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1 | Project Acronym | Project Title | Project Description | Funding Programme / Body | Total Budget | Start | End | Information Link | THEMES / If you require additional information, please reach out to: info@bluemissionbanos.eu | ||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Education | Citizen Engagement | Citizen Science | Environment | Env. Monitoring | MSP | Multi-Use | Algae | Macroalgae | Microalgae | Seagrass | Blue Biotechnology | Mussels | Other Shellfish | Fish Aquaculture | Fishery | Maritime Cultural Heritage | Reed/Beach Cast | Shipping | Tourism | Marine Litter | Other | |||||||||
3 | - | Hypolimnetic Withdrawal and Treatment pilot at Kymijärvi | Water quality in Lake Kymijärvi has been bad for many decades, due to nutrient inputs from the local area and recycling of nutrients in the lake itself. In summer the water is stratified with a warm layer at the surface and a colder layer close to the bottom. This colder layer is often lacking oxygen and contains high concentrations of nutrients, especially phosphorus. The project‘s goal is to purify the deep, nutrient rich water and improve lake water quality, but also to test the potential for phosphorus recovery and circular economy. | - | 800,000 € | 2018 | 2024 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | - | Impacts of invasive alien species and climate change on marine ecosystems in Estonia | This project will investigate ways to control the spread of invasive species in the marine environment and to increase the resilience of ecosystems to climate change, make recommendations for the development of sustainable thematic solutions and develop methodologies for future work. In addition to the above, dissemination of knowledge on alien species and climate change impacts, and training of stakeholders on how to identify impacts and implement mitigation measures will be an important part of the project. | - | 430,000 € | 2021 | 2024 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
5 | - | Natural resource planning for state-owned marine areas | The project is long-term strategic planning for the sustainable use of state-owned land and water areas. It is done together with stakeholders. Project area is 2 800 000 ha. The plan will include both protecting biodiversity as well as the economocal use of the area for fishing, mineing, fish farming, marine wid power, tourism, military purposes, marine transportation, etc. | - | 350,000 € | 2022 | 2023 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
6 | 4S | Satellite Seafloor Survey Suite | Ocean ecosystems and, more specifically, seabed activity can be extremely important to ocean surveillance. Thus, methods for seabed surveillance directed at benthic habitats, morphology, depth and other changes are important. 4S will work to reinforce the current toolset for seabed observation. It will do this by developing a cloud-based software dubbed Satellite Seafloor Survey Suite that would utilise satellite data and drone imagery to give users info concerning seabed activity. | Horizon 2020 | 2,672,650 € | 2020 | 2023 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
7 | ACTNOW | Advancing understanding of Cumulative Impacts on European marine biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services for human wellbeing | ACTNOW advances the state-of-the-art in understanding and forecasting of the cumulative impacts of climate change and interacting drivers on marine systems. The program provides solutions options to halt the loss of biodiversity, to restore and protect habitats and ecosystem processes, and to safeguard the contributions of marine areas to human well-being. For example, it will develop monitoring methods based on new biologging technology and decision support tools for regulators. | Horizon Europe | 10,632,000 € | 2023 | 2027 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
8 | AdaptEst | Implementation of national climate change adaptation activities in Estonia | The general objective of the Estonian Development Plan for Climate Change Adaptation is to increase the readiness and capacity of the regional and local level of the state of Estonia to adapt to the effects of climate change. Adaptation measures are directed to the increase of the awareness and resilience as well as to the implementation of the principle of caution. | LIFE | 18,859,312 € | 2023 | 2032 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
9 | ADRIENNE | Increasing capacity of environmental protection to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem performance in the Gulf of Finland under multiple human uses and climate change pressure | In the ADRIENNE project we assess how alternative human uses either alone or combined with other pressures may affect diversity, ecosystem functioning and services in the highly utilized and sensitive transboundary waterbody of the Gulf of Finland. In order to achieve this goal, we will combine novel spatial modelling products of species, habitats and fishery-related ecosystem services with expert-based assessment of synergistic effects of human uses on the biota and vice versa. | Interreg | 551,006 € | 2019 | 2022 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
10 | ALFAwetlands | Wetland restoration for the future | Wetlands have enormous potential for carbon sequestration and adaptation, but gaps in knowledge limit their efficient use and options in the context of land use, land-use change and forestry. ALFAwetlands aims to help expand the geospatial knowledge base for these ecosystems. Experimental data and living labs will be leveraged to integrate interdisciplinary and multi-actor research on associated ecological, environmental, social and economic issues. | Horizon Europe | 7,967,119 € | 2022 | 2026 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Algae2Future | Algae2Future | By targeting microalgae, Algae2Future intends to explore their potential to be low-carbon-footprint healthy ingredients for future food and feed. It aims to lay the foundation for industrial microalgae production in Norway, utilizing natural resources and waste streams from existing value chains within agriculture, aquaculture and process industry. It will develop three approved microalgal value chains demonstrating the potential of uses of algal biomass rich in starch, protein and omega-3-fatty acids. | Research Council of Norway | - | 2017 | 2022 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
12 | AlgaeFOOD | Algae as a Healthy Food | Algaefood aims to anchor algae more strongly in regional food culture. More acceptance of algae needs to be created as an innovative food and a sustainable and healthy alternative to animal food. The project aims to bring all involved parties together to establish algae as a new food in the region. And with tailored marketing concepts, the project wants to target our consumers' preferences and bring them closer to the benefits of algae. | Interreg | 1,921,257 € | 2023 | 2026 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | AlgaePro BANOS | Accelerating algae product developments in Baltic and North Sea | AlgaeProBANOS addresses a challenge in the Baltic and North Sea (BANOS) area: how to harmonise economic development with social and environmental goals in line with the Mission Ocean. It brings together 26 experts and industry partners from the BANOS area and beyond, to accelerate product development and market access of sustainable algae solutions. It will support 6 business pilots, SMEs and startups, to bring eight algae products to the market. | Horizon Europe | 12,027,291 € | 2023 | 2027 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
