Funding opportunity

Deadline for submission of proposals: 9/1/2015

Deadline for submission of proposals: 15/01/2015 – 17h00 Brussels' Time

The aim of the exercise is to determine how current monitoring programmes and data availability meets the needs of public and private users.

Whilst considerable progress has been made in mapping the topography of Europe's offshore waters and making the data available through digital terrain models, it is intrinsically more expensive to measure the depth of water in shallow coastal waters because of instrument characteristics and because there is a need to join up with land surveys.

As announced at the Ocean Energy Forum launch in Brussels on the 4th of April, each of the Forum workstreams (technology, finance and environment / consenting) will be led by a Steering Group of approximately 10-12 experts.

Horizon 2020, the New EU Framework Programme launched this year and running until 2020, provides a wide array of funding opportunities in the research and innovation domain. Its first work programme (2014-2015) includes a targeted call for the Black Sea region.

A new call for tenders is on-line. Deadline for submission of bids: 10/01/2014.

Deadline for submission of bids: 10/12/2013

Call for proposals

The European Commission is expected to publish a call for proposals on "Guardians of the Sea" before the end of July 2013. The objective of this initiative is to promote the re-orientation of fishermen and fishing vessels towards activities outside fishing. The call will be published on the dedicated website