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Through the Sustainable Blue Economy Finance Initiative’s Seafood Finance Working Group, co-convened with WWF, UNEP FI has developed a manual to support financial institutions in implementing the Turning the Tide and Diving Deep sector guidance, and setting targets for the Sustainable Blue Economy.

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Data Science and AI in Marine Science and Blue Economy from the International Journal of Data Science and Analytics.

The Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and Demographic Challenge (MITECO), partner of LIFE A-MAR NATURA2000, has launched activities to improve knowledge and awareness of the marine areas of the Natura 2000 Network in the Spanish Mediterranean.

The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership has issued their second joint transnational call entitled “Unified Paths to a Climate-Neutral, Sustainable, and Resilient Blue Economy: Engaging Civil Society, Academia, Policy, and Industry.

The EU Blue Economy Observatory has added a page to their platform titled "Possibilities and examples for energy transition of fishing and aquaculture sectors."

A series of publications and outputs from the European Blue Forum can now be viewed easily on the EU MSP Platform

The European Commission has launched a call for proposals to develop a demonstrator marine fishing vessel equipped with alternative propulsion technologies and innovative energy solutions. 

The European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA) will be publishing their LIFE Calls for proposals 2024 on the Funding & tender opportunities portal on 18 April 2024. 

New rules for a reinforced control system have entered into force from Tuesday, 9 January 2024. The rules modernise how fishing activities are controlled for EU vessels and those fishing in EU waters.