14 | ALGEKYLLING | Microalgae contributions to future protein and fatty acid rich feed for Norwegian chicken at industrial scale | Norsk Kylling will replace imported soya in chicken feed with proteins based on microalgae biomass produced in Norway. The transition from lab-scale production to industrial pilot scale production will be managed by Algæ. The project will enable the production, at pilot-scale, of a targeted protein- and PUFA rich microalgae biomass as ingredients in chicken feed. In parallel with this project development, Algæ will lay the fundaments for industrial-scale microalgae cultivation. | Research Council of Norway | - | 2021 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
15 | ALLIANCE | Baltic Blue Biotechnology Alliance | The project will bring together blue biotechnology actors from across the Baltic Sea Region to develop innovative marine biotechnology based products and services in response to the EU Sustainable Blue Growth Agenda for the Baltic Sea Region—a blueprint for harnessing the region’s strengths to boost innovation and growth in the maritime area. It aims to empower the participants to reach the critical mass required for action and global competitiveness by pooling the national capabilities. | Interreg | 3,390,789 € | 2016 | 2019 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | ALLIANCE+ | Baltic Blue Biotechnology Alliance+ | ALLIANCE+ aims to operationalize this business plan by opening the ALLIANCE network beyond the reach of the limited partnership of the ALLIANCE main stage project. Thus all interested blue biotechnology actors will have the opportunity to benefit from the ALLIANCE main project experience. At the same time the new actors will in turn also benefit the existing members and cases as it widens the area of expertise and resources. | Interreg | 509,640 € | 2019 | 2021 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | ANERIS | operAtional seNsing lifE technologies for maRIne ecosystemS | ANERIS will develop cutting-edge scientific tools and methods for marine life sensing, integrating genomics, bio-optics, and participatory sciences. The project will involve stakeholders in a codesign framework and introduce the concept of Operational Marine Biology as a biodiversity information system. The project will develop a training programme for stakeholders and promote innovation and knowledge sharing among the academy, industry, governments, and civil society. | Horizon Europe | 9,999,665 € | 2023 | 2026 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
18 | APRIORA | Improved Risk Assesment for Strategic Water Management to Reduce Micro-Pollutant Emissions in the Baltic Sea Region | In the project APRIORA, environmental protection agencies and wastewater treatment plants get equipped with a GIS-based risk assessment system to monitor and model concentrations of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in order to improve water management and reduce emissions. | Interreg | 2,400,000 € | 2023 | 2026 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | AQUA-FAANG | Advancing European Aquaculture by Genome Functional Annotation | Maintaining fish health is vital for effective production, but infectious diseases are a constant threat. AQUA-FAANG aims to improve our understanding of genome function and of the usage of genotype-to-phenotype prediction in the six most important fish species in European aquaculture. Understanding how the complete genome of the fish is controlled may address key issues such as infectious diseases and can subsequently lead to sustainable and profitable aquaculture production. | Horizon 2020 | 6,355,182 € | 2019 | 2023 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
20 | AQUA-LIT | Preventive Measures for Averting the Discarding of Litter in the Marine Environment from the Aquaculture Industry | AQUA-LIT will develop a toolbox of innovative ideas and methodologies to prevent marine littering from aquaculture activities and to remove litter from aquaculture facilities. AQUA-LIT will provide the aquaculture sector with a toolbox that can showcase existing tools, case studies, best practices, as well as a database that creates links between stakeholders for addressing the three main components of marine littering: prevention and reduction, monitoring and quantification, and removal and recycling. | European Maritime and Fisheries Fund | 587,250 € | 2019 | 2020 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
21 | AQUABEST | Innovative practices and technologies for developing sustainable aquaculture in the Baltic Sea region | One of Aquabest's objectives is to improve spatial planning to create new sustainable aquaculture. Aquabest will produce a spatial planning manual for aquaculture. The manual, intended for local, regional and national authorities in the region, will show a path to new sustainable, conflict free locations for aquaculture farms. At these newly discovered sites new farming technologies, such as robust offshore cages and mussel farms will be adapted. | Interreg | 3,744,989 € | 2011 | 2013 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
22 | AQUABIOPROFIT | AQUAculture and Agriculture BIOmass side stream PROteins and bioactives for Feed, FITness and health promoting nutritional supplements | AQUABIOPROFIT aims to promote utilisation of EU aquaculture, fisheries and agriculture side streams in feeds and nutritional supplement products promoting fitness and health. It will develop side stream biomass processing technologies to up-concentrate nutrients and bioactives maintaining product quality and minimising waste. Info material will be created for raising awareness on circular economy and promote acceptance for side stream bio-based products in end markets. | Horizon 2020 | 4,057,392 € | 2018 | 2022 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
23 | AQUACROSS | Knowledge, Assessment, and Management for AQUAtic Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services aCROSS EU policies | AQUACROSS aims to support EU efforts to enhance the resilience and stop the loss of biodiversity of aquatic ecosystems as well as to ensure the ongoing and future provision of aquatic ecosystem services. It focuses on advancing the knowledge base and application of the ecosystem-based management concept for aquatic ecosystems by developing cost effective measures and integrated management practices. | Horizon 2020 | 6,913,116 € | 2015 | 2018 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | AQUAEXCEL3.0 | AQUAculture infrastructures for EXCELlence in EUropean fish research 3.0 | AQUAEXCEL3.0 aims to further boost the European aquaculture sector. Integrating top-class research facilities from biology to technology in all types of rearing systems, and covering all major farmed species, it will expand access to high-quality services and resources. The project will boost excellent research and sustainable innovation for both public and private sectors working in aquaculture. The scope includes shellfish, macroalgae and recyclers to move towards a more sustainable aquaculture. | Horizon 2020 | 9,981,122 € | 2020 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
25 | AQUAFIMA | Integrating Aquaculture and Fisheries Management towards a sustainable regional development in the Baltic Sea Region | The overall objective of AQUAFIMA is to integrate aquaculture and fisheries management towards a sustainable regional development in the BSR, applying an eco-system friendly approach. Specifically, the project will review current national/EU fishery policies and discuss alternative approaches, such as an area-based fisheries management system, with stakeholders and policy-makers etc. The project brings together 12 partners from 7 countries, representing the political, academic and economic sector. | Interreg | 2,499,083 € | 2011 | 2013 | Learn More | |||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | AquaIMPACT | Genomic and nutritional innovations for genetically superior farmed fish to improve efficiency in European aquaculture | AquaIMPACT is a major effort to integrate the fields of fish breeding and nutrition to increase the competiveness of EU's aquaculture of Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout, gilthead seabream and European seabass, to ensure food and nutrition security and to satisfy consumer demands for high-quality seafood with limited environmental impact. These four species together represent 75% in volume and 89% in value of the total farmed finfish production. | Horizon 2020 | 6,726,811 € | 2019 | 2023 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
