The world faces severe challenges on all fronts that threaten to alter our way of living severely. In some cases, and especially if left unchecked, human life costs will be tremendous.
There is no better time to find solutions to these world problems than now. Europe has been making strides in becoming a global champion for the changes the world needs.
The Ocean Mission is one of the five bold European initiatives, or EU Missions, whose ambition is to bring tangible results by 2030. The EU missions are a novelty of Horizon Europe for 2021-2027 that want to turn research and innovation’s focus towards finding solutions to world challenges.
This article’s focus will be on the Ocean Mission. Let’s find out what this mission is about and EU funding opportunities to restore and protect our aquatic ecosystems.
What is the Ocean Mission?
The Ocean Mission will help achieve the water targets of the European Green Deal. Some of these targets include the protection of 30% of European seas, the restoration of marine ecosystems and 25,000km of rivers.
One of the Ocean Mission’s core objectives is to end water pollution. Some examples of how the Ocean Mission plans to achieve that are reducing plastic litter at sea, nutrient losses, and chemical pesticides. The ultimate goal is to make the blue economy climate neutral, and circular with net-zero maritime emissions.
Ocean Mission EU funding opportunities
Having seen what the Mission Ocean is and its objectives, we are giving you a list of relevant EU funding opportunities from Horizon Europe that you can find on EUcalls.
- European Blue Parks – Protection and restoration solutions for degraded coastal and marine habitats – Deadline: 27/09/2022
- Prevent and eliminate litter, plastics and microplastics: Innovative solutions for waste-free European rivers – Deadline: 27/09/2022
- Danube river basin lighthouse – Protection and restoration of wetlands, flood plains, coastal wetlands and salt marshes and their biodiversity Deadline: 27/09/2022
- Marine litter and pollution – Smart and low environmental impact fishing gears Deadline: 27/09/2022
- Mediterranean sea basin lighthouse - Actions to prevent, minimise and remediate chemical pollution Deadline: 27/09/2022
- Student and school activities for the promotion of education on ‘blue’ sustainability and the protection of marine and freshwater ecosystems Deadline: 27/09/2022
- Towards local community-driven business models: regenerative ocean farming Deadline: 27/09/2022
- Lighthouse in the Baltic and the North Sea basins – bringing sustainable algae-based products and solutions to the market Deadline: 27/09/2022
- Towards a European e-DNA library of marine and freshwater species Deadline: 27/09/2022
- Integration of biodiversity monitoring data into the Digital Twin Ocean Deadline: 27/09/2022
The deadlines for the above Ocean Mission EU funding opportunities are in September, so you should act fast.
EUcalls is the best place to find EU funding opportunities from all programmes in one place that are easily accessible. Further, you can easily find partners for EU projects since we boast a community of more than 8500 partners with extensive EU experience.
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