Circularity of seafood supply chain
Supporting the implementation of the Restore our Ocean and Waters Mission · HORIZON-IA · TRL 6–8 · Needs partners
What this call funds
This call funds projects that make Europe's fish and seafood industry less wasteful and more sustainable by turning fish waste and by-products into useful materials, developing better alternative feed ingredients, and using digital tools to track and reduce pollution. Projects must demonstrate their solutions actually work in real-world conditions across at least three use cases, and should also create jobs and economic benefits for local coastal communities.
circular economy · bioeconomy · aquaculture fisheries · waste recycling · environmental monitoring · sustainable materials
Who wins this
A multi-partner consortium spanning the seafood supply chain (producers, processors, tech providers, researchers) that wants to test and scale circular-economy solutions for fisheries or aquaculture waste in a specific European sea basin.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €7.2M–€7.7M
- Funding model
- Budget-based — reimbursement of actual eligible costs
- Submission
- Single-stage submission (full proposal at once)
- Type of action
- HORIZON Innovation Actions
- Partners
- Required. The call asks for a consortium — a group applying together, typically 3+ organisations from 3+ countries.
- Also required
- Each proposal must address only one of the four Mission sea/river basins (Atlantic and Arctic, Mediterranean, Baltic and North Sea, or Danube including Black Sea) and demonstrate solutions in real conditions through at least three use cases; funding will ensure at least one top-ranked proposal per basin, and beneficiaries collecting in-situ marine data must share it openly via EMODnet under FAIR principles.
- Eligible countries (45)
- Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, IL, TR, UA, RS, MK, ME, AL, BA, XK, GE, AM, MD, TN, NZ
Read the full conditions from the official call ›
General conditions 1. Admissibility conditions: Proposal page limit and layout described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes. Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System. 2. Eligible countries described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide. 3. Other Eligibility Conditions described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes. 4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds To ensure a balanced portfolio covering the 4 different Mission basins[[For the purposes of Mission Ocean and waters, Member States/Associated Countries, are considered to be part of a given sea/river basin if they have a coast/riverbank on the relevant sea/river or contain river basins flowing into the relevant sea]] (1. Atlantic and Arctic sea basin, 2. Mediterranean Sea basin, 3. Baltic and North Sea basin, 4. Danube River basin, including Black Sea), grants will be awarded to applications not only in order of ranking but at least also to one proposal that is the highest ranked within each sea basin, provided that the applications attain all thresholds. described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual. 5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes. 6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional obligations regarding open science practices: if projects collect in-situ data and marine observations, beneficiaries must make them openly available through the European Marine Observation and Data network (EMODnet), based on the FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) principles. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions
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