27 | AquaINFRA | Infrastructure for Marine and Inland Water Research | AquaINFRA will develop a virtual environment equipped with FAIR multidisciplinary data and services to support marine and freshwater scientists and stakeholders in their restoration efforts. This virtual environment will allow stakeholders to store, share, access, analyse and process research data across research infrastructures, disciplines and national borders based on the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) and the other existing operational dataspaces. | Horizon Europe | 7,601,825 € | 2023 | 2026 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
28 | AquaSpace | Ecosystem Approach to making Space for Aquaculture | AquaSpace has the goal of providing increased space for aquaculture to allow increased production. The project will achieve this by identifying the key constraints experienced by aquaculture development, taking into account relevant factors and advised by a Reference User Group. It will then map these constraints against a wide variety of methods that have already been developed in national and EU projects for spatial planning purposes, including some that have been designed for aquaculture. | Horizon 2020 | 3,625,581 € | 2015 | 2018 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
29 | AquaVIP | Aquaculture virtual career development platform for the South Baltic region | The overall idea of the project is to enhance the aquaculture labour market by developing better capacities of labour force through cross-border trainings and facilitating networks. AquaVIP will result in an increased number of skilled professionals and future employees in the blue economy sector, and the development of human resource capacity of the target group: students and companies along the aquaculture value chain. | Interreg | 1,053,108 € | 2019 | 2023 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
30 | AquaVitae | New species, processes and products contributing to increased production and improved sustainability in emerging low trophic, and existing low and high trophic aquaculture value chains in the Atlantic | AquaVitae will work towards sustainable aquaculture production and the development of new low trophic species in aquaculture value chains, including macroalgae, IMTA, shellfish, echinoderms and finfish. Research activities will cover the whole aquaculture value chain, from analyzing market potential of new products to the policy framework. AquaVitae plans to set up an industry and research network with particular attention on social responsibility and community outreach. | Horizon 2020 | 8,748,035 € | 2019 | 2023 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
31 | ASTEASIER | Novel and sustainable biotechnological approaches for astaxanthin and ketocarotenoids production | Astaxanthin is a natural carotenoid pigment found in sea microalgae, salmon, and trout. It is believed to have antioxidant and antihypertension properties but is mainly used in animal feed for pigmentation. ASTEASIER project aims to develop novel methods to produce and extract astaxanthin from microalgae. The idea is to establish a sustainable industrial platform based on engineered microalgae for producing high-value bio-based products for human and animal nutrition. | Horizon Europe | 1,982,688 € | 2023 | 2024 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
32 | B-USEFUL | User-oriented Solutions for Improved Monitoring and Management of Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in vulnerable European Seas | B-USEFUL will develop user-oriented tools and solutions to monitor, assess and protect marine biodiversity. It will first identify end-user needs and work with experts to co-develop biodiversity indicators, targets and scenarios. The project will also carry out model forecasts of changes in biodiversity and ecosystem services. The support tools will assist end users in prioritising conservation efforts in biodiversity hotspots, or other high-risk areas requiring a stricter degree of protection. | Horizon Europe | 4,609,981 € | 2022 | 2026 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | BALTHEALTH | Baltic Sea multilevel health impacts on key species of anthropogenic hazardous substances | BALTHEALTH is to asses the impact of multiple stressors on the ecological functioning and overall health of the Baltic ecosystem. The project has a strong focus on the impact of anthropogenic hazardous substances (AHSs) on all levels of the Baltic ecosystem, and therefore requires a holistic approach to assess environmental health. The overall objective is to investigate how multiple natural and anthropogenic stressors have been impacting key ecological and commercial species within the Baltic food web. | BONUS | 2,800,000 € | 2017 | 2020 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
34 | Baltic Blue Growth | Initiation of full scale mussel farming in the Baltic sea | One of the most serious challenges the Baltic Sea is facing is eutrophication, the enrichment of ecosystems by chemical nutrients. The objective of the project is to remove nutrients from the Baltic Sea Region by farming and harvesting blue mussels. This may be a stand-alone measure to counteract eutrophication, but can also become a business model for the feed industry and be used in symbiosis with fish farms. | Interreg | 4,651,205 € | 2016 | 2019 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Baltic Data Flows | Baltic Data Flows | The Baltic Data Flows project seeks to enhance the sharing and harmonisation of data on the marine environment originating from existing sea monitoring programmes, and to move towards service-based data sharing. In particular, open datasets on the Baltic Sea marine environment will be made available by HELCOM to a wider community such as researchers, NGOs, the private sector and the European open data ecosystem. | Connecting Europe Facility | - | 2020 | 2022 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
36 | BALTIC LINes | Coherent Linear Infrastructures in Baltic Maritime Spatial Plans | The project seeks to increase transnational coherence of shipping routes and energy corridors in Maritime Spatial Plans (MSP) in the Baltic Sea Region. This will prevent cross border mismatches and secures transnational connectivity, as well as efficient use of Baltic Sea space. The project helps develop the most appropriate framework conditions for Blue Growth activities (e.g. maritime transportation, offshore energy exploitation, coastal tourism etc.) for the coming 15 years. | Interreg | 3,206,670 € | 2016 | 2019 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Baltic MUPPETS | Baltic Mussel Products for Pet-foods | The main objective of Baltic MUPPETS is to develop new value chains for small mussels (1-3 cm) from the Baltic Sea for pet food and to develop innovative technologies for farming, harvesting, and processing mussels. The project will enable a new circular economy in the Baltic Sea Region as well as provide support to mussel farmers across Europe to develop, diversify, and scale their existing businesses. | Interregional Innovation Investments (I3) | 7,341,572 € | 2022 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Baltic Sea2Land | Fostering integrated governance for the joint sustainable use of human and natural capital in the near shore zone | The complexity of land-sea interactions and overlapping jurisdictions of various public authorities calls for multi-level governance to balance different interests and drivers in coastal areas in order