Opportunities
Open Call: Expressions of Interest for Seascape Restoration Grants
The Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme has opened a call for expressions of interest (EoI) for Seascape Restoration Grants within European regional seas.
The dedicated seascapes funding will support projects that aim to restore degraded seascapes, making them richer in biodiversity and more resilient to climate change and other pressures.
Deadline: 30 april 2024 at 22:59 GMT
Support to cultural actors addressing global issues
The current call for proposals aims to specifically focus on cultural ecosystems’ contribution to build a sense of local and regional community and on cultural workers positive role in upholding global issues such as green and digital transition with gender-based approach via cross-sectoral cooperation with civil society and other partners.
The expected outputs to be delivered by this call for proposals are:
1. Local cultural ecosystems and their community-building role are strengthened including with gender-based approach
2. Public awareness is raised on global issues such as digital and green transition via cross-sectoral cooperation with civil society with gender-based approach.
The information session will be held on 19th April 2024, registration for the session to be sent by 18th April 2024 to NEAR-CFP-181005@ec.europa.eu, indicating: name, surname, nationality and email address of the persons who are going to participate as well as their organisation (max. two participants per organisation).
Concept note deadline: 21/05/2024
Proposals are expected to enhance knowledge of the impacts of climate change on aquaculture production at environmental, social and economic levels. They should identify, forecast and assess the main effects of climate change on different aquaculture production systems and on their ecological carrying capacity. Deadline dates: two stages 22 February 2024 & 17 September 2024, both at 17 PM (Brussels time).
Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA)
PRIMA has launched new calls that address strategic research and innovation objectives through a comprehensive and interconnected response.The integration of the 'Nexus' approach aims to contribute to the overall security and sustainability of the sector in the Mediterranean region. The thematic areas for 2024 are divided into two sections comprising Research and Innovation Actions (RIA) and Innovation actions (IA):
Section 1 – Water Management in the Nexus 2024 - Sustainability of Mediterranean irrigated agriculture through the implementation of the WEFE Nexus approach (IA): projects should focus on mitigating barriers to the effective implementation of the Nexus WEFE approach for new irrigation technologies;
Section 1 – Farming Systems in the Nexus 2024 - Transformative Adaptation of Mediterranean dry farming systems using water harvesting techniques to address extreme drought in arid and semi-arid environments (IA): the topic aims to address the challenges of dryland agriculture in the arid areas of the Mediterranean by integrating traditional and modern water technologies to create sustainable and resilient agricultural systems;
Section 1 – Food Value-chain in the Nexus 2024 - Developing cost-effective and sustainable technologies adapted to Mediterranean Food Systems to decrease food loss and waste (IA): the topic aims to support the implementation and demonstration of sustainable solutions to reduce food loss and waste, save energy and improve food safety during post-harvest activities, including transport, storage and processing.
Submission deadline: Section 1 Stage 1, April 2nd 2024 (pre proposal); Section 1 Stage 2, September 25th 2024
Section 2 - Water management in the Nexus - Effective water accounting approaches under crisis conditions: climate change and external shocks (RIA): The objective is to improve water management, including in the face of climate change and geopolitical and socio-economic shocks;
Section 2 - Farming systems in the Nexus - Revitalizing agroforestry practices for sustainable land use and climate resilience in the Mediterranean Region (RIA): This topic aims to support the revitalisation of agroforestry systems;
Section 2 - Food value chain in the Nexus Leveraging urban and local food systems for sustainable food systems transformation (RIA): Proposals for this topic should aim to strengthen regulatory frameworks for urban and peri-urban agriculture, paying particular attention to the unique challenges faced in Southern Mediterranean countries.
Submission deadline: Section 2 Stage 1, April 4th 2024 (pre proposal): Section 2 Stage 2, September 26th 2024
The open call 2024 is open. Participants are invited to submit COST Action proposals contributing to the scientific, technological, economic, cultural or societal knowledge advancement and development of Europe. Multi- and interdisciplinary proposals are encouraged.
Submission deadline: 23 October 2024 at 12.00 (noon - CEST).
Second joint transnational call sustainable blue economy partnership
This second co-funded call aims to support transnational research and innovation projects (36 months) addressing one of the four priority areas below:
(1) Digital Twins of the Oceans (DTO) at regional sub basin scale;
(2) Blue economy sectors, development of marine multi-use infrastructures;
(3) Planning and managing sea-uses at the regional level;
(4) Blue Bioresources.
Deadline: pre proposal 10 April 2024; full proposal 6 November 2024.