Blue Growth (Open) Funding Opportunities - 2018 & beyond - North Sea Region
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Blue Growth (Open) Funding Opportunities – 2018 & beyond
Various Programmes: - H2020 - LIFE - EMFF - INTERREG - EUREKA
The Blue Growth Call aims at Intends to boost the blue economy by:
sustainably harvesting the
potential of resources from seas, i) Improving our integrated knowledge
about the reciprocal impact of climate
oceans and inland waters for change on marine ecosystems and
different uses and across the biological resources in order to
range of marine and maritime effectively manage their response,
mitigation and resilience capacities;
industries, while protecting
H2020 – Blue biodiversity and enhancing
climate resilience. It supports
ii) Preserving and sustainably exploiting
marine and coastal ecosystems, and
biological resources to deliver improved
sustainable growth in the marine
Growth Call and maritime sectors through a
nutrition and health;
iii) De-risking major investments and
responsible management of
2018 - 2020 marine resources for healthy,
boosting blue innovations on land and at
sea to develop new bio-based marine
value chains and open up new markets;
productive, safe, secure and
resilient seas and oceans, which iv) Developing smart and connected
are essential for thriving territories between land and sea;
ecosystems, climate regulation, v) Strengthening the international
global food security, human research and innovation cooperation
health, livelihoods and around seas and oceans, to promote a
globally sustainable blue economy.
economies. BG-01-2018: Towards a Baltic and BG-02-2018: Blue Bioeconomy
H2020 – Societal North Sea research and innovation
programme
Public-Public Partnership
Challenges pillar Activities shall focus on creating
Activities shall pool financial
resources from participating
WP: Food the necessary conditions for
coordinated research and
national and/or regional research
programmes with a view to
innovation efforts in the North Sea implementing a joint call for
security, and Baltic Sea region in proposals with EU co-funding.
cooperation with the Joint Baltic Activities shall address innovative,
sustainable Sea Research and Development sustainable and climate-friendly
Programme by bringing together possibilities to produce, harvest
agriculture and the main national funding and exploit aquatic biomass from
agencies (programme owners different trophic levels for use in
forestry, marine, and/or managers). They shall map
and engage with relevant
food and other value chains. The
technical and economic feasibility
maritime and stakeholders in the region and
especially further strengthen a
of these possibilities should be
clearly demonstrated by including
inland water possible new/successor
programme with a sound North
in the projects industry partners
that contribute a concrete and
research and the Sea component. feasible business perspective.
Budget – EUR 2.5 million Budget – EUR 8 million
bio-economy Deadline – 13 February 2018 Deadline – 13 February 2018H2020 – Societal
BG-05-2019: Multi-use of the
Challenges pillar marine space, offshore and near-
shore: pilot demonstrators
BG-07-2019-2020: The Future of
WP: Food Activities shall develop pilots by involving
industrial actors and by integrating the Seas and Oceans Flagship
security, available knowledge, technologies and
facilities, in particular capitalising on the
results of EU and national projects for the
Initiative
Proposals shall address one of the
sustainable development of multi-use platforms or co-
location of different activities in a marine
space, and relevant support offshore
following sub-topics: blue cloud
agriculture and vessels and autonomous vehicles. Pilots
could include the reconversion/reuse of
decommissioned platforms. The pilots
services, or ocean observations
and forecasting, or technologies
forestry, marine, shall aim to demonstrate in a real
environment the viability of the multi-
uses of a marine space for the output of at
for observations. Actions shall
demonstrate integration, capacity
maritime and least two economic activities (such as
renewable energy, aquaculture, marine
and (scientific, economic, etc.)
potential.
bio-resources and biotechnologies,
inland water maritime activities and related services or
tourism). Budget – EUR 6 million
research and the Budget – EUR 9 million
Deadline – 23 January 2019
Deadline – 23 January 2019
bio-economy LC-BG-09-2019: Coordination of
H2020 – Societal marine and maritime research and
innovation in the Black Sea DT-BG-04-2018-2019: Sustainable
Challenges pillar Proposals shall develop a Strategic
European aquaculture 4.0:
nutrition and breeding
WP: Food Research and Innovation Agenda
and Implementation Plan and Activities shall develop smart
contribute to the further
security, alignment and convergence of
breeding programmes and/or
tailor feeding formulas and
national research and innovation
sustainable activities and other relevant technologies for conventional and
initiatives and investments by and organic aquaculture – for marine
agriculture and with the different actors and and/or freshwater - targeting
across different sectors between animal health (contributing to
forestry, marine, the countries bordering the Black
Sea coasts and the whole EU.
disease resistance) and welfare,
different production systems,
maritime and Activities shall establish and
consolidate an operational
feeding efficiency, resilience and
climate change mitigation.
inland water network of marine and maritime
research funders and other key Budget – EUR 6 million
research and the players.