to achieve European Green Deal and Sustainable Blue Economy. Sea2Land Navigator will help balance interests to aid viable coastal development and sustainable use of human and natural capital in the Baltic Sea Region and foster integrated governance via multi-dimensional collaborations. | Interreg | 3,447,156 € | 2023 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | Baltic Seagrass | Baltic Seagrass | Baltic Seagrass Project works to restore seagrass meadows, formed by common eelgrass – one of the key species in the Baltic Sea. The meadows will be restored by transplanting common eelgrass seedlings to places where the plant has once grown but has since disappeared. Common eelgrass provides a habitat for dozens of other species in the Baltic Sea. By restoring the seagrass meadows, we are combating nature loss in the Baltic Sea. | - | 200,000 € | 2023 | 2024 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | BALTICBLUEMARINAS | Remote Baltic Marinas as Drivers for Sustainable Coastal and Maritime Tourism Development | BalticBlueMarinas aims to capitalise the sustainable use of marinas as key actors of tourism destinations in the Baltic Sea region. Marinas are seen as separate entities in relation to other actors of the tourism sector, even if they are an essential part of the overall tourism package. The goal is to strengthen the cooperation between actors to foster growth, by integrating marinas into the regional tourism development and recreational boating with other tourism sectors. | Interreg | 50,000 € | 2020 | 2021 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
41 | BalticReed | BalticReed | BalticReed aims to recycle nutrients from eutrophicated coastal waters of the Baltic Sea to land. At the same time, the project promotes the sustainable utilisation of reed biomass as a raw material for diverse purposes, for example replacing peat. BalticReed seeks to accelerate the utilization and further processing of the reed biomass; to boost harvesting entrepreneurship; and to build business models that allows us to utilize reedbeds sustainably and in a market-driven manner. | Interreg | 2,992,145 € | 2023 | 2026 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
42 | BalticRIM | Baltic Sea Region Integrated Maritime Cultural Heritage Management | BalticRIM aims to integrate management of cultural heritage in and at the Baltic Sea into maritime spatial planning. Coastal and underwater cultural heritage such as ship wrecks and archaeological sites can help brand cities and regions, attract talent and foster tourism. Currently, such heritage sites are not systematically included in maritime spatial plans. The project helps to identify and designate maritime cultural heritage zones by bringing heritage managers together with spatial planners. | Interreg | 2,621,798 € | 2017 | 2020 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
43 | BalticSeaFeed | Developing Sustainable Feed from Baltic Marine Resources | BalticSeaFeed project underscores the necessity to reduce the nutrient output from farming. It suggests that animal feed products from marine resources such as algae and mussels are well-suited for this purpose. Against this background, the project focuses on the production of marine feed products. The goal is to bring more products to the market and to establish a sustainable and innovative Baltic marine resources-based feed industry. | Swedish Institute | 50,000 € | 2020 | 2021 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
44 | BalticSeaSafe | Baltic Seaweed Biosafety | BalticSeaSafe project aims for creating a well justified guidance, resulting in recommendations and position papers on environmental monitoring and license conditions for cultivation of seaweed in the Baltic Sea with regard to environmental safety. The work is building on the work of Baltic GRASS project and its recommendation for future actions. It will raise awareness on environmental benefits and risks of algae cultivation in the Baltic Sea region, especially in matters of biohazard. | Seaweed Safety Coalition | - | 2022 | 2023 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
45 | BALTIPLAST | Baltic Approaches to Handling Plastic Pollution under a Circular Economy Context | BALTIPLAST aims at the prevention and reduction of plastic waste in the Baltic Sea Region, focusing on single use plastic reduction, improvements in plastic packaging and innovative collection and treatment systems at the municipality level. The project´s main objective is to identify, test and deploy concrete solutions to handle and reduce the flow of plastic waste to the Baltic Sea, under the lenses of a circular economy. | Interreg | 4,270,000 € | 2023 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | BaltSusBoating 2030 | Baltic Sustainable Boating 2030 - Making Leisure Boating in the Baltic Sea Fit for the Post-Pandemic Boating Tourism Market | Despite high class infrastructure and its attractive destination profile the Baltic Sea Region lags behind international competitors in terms of visibility and tapping economic potentials of leisure boating. BaltSusBoating 2030 creates a pan-Baltic cooperation platform to turn the Baltic Sea region into a sustainable and competitive leisure boating destination. By its end, BaltSusBoating 2030 will have created an institutional basis and a strategic framework for that. | Interreg | 400,000 € | 2022 | 2024 | Learn More | |||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | BaMS | Bioeconomy on Marine Sites | The focus of the BaMS project is on developing a new innovation area in northern Germany with 79 project partners from research, industry and public administration. New - and above all sustainable - concepts are being developed for a comprehensive circular economy, including fish, mussels and algae, among other things. In addition to research projects, BaMS actively supports the development of demonstration site and the sustainable implementation of the project results in business and society. | German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) | 20,000,000 € | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
48 | BCE | Blue Circular Economy | BCE aims to help small and medium-sized enterprises offering products and services within fishing gear recycling solutions in the NPA region to attain a greater market reach. Building on the network developed under Circular Ocean (2015-2018), the project will set up a multi-level cluster to connect and catalyze SMEs in the region. The cluster formation will be used as a hub, multiplier and network enabler where knowledge and experience is developed and shared. | Interreg | 1,690,662 € | 2018 | 2022 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
49 | BEACH-SOS | Climate Smart Baltic Beaches and Tourism | BEACH-SOS, with activities in Latvia, Denmark and Germany, is a small project that aims to enhance the capacity of local governments, Blue Flag beaches, coastal tourism business, business support units, NGOs and coastal communities to become “climate-smart”. BEACH-SOS will develop capacity to uptake climate change into beach management strategies, and provide the best available data and information for adaptation of coastal tourism. | Interreg | 498,482 € | 2023 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
50 | BEACON | Application of Biological Effects Methods in Monitoring and Assessment of Contaminants in the Baltic Sea | The BEACON will address the biological effects of contaminants, a key topic that provides an understanding of the broad impact of multiple mixed effects of contaminants on Baltic Sea biota. The project will take direct contact with stakeholders to evaluate their needs and barriers in addressing mixed effects of contaminants, will summarise available methodologies and carry out a pilot evaluation of an integrated biological effects of contaminants, and return findings to the stakeholders. | Interreg | 492,353 € | 2022 | 2024 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
