The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, a European partnership under the European Commission’s Research & Innovation Framework Programme Horizon Europe, is pleased to pre-announce its third Joint Transnational Call. This third call is co-branded by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development as a means of stimulating new initiatives in co-designed and co-delivered knowledge and solutions for a sustainable ocean economy as part of the Ocean Decade Action Framework.
This third co-funded call aims to support transnational research and innovation projects (for a period of 36 months) addressing one of the five priority areas below (subject to funded priority areas by participating funding organisations, see Annex):
- Priority area 1: Digital Twins of the Ocean (DTOs) at sub-basin scale
- Priority area 2: Transitioning the blue economy sectors, and the development of the coexistence and the marine multi-use infrastructures
- Priority area 3: Climate-Smart Planning and managing sea-uses at the regional level
- Priority area 4: Blue Bioresources: sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, and new bio-based products
- Priority area 5: Resilient Coastal Communities and Businesses
This co-funded call is planned to be officially launched on 15 September 2025 (15:00 CEST). Applicants will have up to 17 November 2025 (15:00 CEST) to submit their pre-proposals (provisional date). A first evaluation of pre-proposals will be organised and the deadline to submit full proposals is foreseen for June 2026.