Malta Council for Science and Technology

Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST)

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Blue Bioeconomy 2nd Additional Call

The call with a budget of approx. 8 million Euro, supported by 8 countries, aims to facilitate research and innovation to underpin sustainable and circular management and use of natural resources.

Current Phase: Concluded

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MarTERA Call 2021

The MarTERA Cofund launched a fourth joint call for transnational research and innovation projects on on maritime and marine technologies with a total funding budget of EUR 8.5 million.

Current Phase: Concluded

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Blue Bioeconomy 1st Additional Call

The call with a budget of 11 million Euro is targeted specifically on supply systems in the blue bioeconomy: logistics and transportation – from harvest to processing.

Current Phase: Concluded

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Blue Bioeconomy Joint Call

The joint call on the Blue Bioeconomy is supported by 16 countries with a total budget of 29.25 million EUR. The call is open for pre-proposals.

Current Phase: Concluded

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Joint call for proposals on microplastics in the marine environment

Thirteen JPI Oceans member countries together with Latvia and Brazil launch a call for transnational research projects of approx. 10.5 million EUR to study the sources, distribution and impact of microplastics in the marine environment.

Current Phase: Concluded

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BlueBio 3rd Additional Call – Amplifying project reach and knowledge impact

The BlueBio ERA-Net is launching its 3rd Additional Call in November 2022. The call is open to organisations that are part of any project consortium that is currently funded by the BlueBio ERA-Net Cofund and that are funded by one of the BlueBio partners that are providing funding to this third additional call.

Current Phase: Concluded

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Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership’s first joint transnational call

The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, a European partnership under the European Commission’s Research & Innovation Framework Programme Horizon Europe, is pleased to announce its first Joint transnational call entitled « The way forward: a thriving sustainable blue economy for a brighter future ».

Current Phase: Project selection

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Joint Call launch: Consequences of Changing Marine Lightscapes (Closed)

JPI Oceans is delighted to launch a new Joint Call on Consequences of Changing Marine Lightscapes aiming to close critical gaps in our understanding of the drivers and ecological impacts of changing marine lightscapes resulting from both Coastal Darkening and Artificial Light at Night. A total of approximately EUR 3.7 million has been made available by the participating Funding Partners for this Joint Call. Deadline for proposals: 30 May 2024.

Current Phase: Concluded

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New JPI Oceans Joint Call on Science for Good Environmental Status (Closed))

With the support of Belgium, Italy, Malta and Ireland, JPI Oceans aims to advance scientific knowledge and methodologies supporting the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) implementation through process-based approaches to environmental status assessment.

Current Phase: Evaluation full proposals

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Linked Joint Actions

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Offshore Freshened Groundwater

This JPI Oceans Joint Action explores the untapped potential of Offshore Freshened Groundwater.

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Second JPI Oceans Vice-Chair elected - Corinne Muscat Terribile from Malta

28 November 2019

Corinne Muscat Terribile was appointed by the JPI Oceans Management Board as the second vice-chair for a term of three years alongside vice-chair Joachim Harms and the Chair of the Management Board Arvid Hallén.

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