Deadline – 23 January 2019
Budget – EUR 2 million
bio-economy Deadline – 23 January 2019H2020 – Societal BG-08-2018-2019: All Coordination of marine and
Atlantic Ocean Research maritime research and
Challenges pillar Alliance Flagship innovation activities in the
WP: Food The actions shall aim at Atlantic Ocean
CSA single stage – 13 February
understanding and
security, sustainably managing the
2018; Budget – EUR 4 million
Atlantic Ocean as a whole, Assessing the status of Atlantic
sustainable through a large-scale basin marine ecosystems
agriculture and effort and its interlinks with RIA two-stage – 13 February
the adjacent areas, bringing 2018 & 11 September 2018;
forestry, marine, together and connecting
scientists, stakeholders, data,
Budget – EUR 9 million
maritime and knowledge, expertise, New value chains for
aquaculture production
capacities, and resources.
inland water Overall, activities shall RIA two-stage – 23 January 2019
& 4 September 2019; Budget –
contribute to upscale
research and the cooperation along and across
EUR 8 million
bio-economy the Atlantic Ocean and the
creation of long-term
partnerships.H2020 – Societal CE-BG-06-2019: Sustainable BG-03-2018: Sustainable
solutions for bio-based plastics harvesting of marine
biological resources
Challenges pillar on land and sea
Activities shall provide data,
WP: Food Activities shall focus on
sustainability strategies and
information and knowledge on
the potential role of
security, solutions for bio-based
products. They shall include
mesopelagic micro- and
macro-organisms for human
sustainable innovative product design and food chain and other bio-based
products and processes, while
business models facilitating
agriculture and efficient reuse and recycling
preserving biodiversity and
enhancing resilience to climate
strategies and solutions. They change and mitigation. They
forestry, marine, shall address the technical and shall address issues such as
economic barriers to bio-based food safety, fisheries
maritime and plastics recycling as regards management, fishing
established and/or alternative techniques, processing and
inland water recycling options. consumer acceptance and
marketing.
research and the Budget – EUR 9 million Budget – EUR 6 million
bio-economy Deadline – 23 January 2019 RIA two-stage – 13 February
2018 & 11 September 2018 LC-CS3-RES-1-2019-2020: LC-SC3-RES-11-2018:
Developing the next Developing solutions to
generation of renewable reduce the cost and
H2020 – energy technologies increase performance of
Activities shall focus on renewable technologies
Societal converting renewable energy Activities shall shall focus on
Challenges sources into an energy
vector, or the direct
Technology development
including reliable, sustainable
pillar application of renewable
energy sources.
and cost efficient anchoring
and mooring system,
WP: Clean and This call includes technology-
dynamic cabling, installation
techniques, and O&M
Efficient specific sub-topics concepts
Budget – EUR 20 million Budget – EUR 30 million
Energy Two-stage – 31 January 2018
Two-stage – 16 October
& 23 August 2018
2018 & 25 April 2019 LC-SC3-RES-13-2018: LC-SC3-RES-14-
Demonstrate solutions that 2019: Optimising
significantly reduce the cost manufacturing and system
of renewable power
generation operation
H2020 – Activities shall focus on Activities shall focus on new
offshore wind, development intelligent sensors, fault
Societal and validation of new
manufacturing, installation
detection and communication
systems for accurate condition
Challenges and/or operation and
maintenance techniques,
and structural health
monitoring will enable
introduction of new materials.
pillar The whole value chain,
predictive and preventive
Operation and preventive
WP: Clean and including dismantling,
recycling and retrofitting
Maintenance processes, crucial
for innovative wind farm
procedures, will be involved to
Efficient avoid over-engineering. Issues
for improved production will
control and the realization of
virtual power plants.
