Mission: Restore our Ocean, seas and waters by 2030 (Horizon Europe)

This Mission will provide a systemic approach for the restoration, protection and preservation of our ocean, seas and waters. The objective of this Mission is to restore, protect and preserve the health of our ocean, seas and waters by 2030. The Mission is designed to deliver on the European Union’s 2030 quantified and measurable targets for protecting and restoring ecosystems and biodiversity, for zero pollution, and for decarbonisation and net greenhouse gas emissions reduction towards climate-neutrality, within the EU’s ocean, seas and waters. The Mission will support many Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): in particular restoring our ocean and waters related actions will directly contribute to SDG 14 - Life below water and SDG 6 - Clean water and sanitation, as well as to SDG13 - Climate action.

The Mission will also contribute to the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 214 by fostering research and cooperation across European sea basins, including the EU Outermost Regions and beyond, and mobilise scientists, as well as citizens for a sustainable and healthy ocean, seas and waters.

 

HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-01: European Blue Parks – Protection and restoration solutions for degraded coastal and marine habitats

Expected Outcome: In support of the implementation of the European Green Deal and the Biodiversity Strategy, project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

  • Protected, restored and sustainably used and managed marine biodiversity, blue natural capital, marine and coastal ecosystems;
  • Reinforced ecosystem services from restored and protected marine areas;
  • Seabed protection and restoration solutions, including to preserve seabed carbon sequestration capacity;
  • Socio-economic transition processes through innovative solutions for ecosystem-based management of marine protected areas;
  • Enhanced resilience of coastal and marine ecosystems;
  • A blueprint for the extension of marine protected areas and/or for the shift of their status from “protected” to “strictly protected”;
  • A blue print for the identification of ecological corridors as part of a blue Trans-European Nature Network, and a strategy to build such a network;
  • Contribution to the Mission’s Digital Ocean and Water Knowledge system through marine observations and open data and knowledge sharing ;
  • Reinforced EU leadership in international efforts to combat biodiversity loss, in line with the EU key priorities and international commitments, including through the protection, conservation, restoration and sustainable use of marine ecosystems and biodiversity.

Budget: 17 MEUR

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HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-02: Danube river basin lighthouse – Protection and restoration of wetlands, flood plains, coastal wetlands and salt marshes and their biodiversity

Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

  • Contribute to the European Green Deal, the EU Biodiversity Strategy, the EU Zero Pollution Action Plan and the Water Framework Directive as well as other EU instruments and policies that concern freshwater ecosystem protection;
  • Contribute to the implementation of the protection and restoration of wetlands, flood plains and coastal wetlands and salt marshes under the 1971 Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance325;
  • Reverse the deterioration of the state of wetlands, flood plains coastal wetlands and salt marches in the Danube river basin and in the adjacent Black Sea area, including by developing solutions to restore lateral connectivity of rivers with their associated floodplains and wetlands;
  • Improve protection of local communities and ecosystems from extreme events (flood, droughts, storms) in the Danube river basin and its delta, in particular with nature based solutions linked to wetlands, flood plains, coastal wetlands and salt marshes;
  • Improved monitoring of carbon sequestration capacity of wetlands and coastal wetlands and salt marshes and about the impacts of the changing climate system and different management methods on the capacity of these ecosystems to sequester carbon;
  • Support the scaling up of wetlands, flood plains and coastal wetlands and salt marshes ecosystems and biodiversity restoration in the ‘associated regions’;
  • Increased share of local revenue and business activities from the restored and protected wetlands, flood plains, coastal wetlands and salt marshes ecosystems in the overall local economic activities.

Budget: 17 MEUR

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HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-03: Mediterranean sea basin lighthouse - Actions to prevent, minimise and remediate chemical pollution

Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

Innovative, reproducible solutions to reduce and remediate pollution from chemicals (such as mercury, persistent organic pollutants, plant protection products (pesticides, biocides), per- and polyfluorinated alkyl substances - PFAFs, antifoulants as well as other chemical pollutants)332 in the Mediterranean Sea basin in line with the target of reduction by at least 50% of the use and risk of chemical pesticides and to the objectives of the EU Zero Pollution Action Plan and the Convention for the protection of the Mediterranean sea against pollution and the Chemical Strategy for Sustainability;

Accelerated uptake of innovative solutions to prevent and minimize chemical pollution;

Effective monitoring of chemical pollution in line with existing methodologies under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and under the Water Framework Directive;

Support Water Framework Directive and Marine Strategy Framework Directive implementation, which provide indicators and mechanism for assessments and measures to achieve Good Environmental Status (GES) and Good Chemical Status;

Contribution to the Mission’s Digital Ocean and Water Knowledge system through marine observations and open data and knowledge sharing;

Empowered citizens taking action against pollution.

Budget: 17 MEUR

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HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-04: Prevent and eliminate litter, plastics and microplastics: Innovative solutions for waste-free European rivers

Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:

  • Reduced pollution from litter, plastics and microplastics in European rivers;
  • Accelerated uptake of innovative solutions to prevent and minimize pollution of rivers by litter, plastics and microplastics;
  • Effective monitoring of litter, plastics and microplastics in freshwaters to implement the Water Framework Directive and Marine Strategy Framework Directive;
  • Reduction by at least 50% plastic litter at sea and by at least 30% microplastics released into the environment;
  • Contribution to the Mission’s Digital Ocean and Water Knowledge system through marine observations and open data and knowledge sharing.

