This document provides guidance on multi-actor projects and thematic networks funded through the EU's Horizon 2020 program. It emphasizes that these projects should have practical applicability by involving stakeholders like farmers and advisors throughout the project. For multi-actor projects, it stresses demonstrating relevance to end-user needs, complementarity with existing research, and sufficient involvement of actors with different types of knowledge. Thematic networks are expected to compile existing scientific and best practice knowledge not widely known or used by practitioners, and produce dissemination materials like practice abstracts accessible to farmers.