The Research Council of Norway

The Research Council of Norway (RCN)

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Hanna Lee Behrens

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SYSTEMIC

An integrated approach to the challenge of sustainable food systems: adaptative and mitigatory strategies to address climate change and malnutrition.

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Funding opportunities

Joint Call for Proposals on Underwater Noise in the Marine Environment

Belgium, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Poland, Romania and Spain under the framework of JPI Oceans and together with BANOS, BlueMed, NOAA and the UN Ocean Decade, are pleased to launch this call, with a deadline for proposals on 28 February 2022.

Current Phase: Concluded

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MarTERA Call 2021

The MarTERA Cofund launched a fourth joint call for transnational research and innovation projects on on maritime and marine technologies with a total funding budget of EUR 8.5 million.

Current Phase: Concluded

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Blue Bioeconomy 1st Additional Call

The call with a budget of 11 million Euro is targeted specifically on supply systems in the blue bioeconomy: logistics and transportation – from harvest to processing.

Current Phase: Concluded

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JPI Climate & JPI Oceans Joint Transnational Call on Next Generation Climate Science in Europe for Oceans

JPI Climate & JPI Oceans Joint Transnational Call on Next Generation Climate Science in Europe for Oceans. The joint call is supported by 9 countries with a total budget of 8.6 million EUR.

Current Phase: Concluded

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Blue Bioeconomy Joint Call

The joint call on the Blue Bioeconomy is supported by 16 countries with a total budget of 29.25 million EUR. The call is open for pre-proposals.

Current Phase: Concluded

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Joint call for proposals on microplastics in the marine environment

Thirteen JPI Oceans member countries together with Latvia and Brazil launch a call for transnational research projects of approx. 10.5 million EUR to study the sources, distribution and impact of microplastics in the marine environment.

Current Phase: Concluded

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Transdisciplinary Research for Ocean Sustainability Joint Call

The Belmont Forum, in collaboration with Future Earth and JPI Oceans, launches a call of circa 16 million EUR of cash and in-kind resources aiming at bringing together researchers and other expertise across the globe to innovate solutions to accelerate sustainable use of oceans and minimize the effects from global change.

Current Phase: Concluded

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BlueBio 3rd Additional Call – Amplifying project reach and knowledge impact

The BlueBio ERA-Net is launching its 3rd Additional Call in November 2022. The call is open to organisations that are part of any project consortium that is currently funded by the BlueBio ERA-Net Cofund and that are funded by one of the BlueBio partners that are providing funding to this third additional call.

Current Phase: Concluded

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Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership’s first joint transnational call

The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, a European partnership under the European Commission’s Research & Innovation Framework Programme Horizon Europe, is pleased to announce its first Joint transnational call entitled « The way forward: a thriving sustainable blue economy for a brighter future ».

Current Phase: Project selection

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Announcement: new JPI Oceans Joint Call on the ecological aspects of deep-sea mining (Closed)

With the support of Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania and the UK, JPI Oceans aims to further advance scientific knowledge in support of policy making on deep-sea mining, while facilitating the analysis of related ethical implications and societal consequences. The deadline for submitting pre-proposals in response to the joint call is 1 March 2024.

Current Phase: Concluded

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Joint Call launch: Consequences of Changing Marine Lightscapes (Closed)

JPI Oceans is delighted to launch a new Joint Call on Consequences of Changing Marine Lightscapes aiming to close critical gaps in our understanding of the drivers and ecological impacts of changing marine lightscapes resulting from both Coastal Darkening and Artificial Light at Night. A total of approximately EUR 3.7 million has been made available by the participating Funding Partners for this Joint Call. Deadline for proposals: 30 May 2024.

Current Phase: Concluded

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Blue Bioeconomy 2nd Additional Call

The call with a budget of approx. 8 million Euro, supported by 8 countries, aims to facilitate research and innovation to underpin sustainable and circular management and use of natural resources.

Current Phase: Concluded

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Linked Joint Actions

Aquatic Pollutants

In an unprecedented collaboration, the three JPIs on Water, Oceans and Antimicrobial Resistance, together with European Commission aim to tackle one of the most pressing issues facing society – the presence of pollutants and pathogens in water resources.

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Blue Bioeconomy

The BlueBio ERA-NET Cofund aimed to strengthen Europe’s position in the blue bioeconomy. It consisted of 30 partners from 17 countries, and launched a total of four calls funding 49 projects. Since 2024, JPI Oceans is following up the funded projects and activities.

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Underwater Noise in the Marine Environment

The Joint Action Underwater Noise in the Marine Environment aims to decrease the high level of uncertainty about the impact of noise through the promotion of specific lines of scientific research.

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Ecological Aspects of Deep-Sea Mining

The Joint Action Ecological Aspects of Deep-Sea Mining assesses the long-term impacts of polymetallic nodule mining on the deep-sea environment.

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Food and Nutrition Security

The Knowledge Hub on Food and Nutrition Security was established to foster transnational and multidisciplinary collaboration and networking in order to accelerate, further characterize and manage the impact of climate change on nutritional make-up of food, and to propose adaptive strategies to secure food and nutrition.

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MarTERA - ERA-NET Cofund on Marine Technologies

The H2020 ERA-NET MarTERA had an overall goal to strengthen the European Research Area (ERA) in maritime and marine technologies as well as Blue Growth, funding projects in four calls. JPI Oceans organised the final meeting of the 3rd and 4th calls in November 2023.

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Climate Science for Oceans

In a joint effort with JPI Climate, this action aimed to fund research on ocean-climate interactions, to improve climate models and inform climate change adaptation policies in Europe.

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Ecological Aspects of Microplastics

The Joint Action Ecological Aspects of Microplastics was launched as one of JPI Oceans’ pilot activities, to study the sources, distribution and impact of microplastics in the marine environment.

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Munition in the Sea

The Knowledge Hub on Munition in the Sea constituted a multi-national expert group which assessed risks, defined priorities and suggested intervention options concerning legacy munitions in the marine environment, resulting in the launch of an information portal on munition in the sea in 2024.

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Transdisciplinary Research for Ocean Sustainability

The Belmont Forum, JPI Oceans and Future Earth joined forces for a Collaborative Research Action (CRA) on Transdisciplinary Research for Ocean Sustainability, resulting in a joint call funding 13 projects.

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Ocean Carbon Capacities

The JPI Oceans Knowledge Hub on Ocean Carbon Capacities addresses the role of the Ocean in taking up carbon from the atmosphere.

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Science for Good Environmental Status

The Knowledge Hub constitutes a multi-national expert group that coordinates research and innovation to enable countries to assess and achieve Good Environmental Status.

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Changing Marine Lightscapes

The Joint Action on Changing Marine Lightscapes seeks to enhance knowledge and understanding of how marine lightscapes are changing through artificial light and turbidity, respectively, the drivers of change, the impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems, and how to manage these changes.

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Blue Carbon

The Joint Action on Blue Carbon addresses blue carbon as a measure for climate mitigation by providing spatial knowledge products to support carbon removal action and policy.

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Ocean Oxygen Loss

Throughout 2025, JPI Oceans is pursuing the topic of ocean oxygen loss, namely its causes, trends and consequences, in the form of a Scoping Action.

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Linked Strategic Engagements

Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership

JPI Oceans plays a key role in the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, referred to as Horizon Europe’s blue arm of the Green Deal.

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