAMUS Open Call #1 invites system actors and innovators (SMEs, start-ups, small mid-caps, RTOs, end-user organisations) to design, develop, test, and validate multi-functional, open-source digital applications for farm decision-making and agribusiness.
Selected Third Parties will build upon the NOSTRADAMUS data infrastructure - including multi-dimensional Open Data Cubes, Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Earth Observation pipelines, real-time IoT Observatory streams, and socio-economic datasets - to deliver data-driven tools that optimize agricultural inputs (water, fertilizers, pesticides), improve energy balance, and enhance production resilience in cereal-based agricultural systems.
The call covers 5 designated topics:
• Topic 1 (T1): Sustainable crop production and optimisation of cereal-based systems under changing climate and soil conditions.
• Topic 2 (T2): Nutrient and soil health management, integrating soil fertility indicators, organic matter dynamics, and precision fertilisation models.
• Topic 3 (T3): Water resource efficiency and drought resilience, using Early Warning System outputs and IoT-based soil moisture monitoring.
• Topic 4 (T4): Smart and predictive pest and disease management to support the EU objective of reducing pesticide dependency.
• Topic 5 (T5): Open topic (integrated, cross-domain decision-support applications combining at least two topics T1–T4).
Awarded Third Parties must participate in a 12-month 4-Sprint program (Training, Design, Development & Validation, Demonstration & Assessment), physically demonstrate their application at 1 primary NOSTRADAMUS pilot site (DE, RS, CH, SI, or CY), deliver at least 1 user training session, release their source code as open-source, and author an EIP-AGRI Practice Abstract.
Official Project Website: https://nostradamus-project.eu
Helpdesk Email: opencall@nostradamus-project.eu
Eligible Applicants: Single SMEs / start-ups / small mid-caps, or consortia of up to 2 entities (Lead Beneficiary must be an SME/start-up/small mid-cap; 2nd partner can be an RTO/university or end-user/sectoral representation organisation).
• Funding Model: Fixed 12-month lump-sum grant of up to €50,000 paid / per project in 4 tranches linked to sprint performance reviews (10% + 25% + 40% + 25%).
• Starting TRL: Minimum TRL 4 (technology validated in lab), targeting TRL 7 by Month 12.
Who can apply, in detail
- Applicant types
- SME, Startup, Large company, Research org, University, Other
- Purpose
- Research and innovation
- R&D relevance
- 3 of 3
- Poland eligible
- Yes
- Country limit
- —
- Region
- Any
- Consortium
- Optional
- Readiness level (TRL)
- —
- Per project
- €50K
- Topics
- Precision agriculture
- Earth observation
- Agricultural IoT
- Open-source applications
- Soil and nutrient management
- Climate-resilient cereals
Machine-classified from the call text; check eligibility at the source. 23 Oct 2026
Conditions
Typed facts extracted from the source documents by Scindu's grant-data review. Each value keeps its own conditions. Unknown means unstated, not zero or unlimited.
- Applicant restriction
- Eligible applicants include SMEs/start-ups, small mid-caps, RTOs/academia and sectoral/end-user representation organisations; an application may be a single legal entity or consortium of at most two entities. For single-entity applications, the source further limits the applicant to a business entity providing/validating the solution.
- Application restriction
- NOSTRADAMUS OC1 closes 2 Dec 2026 at 17:00 CET.
- Consortium allowed
- Yes
- Consortium members, maximum
- 2
- Other condition
- The call funds five projects as financial support to third parties; no employee salary scale is established in the reviewed call.
- Other condition
- The per-project lump sum is paid in four milestone portions: 10% for training, 25% for design, 40% for development/validation and 25% for demonstration/assessment, linked to programme sprint completion.
Amounts and costs
- Indicative budget
- €250,000
Topic budget as stated in the portal's budget table. Lump-sum and per-project limits are in the call conditions.
- Funding per beneficiary, maximum
- €50,000
Maximum grant per selected project.
- Funding per beneficiary, maximum
- €50,000
Financial support to third parties; per-project maximum contribution, paid as staged lump sums.
- Eligible cost
- Eligible project categories: project management; research and technical development; testing/piloting; communication, promotion and exploitation; and required travel. Reportable cost types include human resources, other direct costs (travel, consumables, equipment), and indirect costs capped at 25% of personnel plus other direct costs.
- Funding intensity
- 100
- Ineligible cost
- Subcontracting costs are expressly not eligible under this open call.
Source documents
Call facts
- Opens
- 29 Sept 2026
- Deadline model
- Single-stage
- Programme
- Horizon Europe · 2021 - 2027
- Call
- NOSTRADAMUS - Open Call #1: Funding Digital Applications for Sustainable and Efficient Agriculture
- Types of action
- —
- Source
- ec.europa.eu
- Checked
- 23 Oct 2026
- Portal updated
- 9 Oct 2026
- Review status
- Partial review
- Reviewed
- 23 Oct 2026
This is a summary of the source page, not the official text. Eligibility, conditions and the submission system are at the source.