Green, circular and resilient harbours
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 large demonstration projects that help ports become greener, more circular and more resilient to climate impacts. Projects test and scale up real solutions in at least four ports across different European sea basins, tackling pollution, biodiversity loss, waste and climate risks. Money can also be passed on to local or regional port authorities to help them adopt these solutions.
water management · ocean marine · pollution control · environmental monitoring · circular economy · climate adaptation
Who wins this
A consortium of port authorities, local/regional public bodies, research organisations and industry partners that wants to demonstrate and scale up sustainability and resilience solutions across ports in multiple European sea basins.
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The call in detail
- Indicative grant size
- €5.5M–€6M
- 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 — from 4 countries.
- Eligible applicants
- public body, research organisation, industry partner
- Support to third parties
- Beneficiaries may provide financial support to third parties, limited to local/regional public authorities not already beneficiaries in the project, up to EUR 100,000 per third party, once per recipient during the project.
- Also required
- Demonstration activities must occur in at least 4 ports, one in each of the four specified sea/river basins, and projects must engage at least 4 'associated regions'.
- 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 Eligible 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 are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes. 5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes are 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 may provide financial support to third parties. The support to Third Parties can only be provided in the form of grants. The Financial Support to Third Parties may only be awarded to local and/or regional authorities (established as public bodies by public law and governed by public law), which are not already involved in as beneficiaries in a demonstration site of the same project and which are located in Member States/Associated Countries. The maximum amount to be granted to each Third Party is EUR 100,000, aiming at showcasing the effectiveness of solutions demonstrated by a project and develop a replication plan for their uptake in an ‘associated region’[[Regional or local authorities established as public bodies by national law and governed by public law.]]. A recipient may only benefit from this Financial Support to Third Parties once within the entire duration of the project. described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes. Specific conditions described in the topic conditions
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