Deadline: 30-Oct-20
EEA Grants in Portugal has launched a call for proposals for enhancing the performance of Portuguese research organizations in Blue Growth, including technological development, and promote monitoring and knowledge improvement of marine environmental issues, including natural and social capital and ecosystems services.
It is also an objective of this Call to fund projects aiming at technological development and promote cooperation between research organizations and business sector.
Thematic Areas
- Sustainable fisheries, aquaculture and blue biotechnology to improve added value from fishing products and other marine resources, considering sustainability and circular principles;
- Develop and standardize new methodologies to assess the status of Portuguese national fishery resources, not evaluated by international scientific fora;
- Approaches to develop integrated ecological-economics fisheries management.
- Improve aquaculture in open offshore conditions in Portuguese maritime areas, including bio-economic modelling;
- Marine natural capital and ecosystem services in order to fulfill gaps of data and knowledge on new areas with potential natural value for conservation (including economics, human activities pressures, legal regimes or management solutions), with emphasis on deep sea habitats, and/or restoration solutions, namely through seaforestation;
- Social impact of Blue Growth, concerning sustainable fisheries, aquaculture, namely offshore, marine biotecnology, and local communities, in Portugal;
- Climate change forecasts, climate change impacts on marine ecosystems services and natural capital, including economic impacts in Portuguese maritime zones, and climate solutions, nature marine ecosystem based solutions and blue carbon;
- Data analysis and methodologies/tools for multidimensional assessment of cumulative environmental and socioeconomic impacts to support decision making on marine spatial planning and/or on localization of maritime activities in the Portuguese maritime zones;
- New technologies for environmental monitoring and maritime surveillance, development and/or transfer, namely in deep-sea habitats and resources, to improve data and knowledge.
Funding Information
- The total amount available in the Research Call under the Blue Growth Programme is € 5.423.529.
- Minimum Grant Amount: € 500.000
- Maximum Grant Amount: : € 1.000.000
Duration
The duration of the projects’s implementation shall be no less than 24 months and no longer than 36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Project Promoters:
- Research Organizations, defined in the Community Framework for State Aid for Research and Development and Innovation (2014/C 198/01), established in Portugal.
- Natural persons are not eligible
- Eligible Project Partners:
- Any public or private entity, commercial or non-commercial, as well as nongovernmental organisation established as a legal person either in Portugal, Norway, Iceland or Liechtensteinor any international organisation or body or agency thereof, actively involved in, and effectively contributing to, the implementation of a project, (in accordance with article 7.2.2 of the EEA Grants 2014-2021 Regulation).
- Eligible Consortia
- The proposal must include:
- at least one Portuguese research organization
- at least one research organization from Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein
- It is mandatory to present letters of Commitement by all partners.
- The proposal must include:
For more information, visit https://www.eeagrants.gov.pt/en/programmes/blue-growth/calls/call-4-research/