51 | BENNO | Benthic nitrous oxide cycling in a changing coastal sea | By using a multidisciplinary approach that combines micro-sensor techniques with microbial functional gene expressions, BENNO is to disentangle the contribution of the different microbial processes to net N2O production in coastal sediment representative for the northern Baltic Sea (i) under present and future eutrophication status and water temperature, and (ii) over seasonal changes in environmental conditions. The aim is to assess whether the coastal Baltic Sea will become a sink or source of N2O in the future. | - | 378,921 € | 2022 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
52 | BIO-C3 | Biodiversity changes – causes, consequences and management implications | The project focused on functional consequences of ongoing and projected distributional and compositional changes of benthic and pelagic communities with a focus on invasive and resident key species. Using spatial and temporal projections of abiotic/biotic drivers including their interaction (climate change, eutrophication, species invasions, fisheries), the project provides an assessment of how biodiversity (e. g., of species, traits, habitats) responds in time, space and along gradients of human impact and hydrography. | BONUS | 3,700,000 € | 2014 | 2017 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Bio-LUSH | Biomass Valorization for Sustainable and High Quality Fiber Material | Bio-LUSH aims to extract high-quality fibres from the cell walls of underexploited and widely available European plant resources, including nettles, hemp hurd, seagrass and forestry residues. It then aims to develop an innovative process for refining the fibres and converting them into functional bio-based materials. The project will demonstrate the use of the extracted fibres to manufacture sustainable bio-based products, including edible food packaging, antibacterial textiles, etc. | Horizon Europe | 4,479,506 € | 2023 | 2027 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | BioBeo | Innovative Education for the BioEconomy | BioBeo is introducing Europe’s youth to the benefits and importance of implementing a bioeconomy. To achieve this, it will create an engaging and educational programme that encourages participation and action throughout society, based on five bioeconomy themes: outdoor learning, interconnectedness, forestry, life below water. The overall aim is to increase participation in STEM careers, promote active citizenship and ease the transition to a sustainable bioeconomy. | Horizon Europe | 1,871,313 € | 2022 | 2024 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
55 | BIOcean5D | Marine Biodiversity Assessment and Prediction across Spatial, Temporal and Human Scale | BIOcean5D unites major European centers in molecular/cell biology to build a unique suite of technologies, protocols, and models allowing holistic re-exploration of marine biodiversity. A focus is to understand pan-European biodiversity land-to-sea gradients and ecosystem services, notably with an expedition that will deploy mobile labs, research vessels, and innovative citizen science tools, across 21 coastal countries and 35 marine labs from the Mediterranean to Arctic seas. | Horizon Europe | 15,449,903 € | 2022 | 2026 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Biodiversa-plus | European Biodiversity Partnership | Biodiversa-plus is crucial for the successful implementation of the the EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030. Bringing together 75 organisations from 37 countries, the project will work to coordinate research programmes and mobilise key partners for biodiversity research and innovation. Specifically, it will improve monitoring, generate actionable knowledge, expand the evidence base, and make the business case for conservation. It will also provide science-based support for policymaking. | Horizon Europe | 136,144,162 € | 2021 | 2028 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
57 | LIFE IP BIODIVERSEA | Enhancing the marine and coastal biodiversity of the Baltic Sea in Finland and promoting the sustainable use of marine resources | The marine nature of the Baltic Sea is diverse and rich in species. LIFE-IP Biodiversea is the largest collaborative project carried out in Finland to safeguard the biodiversity of the Baltic Sea. The main aim of the project is to enhance the protection of marine nature and promote the sustainable use of natural resources in the marine and coastal areas of Finland. Among other things, the project will prepare a restoration plan for the entire coast of Finland. | LIFE | 11,929,211 € | 2021 | 2029 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Björkskär | Björkskär | This project is based on the desire to improve the environmental state of the Baltic Sea. We will together with our partners develop solutions for synergies between two growing industries, offshore wind parks and seaweed cultivation. The project also includes experimenting with and developing ecosystem restoration services. The vision is that the area for the wind park will become a biodiversity hotspot, with fish spawning around artificial reefs, blue mussels and seaweed around the windmill foundations. | - | - | 2023 | 2028 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
59 | Blue Food | Blue Food - Centre for future seafood | The purpose of Blue Food is to harness the enormous potential of the production of nutritious food from Swedish waters and thus make Sweden a leading producer of sustainable seafood. Through research and knowledge dissemination, we will create better conditions for seafood production and increase understanding of seafood. The research focuses on increased food production from wild-caught fish and sustainable cultivation of algae, fish and other edible animals in circular systems. | - | - | 2021 | 2024 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||
60 | Blue Lakes | Blue Lakes: Digitizing the Carbon Sink Potential of Boreal Lakes | The BlueLakes project will deliver new data, understanding, and a digital model that will enable the water management sector and regulatory bodies to assess carbon burial in boreal lakes and understand the impacts that management decisions and climate change can have on the size of the sink. The development of the open access model will be done in co-creation with end-users, to ensure that the model will respond to their needs, hence enabling the direct uptake and impact of the project. | - | 1,789,583 € | 2023 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
61 | Blue Platform | Bioeconomy for Blue Growth in the Baltic Sea Region – a platform project to capitalize on the outputs of complementary transnational projects | Blue Platform promotes results from 11 blue bioeconomy projects from Interreg, BONUS and H2020 for authorities, business development organisations as well as national and regional EU funding programmes dealing with blue growth. To improve the framework conditions for blue bioeconomy in the BSR, the project compiles a manual with standards for blue bioeconomy interventions, a Blue Platform Roadmap 2020, and policy papers on the alignment of funding and legislation. | Interreg | 1,052,831 € | 2018 | 2022 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
62 | Blue Supply Chains | Blue Supply Chains for a Better Integration of Motorways of the Sea and Inland Waterways | Blue Supply Chains is about achieving climate neutrality in the shipping sector. Utilising the potential of inland waterway, short sea shipping and railway transport plays a crucial role in decarbonising freight transport in the BSR. This requires intensified actions by ports and transport operators. The projects aims at reducing CO2 emissions by supporting a modal shift from road to more environmentally friendly modes, and improving the CO2 balance of rail and waterborne transport through the implementation of new technologies. | Interreg | 4,600,000 € | 2023 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
