The EU Mission "Restore our Ocean and Waters" aims to protect and restore the health of our ocean and waters through research and innovation, citizen engagement and blue investments until 2030. The Mission’s new approach will address the ocean and waters as one and play a key role in achieving climate neutrality and restoring nature.
The 2024 Ocean Mission Call with an overall indicative budget of €109.70 million is now open for submission and the deadline is September 18, 2024.
The Ocean Mission 2024 Call topics in the current Missions Work Programme are as follows:
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- HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01-01: European Blue Parks – Offshore marine protected areas
- HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01-02: Danube river basin lighthouse – Protection and restoration of migratory fish habitats
- HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01-03: Atlantic and Arctic sea basin lighthouse, Mediterranean Sea basin lighthouse, Baltic and North Sea basin lighthouse - Reducing the environmental impacts of fisheries on marine species and habitats
- HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01-04: Science for Community – Building the marine Citizen Science data network of the future to valorise data coming from the ocean and increase engagement
- HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-01-05: Our Blue Future – Co-designing a future vision of a restored ocean and water system in the EU by 2030 and 2050
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- HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-02-01: Community-led actions to restore our ocean, seas and waters
- HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-02-02: Support for the Coalition of waterfront cities, regions and islands for Mission Ocean and Waters
Please do not forget to register for the online international Horizon Europe Missions Brokerage Event that will be held on 21-22 May 2024, which is organized in cooperation with the online EU Missions Info Days that will take place on 25-26 April, 2024. Here you may find further information about these events.