Energy be identified. Budget – EUR 20 million
Budget – EUR 45 million
Two-stage – 16 October 2018
Deadline – 13 January 2018 & 25 April 2019 MG-3-2-2018 : The LC-MG-1-8-2019: Retrofit
Solutions and Next Generation
H2020 – Autonomous Ship Propulsion for Waterborne
Transport
Activities shall focus on first
Societal adopters (inland waterways, Two sub-topics:
Challenges short sea shipping, ferries
coastal operations and urban
A) Develop and validate a
concept for a passenger ship
powered primarily by high
pillar water transport) develop and
demonstrate to TRL7 a fully
power fuel cells
WP: Smart autonomous vessel within a B) Develop and validate next
generation high efficiency
realistic environment propulsion systems for ships
green and Budget – EUR 20 million
using electrification and or
clean fuels and or renewable
integrated Two-stage – 30 January
energy sources
Budget – EUR 15 million
transport 2018 & 19 September 2018
Two-stage – 16 January 2019
& 12 September 2019 LC-MG-1-9-2019 :
Upgrading transport
H2020 – infrastructure in order to
monitor noise and emissions MG-2-6-2019: Moving
Societal Activities shall focus on
freight by Water: Sustainable
Infrastructure and Innovative
Challenges integrated equipment
detecting noise limits in real
Vessels
pillar time, automatic tolling
systems, new materials and
Activities shall focus on
either area a) inland
WP: Smart negative –emissions waterways or area b)
maritime transport.
solutions for infrastructures
green and applications Budget – EUR 30 million
integrated Budget – EUR 7 million Two-stage – 16 January
transport Two-stage – 16 January
2019 & 12 September 2019
2019 & 12 September 2019 MG-2-8-2019 : Innovative
applications of drones for
ensuring safety in transport
H2020 – Activities shall focus on
MG-BG-02-2019 : Ship
emission control scenarios,
Societal development and testing
technologies, operational
marine environmental impact
and mitigation
Challenges and business models for the
application of drones or Activities shall focus on the
pillar drone swarms and other
emerging technologies.
assessment of the range of
emission reduction
WP: Smart Including innovative
technologies and sustainable
technologies and designs
which may be deployed,
green and business models for pilot
services consider their cost benefits,
and emission control
integrated Budget – EUR 15 million technologies
transport Two-stages – 16 January
2019 & 12 September 2019
Budget – EUR 8 million
Deadline – 24 April 2019 MG-BG-01-2018: Unmanned
and autonomous survey
activities at sea
H2020 – Activities shall focus on
Societal Develop and demonstrate to
TRL5 an autonomous sea bed
survey vehicle, Energy and
Challenges prolusion systems capable of
supporting several months of
pillar autonomous survey operation
over large areas, minimizing
WP: Smart deep sea deployment and
recovery costs by for example
green and enabling deployment by air
and return to base features,
integrated Compatible survey equipment
Budget – EUR 8 million
transport Deadline – 04 April 2018 SC5-09-2018-2019 : New
solutions for the sustainable
production of raw materials
H2020 – Societal Activities shall focus either
on: Breakthrough concepts
Challenges pillar and solutions for sustainable
WP: Climate exploration, mining and/or
processing
Action, Digital mine, Industrial
Environment, Internet of Things platform
Resource Recovery of metals and
minerals from sea resources
Efficiency, Raw
Budget – EUR 20 million
Material
Two-stage – 27 February
2019 & 04 September 2018 SU-BES02-2018-2019-2020
: Technologies to enhance
border and external security
H2020 – Sub-topic 3 - Security on-
board passenger ships
Societal Activities shall focus on
Challenges ensuring security all along
the "life cycle" of a voyage,
pillar new technologies can be
implemented, as well as
WP: Secure security novel procedures
Society Budget – EUR 21 million
Deadline – 22 August 2019 ICT-11-2018-2019 : HPC and Big
Data enabled Large-scale Test-
beds and Applications
Activities shall focus on A) the ICT-12-2018-2020 : Big Data
development of large-scale HPC- technologies and extreme-
enabled industrial pilot test-beds scale analytics
supporting big data applications
and services by combining and/or Activities shall focus on A)
adapting existing relevant developing new big data
technologies (HPC / BD / cloud) in analytics methodologies and
order to handle and optimize the engineering solutions
H2020 – LEIT: specific features of processing very
large data sets, B) the
addressing industrial and/or
societal challenges, B) ensure
development of large-scale
ICT IoT/Cloud-enabled industrial pilot
test-beds for big data applications
coordination between the
different existing activities in
by combining and taking HPC/BD/Cloud technologies,
advantage of relevant including Public-Private
technologies Partnerships, digital innovation
hubs,
Budget – EUR 50 million (A), 40
million (B) Budget – EUR 30 million (A),
Deadline – 17 April 2018 & 14 1 million (B)
November Deadline– 17 April 2018 ICT-13-2018-2019
: Supporting the emergence of
data markets and the data CT-09-2019-2020 : Robotics in
economy Application Areas
Activities shall A) setting up Activities shall focus on A)
and operating platforms for Innovative approaches to hard
research problems in relation to
secure and controlled sharing applications of robotics in
of "closed data" (proprietary promising new areas are
and/or personal data), B) particularly encouraged, B)
H2020 – LEIT: advance the state of the art in Establish large-scale pilots capable
of demonstrating the use of
the scalability and robotics at scale in actual or highly
ICT computational efficiency of realistic operating environments;
showcase advanced prototype
methods for securing desired applications built around
levels of privacy of personal platforms operating in real or
data near-real environments and
demonstrate high levels of socio-
Budget – EUR 3 million (A), 10 economic impact.