63 | Blue-Green Bio Lab | Blue-Green Bio Lab across the BSR | Together, aquaculture and agriculture can provide solutions to the sea challenges by connecting in industrial symbioses based on full exploitation of local blue/green biomasses. The Blue-Green Toolkit developed in this project targets practitioners, and enables them to become identifiers of local resource streams, facilitators of company matchmaking and value-chain workshops, and mediators of conducive policy environments. | Interreg | 499,400 € | 2022 | 2024 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
64 | Blue4All | Blueprint demonstration for co-created effective, efficient and resilient networks of MPAs | Marine protected areas (MPAs) are crucial in efforts to stem the loss of biodiversity and disruption of ocean ecosystems. MPAs are places in the ocean that receive protection to safeguard biodiversity from abatable threats. In this context, BLUE4ALL will align top-down regulatory demands about European (networks of) MPAs with bottom-up societal expectations as a guarantee for achieving efficient and resilient MPAs and networks of MPAs which meet EU Biodiversity Strategy 2030 objectives. | Horizon Europe | 8,018,806 € | 2023 | 2026 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
65 | BlueBio | ERA-NET Cofund on Blue Bioeconomy - Unlocking the potential of aquatic bioresources | Blue bioeconomy is essential in reducing the pressure on land resources and tackling climate change. ERA-NET Cofund BlueBio will act to unlock the potential of aquatic bio-resources to create jobs, economic growth and provide food, nutrition and bio-based products and services. The goal is to identify the best ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market. The project will establish a coordinated R&D funding scheme to strengthen Europe’s position in the blue bioeconomy. | Horizon 2020 | 25,547,940 € | 2018 | 2024 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||
66 | BlueBioClimate | Climate-adapted tools for a sustainable blue bioeconomy in Kattegat-Skagerrak | Biodiversity in aquatic environments (blue biodiversity; diversity at ecosystem, species, population, gene and function levels) in the Kattegat-Skagerrak region is under great pressure from the combination of climate change and factors such as pollution, nutrient load and fishing. BlueBioClimate creates the basis for a completely new climate-adapted nature management of blue biodiversity by developing new tools that can be used for climate proofing of our biodiversity protection. | Interreg | 4,562,001 € | 2023 | 2026 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
67 | BlueBioClusters | Supporting European Coastal Regions in their Transition to a Sustainable Blue Bioeconomy | BBC will create a cluster of 13 innovation-driven support organisations from nine European regions. Their aim will be to develop and implement new support tools and methods based on systematic collection, benchmarking and joint knowledge creation on blue bio-based value chains, practice cases and incentives. An interactive portal will also be set up, which will continue to be updated and maintained, keeping the project’s momentum going long after its work has ended. | Horizon Europe | 2,329,488 € | 2022 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
68 | BlueBioSites | Data, information and tools to identify and monitor optimal sites for the Blue Bioeconomy in the Baltic Sea Region | BlueBioSites aims to develop a ‘large scale’ project with the objective to create a Baltic Sea wide effective system for the identification and monitoring of Blue Bioeconomy sites covering mussel and macroalgae cultivations, fish aquaculture, microalgae and reed harvesting sites. The project focuses on data and information necessary to identify new sites, as well as the monitoring of existing sites, and shall provide recommendations on most effective technology means to generate such data. | Interreg | 50,000 € | 2020 | 2021 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||
69 | BlueBioTECH | Technology development and transfer for a thriving Blue Bioeconomy in the Baltic Sea Region | In order to develop robust complete bio-based value chains and promote sustainable Baltic bioeconomy, we need to adapt the proven technological solutions to the needs of Baltic Sea region conditions. To achieve that, BlueBioTECH fosters cross-cutting technological innovation, models technology champions relevant to the Baltic blue bioeconomy and provides technology transfer facilities to industry end-users and farmers. | Interreg | 50,000 € | 2020 | 2021 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
70 | BlueGeneration | Blue Economy Jobs for Young People | The objective of BlueGeneration is to inspire and engage young people of 15-29 years to pursue a sustainable career in one of the following Blue Economy sectors: coastal tourism, aquaculture, ocean energy, marine biotechnology, shipbuilding, maritime transport and fisheries. At the heart of the project lies the Blue Generation Program. The BGP is an integrated outreach action with the aim to "attract, engage and convert" young people to the vast opportunities of the Blue Economy job market. | EEA and Norway Grants Fund for Youth Employment | 2,119,875 € | 2018 | 2022 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
71 | BlueMissionBANOS | Supporting the Mission Ocean Lighthouse in the Baltic and North Sea basins | BlueMissionBANOS will act as a facilitator and knowledge broker to inspire, engage and support stakeholders in politics, industry and science across the Baltic and North Sea (BANOS) basins, to channel resources effectively towards the Mission Ocean objectives. The consortium includes active research institutes, networks/clusters and funding agencies and will work with regional and governance structures. | Horizon Europe | 2,999,994 € | 2022 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
72 | BlueNIGHTs | A touch of Blue in the EU Research Nights for a more Sustainable Use of the Ocean | BlueNIGHTs project seeks to help citizens better understand the many facets and faces of those working in ocean science and research. A series of interconnected EU Blue Researchers’ Nights will demonstrate that not only is the ocean interesting and a source of inspiration, but it is also a field of study for people with diverse backgrounds and interests. BlueNIGHTs will connect people to important objectives, principles and priorities of the European Green Deal that relates to the ocean. | Horizon Europe | 622,835 € | 2022 | 2014 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
73 | BlueRemediomics | Harnessing the Marine Microbiome for Novel Sustainable Biogenics and Ecosystem Services | BlueRemediomics project will develop an integrated bioinformatics platform to explore the marine microbiome potential. It will apply these platforms to identify and develop natural products derived from marine microbes. BlueRemediomics will support aquaculture and ecosystem services, increase equitable access to ocean microbiome resources, and provide training and tools to diverse stakeholders. | Horizon Europe | 7,683,578 € | 2022 | 2026 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
74 | BlueRev | Revitalisation of European local communities with innovative bio-based business, governance models and social innovations focused on the blue bio-based sector | The aim of BlueRev is to encourage innovation in local communities by focusing on “blue” sustainability and creating positive environmental impacts. It will establish three pilot regions in Europe (Denmark, Estonia, Italy), where it will focus on introducing meaningful changes across specific value chains in the blue bio-based sector. It will employ monitoring systems to assess the value chains and come up with ways to improve governance frameworks and business models in the sector. | Horizon Europe | 2,222,953 € | 2022 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
