The CORE Organic Pleiades is an international network encompassing 30 partners in 18 countries/ regions and 6 international networks, that joins forces to support transnational R&I in the area of organic food and farming. The network activities were implanted under the Horizon Europe project OrganicTargets4EU from 1 September 2022 until 28 February 2026. The network partners have decided to continue as a self-sustained network until 31 December 2026 in order to complete selected activities from the CORE Organic Action Plan 2025-2026.
The current objectives of the CORE Organic Pleiades Network are:
Inclusion of organic research themes in Horizon Europe Partnership calls until 2030: Partnerships AGROECOLOGY and FutureFoodS
Continuous policy exchange for funders, stakeholder partners, researchers and the European Commission (EC) representatives
Continuation of the CORE Organic network 2026-2030 (Subject to a decision of the network members and availability of the future funding)
The CORE Organic network serves as a platform for organic policy exchange and cooperates with the Horizon Europe funding instruments relevant to organics. The CORE Organic has existed since 2004 and has launched 8 transnational calls for funding, totalling 61.9 million EUR. Find more information about the previous CORE Organic network periods see here.