million (B) Budget – EUR 20 million (A), 28
million (B)
Deadline – 17 April 2018
Deadline– 28 March 2019 ICT-14-2019 : Co-designing
Extreme Scale
Demonstrators (EsD)
ICT-15-2019-2020 : Cloud
Activities shall focus on Computing
research, co-design,
integration, validation and Activities shall focus on A) New
experimentation of extreme modelling techniques and
scale computing systems mechanisms are needed to
driven by a set of ambitious compose and coordinate
H2020 – LEIT: extreme data and HPC resources across
heterogeneous clouds, Edge
applications. EsDs should
ICT have the potential of being computing (fog computing)
technologies, B) Facilitate
commercialised, operating in awareness of stakeholders,
mode close to service Coordinate stakeholders in
delivery to users Cloud Computing
Budget – EUR 80 million Budget – EUR 28,5 million
Deadline – 14 November (A), 1,5 million (B)
2019 Deadline– 28 March 2019 Open to all Member States,
plus Norway, Iceland,
Liechtenstein, Switzerland.
H2020 – Who Sometimes other countries
can involved, e.g. Israel, Turkey,
etc.
participate? Exact composition varies
according to the call.
Many calls require a team of
at least three partners.H2020 – More
https://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/
information opportunities/h2020/ LIFE funds innovative
projects that demonstrate
LIFE is the EU’s financial new techniques and
instrument supporting methods. These ‘traditional’
environmental, nature style projects are
conservation and climate complemented by
action projects throughout ‘integrated’ projects that
LIFE the EU. combine LIFE funding with
other sources of support to
For the 2014-2020 funding maximise their impact over a
period, LIFE will contribute large area.
approximately EUR 3.4
billion to the protection of Anyone registered in the EU
the environment and can make a proposal for LIFE
climate. funding.
A call for proposals is
published every year.LIFE – More information http://ec.europa.eu/environment/life/index.htm
Strand 1 – DEMO PROJECTS
– 28/02/2018 at 16.00
Aims to build on the results Strand 2 - MARINE LITTER –
of relevant of research and 08/02/2018 at 16.00
innovation projects and
EMFF – support demonstration This strand aims to build on
projects that help bring
Sustainable research results to the
the results of relevant
projects whilst specifically
market and harness new
Blue Economy business and investment focusing on tackling marine
litter from sea-based sources
opportunities in the blue
Call economy Budget: between EUR
Budget: up to EUR 1.000.000, 200.000 and EUR 500.000;
with an absolute maximum EASME expects to fund
of EUR 1.500.000; EASME approximately six proposals.
expects to fund
approximately eight
proposals. Strand 3 – BLUE NETWORKS
IN THE MED - 19/01/2018 at
16.00
concrete actions are needed to Strand 4 – RESTORING
accelerate the development of MARINE ECOSYSTEMS IN
the blue economy in the THE MED - 08/02/2018 at
EMFF – Mediterranean and turn policy
objectives into actions 16.00
Sustainable Budget: the project under this strand
For specific objective a): should build on the results of
Blue Economy between EUR 400.000 and
EUR 500.000 these or other relevant
Call For specific objective b): EUR
500.000 and EUR 700.000
projects and complement
them
For specific objective c):
between EUR 300.000 and Budget: EUR 1.500.000;
EUR 400.000
EASME expects to fund
EASME expects to fund one
approximately six proposals. proposal.