75 | BLUEWEBS | Blue growth boundaries in novel Baltic food webs | BONUS BLUEWEBS sets out to understand the changes in the Baltic Sea food webs, and how the system should be managed in an uncertain future. BONUS BLUEWEBS will build decision support systems for decision makers. This is done within the context the marine environment is increasingly an interest area for promoting economic growth and wellbeing for humans, as exemplified by FAO and Blue Growth initiatives. The flagship involves partners from Finland, Germany, Latvia, Poland and Sweden. | BONUS | 2,800,000 € | 2017 | 2020 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
76 | BoSS | Bauhaus of the Seas Sails | Oceans face numerous challenges, from plastic pollution to rising sea levels. It is possible to solve these environmental problems by mobilising cities close to water. This is the goal of BoSS. Project work will result in transformational demonstrators across different regions and aquatic ecosystems in Portugal, Italy, Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. The overall aim is to achieve a sustainable and inclusive transition, keeping aesthetics at the centre and working with communities. | Horizon Europe | 4,999,975 € | 2023 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
77 | BOWE2H | Baltic Offshore Wind Energy to Hydrogen | BOWE2H aims to create a transnational network and perspective to unite local governments, developers, grid experts, researchers, manufacturers and policymakers. These stakeholders have access to regional knowledge which they need to share with counterparts from other countries to achieve the best results within countries and across borders. BOWE2H’s stakeholder network hosts six regional expert events, and aims to co-creatively produce a Strategic Roadmap for Regional Offshore Wind and Hydrogen Development. | Interreg | 470,000 € | 2022 | 2024 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
78 | BSR Water | Platform on Integrated Water Cooperation | BSR Water aimed to build on existing solutions in order to improve cross-sectoral coordination of smart water management in the Baltic Sea region. It brought together water experts from companies, associations, authorities, academia and NGOs who worked in several cooperation projects before. A joint platform offered an opportunity to exchange experiences, good practices and tested solutions. In addition, it was about creating a comprehensive overview of the current and future policy contexts and their impacts on the BSR. | Interreg | 1,130,000 € | 2018 | 2021 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
79 | BSSC 2023 | Baltic Sea Science Congress 2023 | The purpose of the Congress is to bring together scientists working on issues related to the Baltic Sea Region to present the most recent research and to discuss status, trends and the future of the Baltic Sea as well as future research needs. The specific focus is on the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The Baltic Sea Science Congress 2023 is a part of the Finnish National Implementation Plan for the UN Decade of Ocean Science. | Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland | 450,000 € | 2023 | 2023 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
80 | C2B2 | Mistra Co-Creating Better Blue | C2B2 visions a more sustainable, open and democratic, multi-sector and multi-actor blue economy and sustainable society. C2B2 aims to bring about transformative change through participatory governance supported by relevant and insightful data and knowledge by re-imagining the role of quintuple helix actors across the blue economy in Sweden in processes ‘from data to knowledge to decisions and action’, increasing opportunities for participation, deliberation and influence, building open infrastructure, etc. | Mistra | 4,420,000 € | 2023 | 2027 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
81 | Capacity4MSP | Strengthening the capacity of MSP stakeholders and decision makers | Capacity4MSP will create a practically oriented and interactive collaboration platform for knowledge exchange and intensified dialogue between MSP practitioners, policy- and decision-makers and other stakeholders. It will increase the visibility and impact of projects, build up potential synergies, deepen and widen gained know-how by synthesizing, amplifying and transferring the project outcomes to new practical solutions. | Interreg | 1,089,273 € | 2019 | 2022 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
82 | CAPonLITTER | Capitalising good coastal practices and improving policies to prevent marine litter | CAPonLITTER aims at improving policies and practices that can help in preventing marine litter that results from coastal tourism and recreational activities. More specifically, the project will focus on key fractions of waste, such as plastic food and drink containers originating from beach facilities and recreational events, due to improper behaviour of consumers but also to lack of incentives and structures for prevention, collection and recycling of waste. | Interreg | 1,359,334 € | 2019 | 2023 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
83 | CASES BSR | Climate adaptation support for enterprises in the Baltic Sea Region | Research show that four out of five SMEs fear impact of climate change on their businesses. All regions in Europe are affected by climate change in some sense. CASES BSR addresses the issue on how climate change affects SMEs and the increasing needs to adopt climate adaptation strategies for a long-term sustainability. The project raises the knowledge by research how various types of SMEs handle it today. The result by the research shall map the foremost needs of support among SMEs. | Interreg | 50,000 € | 2020 | 2021 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
84 | CE2COAST | Downscaling Climate and Ocean Change to Services: Thresholds and Opportunities | The challenges of understanding climate and ocean change at European and global scales require expertise exceeding that available from one single nation. CE2COAST adds transnational value by combining national expertise across the disciplines of oceanography, marine biogeochemistry, marine ecology, data and database management, earth system, marine and ecosystem modelling and science and policy communication. | - | 3,286,803 € | 2020 | 2023 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
85 | CERES | Climate change and European aquatic RESources | CERES advances a cause-and-effect understanding of how future climate change will influence Europe’s most important fish and shellfish populations, their habitats, and the economic activities dependent on these species. CERES will involve and closely cooperate with industry and policy stakeholders to define policy, environment, social, technological, law and environmental climate change scenarios to be tested. | Horizon 2020 | 5,586,851 € | 2016 | 2020 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||
86 | CIRCALGAE | CIRCular valorisation of industrial ALGAE waste streams into high-value products to foster future sustainable blue biorefineries in Europe | Algae biomass is a treasure in the water, while capturing CO2 vast amounts of biomass are generated. CIRCALGAE project aims to develop a ground-breaking exploitation system where the algae industrial waste streams will be further valorised, in a more sustainable and circular approach. Through a set of simple, water-based technologies, the project focuses on introducing an integrated biorefinery concept and delivering novel macro- and microalgae ingredients to the food, feed and cosmetic sector. | Horizon Europe | 10,332,894 € | 2022 | 2026 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
