This EU Partnership aims to boost the transformation needed towards a climate-neutral, sustainable, productive, and competitive blue economy by 2030 while creating and supporting the conditions for a sustainable ocean for the people by 2050.

The first SBEP Co-funded call pools national and regional financial resources through the participation of 37 research funding organisations from 23 countries (19 Member-States). The total estimated budget is about 50 Million Euros.

This first co-funded call aims to support transnational research and innovation projects (36 months) addressing one of the five priority areas:

• Planning and managing sea-uses at the regional level
• Development of offshore marine multi-use infrastructures to support the blue economy
• Climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable, and resource-efficient blue food and feed
• Green transition of Blue Food production
• Ocean Digital Twin (ODT) test use cases at EU sea-basins and the Atlantic Ocean

Projects in this Co-funded call must be impact-driven contributions to the transformation into a blue economy for a more resilient future and towards carbon neutrality targets, following an impact pathway approach.

Projects must be developed at a pan-European level and in the different European sea basins: the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea, the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean and establish close cross-sectorial cooperation in the science, innovation, and economic sectors. Stakeholder engagement as partners or self-funded partners is encouraged (according to national/regional regulations) to enhance innovation, policy, and societal relevance and ultimately the impact of the projects.

Timeline and eligibility criteria:

• April 14^th, 2023 – pre-proposal submission
• September 13^th, 2023 – full-proposal submission
• max. 400,000 euros German funding per project (overhead included)
• Funding for transnational joint projects with min three partner from three participating countries

Participating countries:

EU member states: Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, The Netherlands

Non EU countries: Faroe Islands, Iceland, Norway, Turkey

Further information:

https://bluepartnership.eu/#call

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