Current Joint Actions
Aquatic Pollutants
In an unprecedented collaboration, the three JPIs on Water, Oceans and Antimicrobial Resistance, together with European Commission aim to tackle one of the most pressing issues facing society – the presence of pollutants and pathogens in water resources.
- Ongoing
Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) Rapid Response Action is a JPI Oceans joint effort with JPI Climate. It aims to generate a review report on knowledge about potential changes and impacts of the AMOC.
- Ongoing
Blue Bioeconomy
The BlueBio ERA-NET Cofund aimed to strengthen Europe’s position in the blue bioeconomy. It consisted of 30 partners from 17 countries, and launched a total of four calls funding 49 projects. Since 2024, JPI Oceans is following up the funded projects and activities.
- Ongoing
Blue Carbon
The Joint Action on Blue Carbon addresses blue carbon as a measure for climate mitigation by providing spatial knowledge products to support carbon removal action and policy.
- Ongoing
Changing Marine Lightscapes
The Joint Action on Changing Marine Lightscapes seeks to enhance knowledge and understanding of how marine lightscapes are changing through artificial light and turbidity, respectively, the drivers of change, the impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems, and how to manage these changes.
- Ongoing
Ecological Aspects of Deep-Sea Mining
The Joint Action Ecological Aspects of Deep-Sea Mining assesses the long-term impacts of polymetallic nodule mining on the deep-sea environment.
- Ongoing
European Marinas Network
The Joint Action aims to contribute to a better knowledge of marine ecosystems, and is centred around the research objective to develop a data-based understanding of the socio-environmental conditions within and around marinas in Europe.
- Ongoing
Ocean Carbon Capacities
The JPI Oceans Knowledge Hub on Ocean Carbon Capacities addresses the role of the Ocean in taking up carbon from the atmosphere.
- Ongoing
Ocean Oxygen Loss
Throughout 2025, JPI Oceans is pursuing the topic of ocean oxygen loss, namely its causes, trends and consequences, in the form of a Scoping Action.
- Scoping
Offshore Freshened Groundwater
This JPI Oceans Joint Action explores the untapped potential of Offshore Freshened Groundwater.
- Ongoing
Science for Good Environmental Status
The Knowledge Hub constitutes a multi-national expert group that coordinates research and innovation to enable countries to assess and achieve Good Environmental Status.
- Ongoing
Sea Level Rise
The Knowledge Hub on Sea Level Rise is a joint effort between JPI Climate and JPI Oceans operating as a networking platform facilitating the interaction between research and policy on sea level rise.
- Ongoing
Underwater Noise in the Marine Environment
The Joint Action Underwater Noise in the Marine Environment aims to decrease the high level of uncertainty about the impact of noise through the promotion of specific lines of scientific research.
- Ongoing
Past Joint Actions
Climate Science for Oceans
In a joint effort with JPI Climate, this action aimed to fund research on ocean-climate interactions, to improve climate models and inform climate change adaptation policies in Europe.
- Concluded
Cumulative Effects of Human Activities
The Cumulative Effects of Human Activities Knowledge Hub developed guidelines and common principles for decision makers on how to assess cumulative effects of human activities in a Handbook published in 2024.
- Concluded
Ecological Aspects of Microplastics
The Joint Action Ecological Aspects of Microplastics was launched as one of JPI Oceans’ pilot activities, to study the sources, distribution and impact of microplastics in the marine environment.
- Concluded
European Marine Sensor Calibration Network
The European Marine Sensor Calibration Network (2016 - 2021) was a JPI Oceans Joint Action that established a working group for calibration activities and strategic planning and support to European marine observatories.
- Concluded
Food and Nutrition Security
The Knowledge Hub on Food and Nutrition Security was established to foster transnational and multidisciplinary collaboration and networking in order to accelerate, further characterize and manage the impact of climate change on nutritional make-up of food, and to propose adaptive strategies to secure food and nutrition.
- Concluded
Integrated Assessment of New Pollutants
The Knowledge Hub on integrated assessment of new pollutants was a network consisting of selected experts and published a policy paper on Integrated Assessment of Chemical Contaminants and their Effects on the Marine Environment.
- Concluded
Intercalibration for Water Framework Directive
The scientific intercalibration exercise for the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) brought together scientific experts to perform required analyses in the most cost-efficient way.
- Concluded
MarTERA - ERA-NET Cofund on Marine Technologies
The H2020 ERA-NET MarTERA had an overall goal to strengthen the European Research Area (ERA) in maritime and marine technologies as well as Blue Growth, funding projects in four calls. JPI Oceans organised the final meeting of the 3rd and 4th calls in November 2023.
- Concluded
Multi Use of Infrastructure for Monitoring
The pilot action Multi use of Infrastructure for Monitoring in the North Sea developed pilot studies to test on current monitoring activities and resulted in a workshop between scientists and funding bodies in 2013 and additional monitoring during various International Bottom Trawl Survey (IBTS) cruises in 2014.
- Concluded
Munition in the Sea
The Knowledge Hub on Munition in the Sea constituted a multi-national expert group which assessed risks, defined priorities and suggested intervention options concerning legacy munitions in the marine environment, resulting in the launch of an information portal on munition in the sea in 2024.
- Concluded
Transdisciplinary Research for Ocean Sustainability
The Belmont Forum, JPI Oceans and Future Earth joined forces for a Collaborative Research Action (CRA) on Transdisciplinary Research for Ocean Sustainability, resulting in a joint call funding 13 projects.
- Concluded