Innovative multi-use projects combining offshore renewable energy with other activities and/or with nature protection in the Atlantic
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Programme Name
Programme Description
The EMFAF supports the EU common fisheries policy (CFP), the EU maritime policy and the EU agenda for international ocean governance. It provides support for developing innovative projects ensuring that aquatic and maritime resources are used sustainably.
The fund helps achieve sustainable fisheries and conserve marine biological resources. This leads to:
- food security through the supply of seafood products
- growth of a sustainable blue economy
- healthy, safe and sustainably managed seas and oceans
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Call
Summary
This call topic supports the Atlantic Maritime Strategy priority to develop marine renewable energy. The specific objective is to support the development and uptake of multi-use between marine renewable energies (especially emerging ones such as wave, tidal and floating wind) and other blue economy activities and/or with nature protection (e.g. marine protected areas).
Detailed Call Description
Under this call Topic 1, it is seek to fund projects that will develop multi-use integrated solutions to offshore renewable energy developments. The projects should bring a radical change from the concept of exclusive resource rights to the inclusive sharing of resources by one or more uses. The possible activities to consider for co-existence with marine renewable energy include, amongst others: sustainable aquaculture, ocean observation, fisheries, maritime transport and tourism.
Activities will vary depending on the maturity of the multi-use concept targeted in the proposal. In their proposals, applicants will describe clearly the chosen concept and its maturity level and the relevant activities they will implement to develop the solutions.
Projects must focus on a specific multi-use, integrated solution including justification of the choice in terms of the expected economic, environmental and social benefits. Only activities that make a substantive contribution to environmentally sustainable objectives and that do no significant harm to any other environmental objectives will be considered in the scope of this call for proposals. The possible activities to consider for co-existence with marine renewable energy include, amongst others: sustainable aquaculture, ocean observation, fisheries, maritime transport and tourism. Projects and their activities must focus on the Atlantic and include at least two EU Member States in the Atlantic Maritime Strategy (France, Ireland, Portugal and Spain).
- Proposals focusing on early stage concepts will include activities to develop the concept and business case.
- Proposals focusing on more mature concepts will include activities to demonstrate the benefits of the solution and bring it closer to market-readiness.
- All proposals will include activities to monitor and improve the environmental performance of the proposed multi-use, offshore renewable energy solutions.
- All proposals should include additional, complementary activities (at least one) that support the main activities and the call topic objectives.
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
80%
Thematic Categories
- Energy
- Environment and Climate Change
- Fisheries/ Aquaculture and Maritime Policy
Eligibility for Participation
- Central Government
- International Organisations
- Large Enterprises
- Private Bodies
- Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
- State-owned Enterprises
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Proposals must be submitted by a consortium of at least two applicants (beneficiaries; not affiliated entities), which complies with the following conditions:
- Minimum two entities from two different eligible EU Member States participating in the Atlantic Maritime Strategy; and
- At least one for-profit, private-sector business entity in the offshore renewable energy sector.
- The coordinator must be established in an EU Member State participating in the Atlantic Maritime Strategy (France, Ireland, Portugal and Spain).
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Call Closing Date
National Contact Point(s)
For more information, please contact the EU Contact Point.
EU Contact Point
Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries
https://ec.europa.eu/oceans-and-fisheries/contact-form_en
European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA)
https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/contact-0_en
CINEA-EMFAF-CALLS@ec.europa.eu
Telephone: +32 (0)2 299 5252