Budget: 10 MEUR

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HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-05: Marine litter and pollution – Smart and low environmental impact fishing gears

Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all the following expected outcomes:

  • Portfolios of solutions for low-environmental impact fishing gears and minimised end-of life waste, including through recycling and reuse;
  • Reduced marine pollution caused by waste from fishing activities, in line with among others the Single Use Plastic Directive and the Port Reception Facilities Directive;
  • Preserved marine fauna and reduction of accidental catches (mainly of Endangered, Threatened and Protected (ETP) species), including the harmful effects of ghost fishing gears;
  • Improved and preserved marine habitats, including seabed, and reduced negative effects of abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gears;
  • Improved mapping, tracking and recovery of abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded fishing gears.
  • Contributed to the implementation of EU legislation, e.g.: the Directive on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment (Directive 2019/904)31;
  • Increased users’ choices and responsible user behaviours

Budget: 10 MEUR

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HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-06: Lighthouse in the Baltic and the North Sea basins – bringing sustainable algae-based products and solutions to the market

Expected Outcome: 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 clusters345 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.

Budget: 17 MEUR

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HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-07: Integration of biodiversity monitoring data into the Digital Twin Ocean

Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

  • Identified relevant “sleeping” or inaccessible biodiversity data and establishment of partnerships with data owners to unlock data on marine life, and human activities that affect it, through the digital ocean twin;
  • Harmonised data, protocols and vocabularies, amongst biodiversity monitoring networks and actors, including citizens science programmes, and national authorities monitoring programmes;
  • Secured, sustained and reliable data flows from biodiversity monitoring programmes, including research projects, national and international monitoring programmes, into DTO data repositories, from data collectors to data integrators, and their integration/assimilation in existing models;
  • Economies of scale and enhanced standardisation through pilot sea-basin scale monitoring for species across the trophic chains (plankton, including microbes, fishes, marine mammals, reptiles and birds, other if considered important);
  • Tools to better support assessment of multiple human activities pressures on biodiversity through exploring and assessing different modes of operation, different policies development and their effect on biodiversity;
  • Support to the Mission’s Blue Parks and biodiversity actions in the Mission Lighthouses.

Budget: 10 MEUR

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HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-08: Student and school activities for the promotion of education on ‘blue’ sustainability and the protection of marine and freshwater ecosystems

Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

  • Increased mobilisation and engagement of children and youth in primary and secondary schools across the EU and in the Associated countries in the implementation of Mission objectives;
  • Student and school projects implementing the Mission objectives and engaging and mobilising students, teachers and schools in the pursuit of ocean and water literacy, sustainability and Mission objectives, that at the same time contribute to the growing Network of European Blue Schools established under the EU4Ocean Coalition for Ocean Literacy;
  • Increased ocean and water literacy among children and youth, teachers and schools, improved understanding of the value and of ocean and waters and enhanced sense of responsibility among the youth and teachers towards this planet and its boundaries;
  • Ramp up accreditation of schools in the Network of European Blue Schools and engagement in their related activities, based on methodologies of Open Schooling, engaging with the community and communicating the results of their projects and in the implementation of Mission objectives and bring the ocean and water into the classroom at the EU- and Associated countries level.

Budget: 3 MEUR

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HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-09: Towards a European e-DNA library of marine and freshwater species

Expected Outcome: Project results are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

  • Contribution to the development of the next generation marine monitoring programmes and mapping initiatives that focus on collecting and analysing environmental DNA-of marine and freshwater species;
  • Assessment of all relevant activities, actions and projects that entail collecting and analysing environmental DNA from marine and freshwater species implemented in the European Union and in the Associated countries for their synergies;
  • Assessment of the feasibility of creation of an integrated European e-DNA library of all marine and freshwater species that would be based on FAIR principles and publicly available and support marine biodiversity monitoring programmes and mapping initiatives. Compatibility with the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EmodNet) and the future Ocean and Water knowledge system (Digital Twin Ocean) will be part of the assessment;
  • Assessment of ongoing international efforts on standards and interoperability of data, methods, techniques, etc.
  • Fair and equitable sharing of the benefits from the use of marine genetic resources linked to biodiversity, in line with the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030;
  • Promote synergies and harmonisation between projects and initiatives to collect and analyse DNA of marine and freshwater species for their future successful scale up.

Budget: 2 MEUR

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HORIZON-MISS-2022-OCEAN-01-10: Towards local community-driven business models: regenerative ocean farming

Expected Outcome: Projects are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

  • Evidence-based business plans for the development of entrepreneurship and successful local community-driven regenerative ocean farming initiatives;
  • Job creation and new skills development;
  • Provision of new ecosystem services from marine and coastal ecosystems;
  • Preserved local marine and costal ecosystems, biodiversity and genetic diversity;
  • Increased resilience of coastal and marine areas to climate change and generation of positive climate change mitigation effects;
  • Improved marine and coastal habitats, biodiversity and enhanced conservation capacity;
  • Increased knowledge on impact of regenerative ocean farming on local marine and coastal environment conditions.

Budget: 3 MEUR

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Abgabe

27.09.2022

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