The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership is a Horizon Europe co-funded partnership. It constitutes a network of 25 countries and the European Commission that enables an unprecedented effort to pool research and innovation investments and align national programmes at pan-European scale.

MCST, as one of the Research Funding Organisations launched the 2nd Joint Transnational Co-Funded Call and will be financially supporting R&I projects addressing challenges on the following priority areas:

• Digital Twins of the Oceans (DTO) at Regional Sub-basin Scale
• Blue Economy Sectors: Development of Marine Multi-use Infrastructures
• Planning and Managing Sea-uses at the Regional Level
• Blue Bioresources

Entities residing in Malta are eligible for funding, with the option of requesting up to €500,000 to participate in a SBEP proposal consortium*.

For further information on this year’s call, kindly refer to the Call Text, as well as the provisional National Rules for Participation for State Aid  and Non-State Aid .

Pre-proposal submission deadline – 10th April 2024, 15:00 CET.

Visit the below link to read further and download the application forms, while the recording of the information session held on 22nd February 2024 here below.

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