Open Call for Farmers to Take Part in TRAILS4SOIL
9th June 2026
TRAILS4SOIL represents a significant opportunity for SAI Platform members, and your involvement will be essential to its success.
Learn more
Do you work with farmers in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Spain or Switzerland?
TRAILS4SOIL is now inviting farmers to participate in a network of Living Labs that will help shape the future of regenerative agriculture across Europe.
The open call is seeking farmers who are interested in testing, learning and collaborating with peers, researchers and value-chain partners to help shape more resilient farming systems.
How SAI Platform members can help
SAI Platform members are uniquely positioned to connect the project with farmers who can benefit most and contribute most. If you know farmers within your supply chain or networks who could be a good fit, we encourage you to share this opportunity and support their application.
Apply now: trails4soil.eu/open-call
Why get involved?
Participating farmers will become part of a collaborative network designed to test practical solutions, share experiences and help develop approaches that work under real farming conditions.
For members, TRAILS4SOIL offers an opportunity to strengthen engagement with farmers while contributing to the development of scalable regenerative agriculture solutions.
Looking ahead
As the project progresses, members will have opportunities to:
- Contribute market insights and help shape business models that support the long-term viability of Living Labs.
- Participate in value-chain pilots that support regenerative agriculture objectives and commitments.
- Access emerging tools, frameworks, data and networks developed through the project.
- Help co-create practical solutions that make regenerative agriculture viable at scale.
SAI Platform’s convening role
SAI Platform plays a central role within TRAILS4SOIL, bringing together stakeholders from across the food value chain and helping connect innovation with commercial reality.
A key focus of our work is ensuring that the Living Labs remain viable beyond the lifetime of the project. This includes developing sustainable business models, value-sharing mechanisms and market incentives that can support regenerative agriculture over the long term.
Project Partners
TRAILS4SOIL is a consortium of 22 research and agricultural organisations across Europe, coordinated by the University of Cordoba.
Partner Institutions
- University of Cordoba – Spain
- University of Evora – Portugal
- National Scientific Center Institute of Agriculture of NAAS – Ukraine
- Bern University of Applied Sciences – Switzerland
- Boden Leben – Austria
- Countryside & Community Research Institute – UK
- European Alliance for Regenerative Agriculture – Germany
- European Conservation Agriculture Federation – Belgium
- German Association for Conservation Tillage – Germany
- Institute for European Environmental Policy – Belgium
- National Center for Research and Seeds Production – Moldova
- Research Institute of Organic Agriculture – Switzerland
- Sustainable Agriculture Initiative Platform – Switzerland
- Slovenian Association for Conservation Agriculture – Slovenia
- South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences – Germany
- Spanish Conservation Agriculture Living Soils Association – Spain
- University of Cluj-Napoca – Romania
- University of Greenwich – UK
- University of Ljubljana – Slovenia
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences – Austria
- University of Teramo – Italy
- Young Farmer Association (ASAJA Seville) – Spain
TRAILS4SOIL is funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe Programme (Grant agreement ID: 101218949 — TRAILS4SOIL — HORIZON-MISS-2024-SOIL-01) and the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI).
