Deadline: 27-Sep-22
The European Commission (EC) is inviting innovative and sustainable algae-based solutions and products for uses such as human consumption, animal feed, pharmaceutical applications, waste water treatment, innovative, circular and sustainable textiles applications or applications for agriculture to the market.
Proposals need to build in capacity to reach local/regional and national systems of multi-stakeholders and to enhance their interconnections at basin scale. Multi stakeholder engagements will require active participation from academia to research performing organisations, from citizens to civil society, from young innovators to start-ups, SMEs and other businesses.
Topics
Projects funded under this topic will:
- build links with other Mission activities and other relevant activities within the lighthouse and its area to maximize synergies, as well as with the other Mission lighthouses;
- build links with the Mission implementation monitoring system that will be part of the Mission Implementation Support Platform and with the Baltic and North sea basin lighthouse support facility and platform, for reporting, monitoring and coordination of all relevant implementation activities in the lighthouse area;
- support the Ocean and water knowledge system, in particular by contributing to monitoring, modelling and knowledge creation and data
Issues
The projects will address all following issues:
- Develop and demonstrate innovative and sustainable algae-based applications and assess their sustainability and circularity along the whole value chain;
- Identify technological, regulatory, economic and other barriers to bring algae-based products or solutions into the market and propose measures to overcome them, including where suitable through the use of regulatory sandboxes;
- Develop and test commercialisation strategy for algae-based innovative products or solutions for applications for human consumption, animal feed, pharmaceutical applications, water treatment, innovative, circular and sustainable textiles applications and for agriculture;
- Address cost-efficiency and cost reduction for algae transformation and processing;
- Bring together relevant actors and fora to establish an integrated, dynamic and circular industrial ecosystem around innovative algae-based products or solutions, involving when relevant, cluster organisations of industrial clusters/ecosystems and/or smart specialisation regions.
Funding Information
The check will normally be done for the coordinator if the requested grant amount is equal to or greater than EUR 500 000, except for:
- public bodies (entities established as a public body under national law, including local, regional or national authorities) or international organisations; and
- cases where the individual requested grant amount is not more than EUR 60 000 (lowvalue grant).
Expected Outcomes
Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:
- Increased market presence and further development of sustainable algae-based solutions and products for various uses and needs (e.g. human consumption, animal feed, pharmaceutical applications, waste-water treatment, innovative, circular and sustainable textiles applications or applications for agriculture);
- Enhanced knowledge base on algae-based solutions and products expected to reach European markets in the short to medium term;
- Enhanced public awareness and understanding of consumer acceptance issues of new algae based products:
- Identified and reduced market-entry barriers and barriers to uptake and scale up innovative and sustainable algae-based solutions and products
- Expansion and integration of innovative and circular industrial ecosystems and industrial clusters[1] by bringing innovative and sustainable algae-based solutions and products to the market, integrating and linking up actors throughout the value chain to explore synergies.
Eligibility Criteria
To be eligible for funding, applicants must be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.:
- the Member States of the European Union, including their outermost regions;
- the Overseas Countries and Territories (OCTs) linked to the Member States;
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eligible non-EU countries:
- countries associated to Horizon Europe
- low- and middle-income countries.
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