EASME expects to fund at
least 1 proposal per specific
objectiveThe specific objectives of this call
are to:
collect, process, analyse and
share all environmental data Projects must undertake at
EMFF – and information on the
positive, negative or absence
least one, but preferably
most of the following
Environmental of impacts of wave and tidal
devices; activities as part of the
project implementation:
monitoring of initiate strategic research to
address gaps in knowledge to 1. Research, data collection
wave and tidal improve modelling of
potential impacts of future
and analysis
2. Environmental
deployments and to
devices development of mitigation
measures;
demonstration strategy
3. Consenting and planning
develop a more efficient
planning and consenting Budget: EUR 1.5 million
procedure based on a risk-
based approach to ocean
energy licensing.EMFF support can be provided
The EMFF is the fund for the through grants and,
EU's maritime and fisheries increasingly, through financial
policies for 2014-2020. instruments.
EMFF – It supports the implementation Projects should:
of the reformed Common
Who can Fisheries Policy (CFP) and the Make the fisheries and
aquaculture sectors more
participate? EU Integrated Maritime Policy.
sustainable
Budget - over €6 billion for
2014-2020. Conserve the marine
environment
Applicants from all EU Member
States are eligible to apply. Support growth and jobs in
coastal communities.EMFF – More information https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/sustainable-blue-economy
INTERREG – Call 6 - Preserving and
protecting the environment
Sustainable and promoting resource Specific objective: Develop
new methods for the long-
efficiency - open for the
North Sea preparation of expressions of term sustainable
management of North Sea
interest from 29 December
Region 2017. ecosystems.
Deadline – tbc. The expression of interest is the
first stage of the application
process and is submitted using a
short form in the online
monitoring system, to see
whether a project proposal fits the
programme and whether the
planned partners, activities,
budget and results seem realistic
INTERREG – The absolute minimum to deliver the idea.
The purpose of the expression of
requirement for a project
Who can partnership at the full
interest is to allow new and
especially inexperienced
application stage is two beneficiaries to experiment with a
participate? partners in two different
project proposal without making a
significant time and budget
countries. commitment.
If the programme’s
Steering Committee approves the
expression of interest, the project
will be asked to develop and
submit a full application. If this is
approved, the project will receive a
contract and can start work.INTERREG – More http://www.northsearegion.eu/ information
EUREKA Network Projects are
transnational, market-driven Open calls – all year.
innovative research and
The consortium must have at
EUREKA development projects, labelled
by EUREKA and supported by least two partners from two
Network the public. They aim to develop
marketable products, services
different EUREKA countries.
Partners can be of any type:
Projects or processes. EUREKA SMEs, large companies,
research institutions and
Network Projects are bottom-
up and cover all technological universities.
areas with a civilian purpose.Eurostars aims to stimulate Two calls per year – next
research-performing SMEs to deadline: 1 March 2018.
lead international collaborative
research and innovation The consortium must include
projects by easing access to at least two partners
EUREKA – support and funding. It is fine-
tuned to focus on the needs of
independent from each other
and established in at least
Eurostars SMEs, and specifically targets two different Eurostars
the development of new countries.
products, processes and
services and the access to The project must be
transnational and international completed in 36 months or
markets. less. EUROGIA2020 aims to
A typical cluster project is: support and promote
2-14 participants transnational, low carbon
3-4 countries energy technology projects
Average duration 30 EUROGIA2020 covers the
months entire energy mix from all
EUREKA Average project cost EUR
1.5 - 15
forms of primary energy
sources (except nuclear),
Cluster – The application process for a
through transportation and
distribution, all the way to
EUROGIA2020 EUROGIA2020 project
proposal is a two-stage
efficiency in end-use whether
industrial or for individual
submission and evaluation consumers. It also includes
procedure. transverse technologies such
as materials, IT or
Next submission deadlines: 23 manufacturing technologies
that support the energy
February 2018 and 25 May 2018 system.EUREKA – More http://www.eurekanetwork.org/ information
Can you think of a cluster organisation who would be interested? PERISCOPE - Facilitating innovation
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