Associated country pay-ins may be directed to plug a biodiversity funding gap and finance innovation scale up
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The European Commission is mulling over a plan to reshuffle Horizon Europe funding for 2026-27 to finance policy priorities and plug a biodiversity funding gap, according to leaked draft documents and internal memos.
The plan, which Commission officials have been discussing internally since autumn 2025, foresees launching a big new “horizontal” call for biodiversity-related projects aimed at helping the EU meet its target of dedicating 10% of its overall 2026-27 budget to biodiversity. The call is set to have a dedicated work programme, the leaked draft of which you can find here.
According to internal memos on the plans seen by Science|Business, the biodiversity mega-call will be financed using the…
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