The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership has launched its third joint transnational call entitled ‘Digitalisation and Innovation for Resilient Marine Ecosystems Businesses, and Communities to Strengthen the EU Blue Economy’s Competitiveness’.
This third co-funded call aims to support transnational research and innovation projects of 36 months duration, addressing one of the five priority areas below (subject to funded priority areas by participating funding organisations, see Annex B):
- Digital Twins of the Ocean (DTOs) at sub-basin scale
- Transitioning the blue economy sectors, and the development of the coexistence and the marine multi-use infrastructures
- Climate-Smart Planning and managing sea-uses at the regional level
- Blue Bioresources; sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, and new bio-based products
- Resilient Coastal Communities and Businesses
Projects in this 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. Applicants are requested to propose an impact plan under the theory of change (see section 2.3 – Impact of the proposals, and Annex A).
Applicants will have up to 17 November 2025 (15:00 CET) to submit their pre-proposals. A first evaluation of pre-proposals will be organised and the deadline to submit full proposals will be 17 June 2026.
Details
- Publication date
- 13 November 2025