87 | CIRCLES | Controlling mIcRobiomes CircuLations for bEtter food Systems | CIRCLES intends to discover and deploy innovative microbiomes-tailored circular actions into concrete applications to increase the sustainability of the EU food system. The project will create real-world labs in the field of six food systems relevant to the EU market – tomatoes, spinach, poultry, pigs, Atlantic salmon, and seabream aquacultures – to understand the role of the food system microbiomes in productivity, quality, safety and sustainability. | Horizon 2020 | 11,096,080 € | 2018 | 2024 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
88 | City Blues | Bluegreen Nature-based Solutions for Climate Change Adaptation and Citizen Wellbeing | The overall project aim is to support adaptation to negative effects of climate change and to improve green and blue infrastructure of densifying cities through integrated nature-based solutions (NBS) for urban flooding and stormwater management. Furthermore, the goal is to make the living environment for the inhabitants more inclusive, healthy, and attractive. In the development of NBS, the project builds on the watershed approach allowing a clear geographical and hydrological definition of an area to be managed. | Interreg | 2,950,000 € | 2023 | 2026 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
89 | City to Sea | City to Sea Accelerator | The "City to Sea" programme aims to promote the development of innovative and sustainable solutions. Participants will work in two thematic areas - mobility and water innovations. Urban mobility emphasizes convenient, affordable and environmentally friendly movement in cities. All the while, the water innovations focus on environmental protection, digital transformation of ports, food supply chains and other thematic areas of the blue economy. | - | 200,000 € | 2023 | 2023 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
90 | CLAIM | Cleaning Litter by developing and Applying Innovative Methods in european seas | CLAIM focuses on the development of innovative cleaning technologies and approaches, targeting the prevention and in situ management of visible and invisible marine litter in the Mediterranean and Baltic Sea. CLAIM aims at the same time to raise public awareness on the importance of reducing marine (macro, micro and nano) pollution in European seas and beyond towards restoring marine ecosystems based on a circular economy. | Horizon 2020 | 6,150,475 € | 2017 | 2022 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
91 | CLANCY | Improve habitat quality and climate-adaptivity of freshwater ecosystems through management of alien invasive aquatic invertebrates | CLANCY will increase the capacity of the North Sea Region (NSR) to preserve climate-adaptive, biodiverse ecosystems, through management of Chinese Mitten Crab. CLANCY will contribute to the governance of coordinated cross-border species management, adapted to local and regional needs and conditions. Valorisation and accrual of captured CMC biomass will be developed with industry partners along with an infrastructure plan for value chain establishment. | Interreg | 4,679,614 € | 2023 | 2028 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
92 | CliMaLoc | Climate mainstreaming locally in the Baltic Sea Region | Climate mainstreaming locally in the Baltic Sea Region (CliMaLoc) is a project which aims to foster climate adaptation among the small and medium municipalities in the Baltic Sea Region. The project aims to make best use of existing knowledge and capacity in the region and Europe to support the exchange of best practices that will encourage municipalities to take steps towards climate adaptation even when resources and skills are scarce. | Swedish Institute | 50,000 € | 2021 | 2022 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
93 | CLIMAS | CLIMAte change citizens engagement toolbox for dealing with Societal resilience | Climate change impacts our society, economy and the environment. For instance, flooding has affected millions of people in Europe in recent years.CLIMAS project will develop an innovative problem-oriented climate adaptation toolbox codesigned with stakeholders by applying a values-based approach, design thinking methods, and citizen science mechanisms. The toolbox will anticipate possible tensions, points of controversy, and dilemmas and enable engagement strategies that produce a society ‘resilient by design’. | Horizon Europe | 2,817,903 € | 2023 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
94 | ClimeFish | Co-creating a decision support framework to ensure sustainable fish production in Europe under climate change | The overall goal of ClimeFish is to help ensure that the increase in seafood production comes in areas and for species where there is a potential for sustainable growth, given the expected developments in climate, thus contributing to robust employment and sustainable development of rural and coastal communities. The underlying biological models are based on single species distribution and production, as well as multispecies interactions. | Horizon 2020 | 5,195,216 € | 2016 | 2020 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
95 | Coast4Us | Coast4Us | The idea of this project is to develop a holistic and inclusive approach in the planning process, through involving stakeholders of different interests and together create sustainable marine and coastal zone plans. The main outputs from the project will be sustainable marine and coastal spatial plans for pilot areas in Åland, Latvia, Sweden and Estonia, and new tools and management strategies, guidelines and better cooperation between stakeholders regarding spatial planning. | Interreg | 2,935,640 € | 2018 | 2020 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
96 | COASTAL Biogas | Cluster On Anaerobic digestion, environmental Services and NuTrients removAL | The aim is to create a guideline for using seaweed as co-digestive e.g. for municipalities and/or biogas operators in coastal areas of the South Baltic Sea region and to create incentives in order to financially support innovative technology, i.e. collecting and cleaning methods, and the application in a biogas plant, including also technical and legal guidelines. The concept is implemened in Solrød, Denmark. More than 1,500 tonnes of cast seaweed were processed in 2019. | Interreg | 1,575,378 € | 2018 | 2021 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||
97 | CoastNet LIFE | Restoring the Baltic coastal habitat networks | CoastNet LIFE aims to improve the conservation status of Natura 2000 sites along the Baltic coastal zone. To achieve this, it plans to carry out restoration work on four types of habitat: boreal Baltic islets and small, open habitats; mosaics of herb-rich, broad-leaved forests and semi-natural habitats; sun-lit habitats; as well as large coastal meadows and new forests on previously uncolonised land. The project's work should help increase the populations of numerous species by giving them new areas to colonise. | LIFE | 8,681,176 € | 2018 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
98 | COMPLETE | Completing Management Options in the Baltic Sea Region to Reduce Risk of Invasive Species Introduction by Shipping | Shipping contributes to the uncontrolled introduction of invasive species to the Baltic Sea, which has severe environmental and economic consequences. COMPLETE supports the implementation of the new International Maritime Organization’s convention on ballast water management by triggering regional cooperation, developing risk assessment procedures for ballast water management exemptions and setting a monitoring system of non-indigenous species in the Baltic Sea. | Interreg | 3,231,287 € | 2017 | 2021 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||
99 | CONTRA | Baltic Beach Wrack Conversion of a Nuisance to a Resource and Asset | Beach wrack plays an important role for beach ecosystems and coastal protectio but is seen as a ‘dirty’ nuisance which is costly to remove. To find a balance between opposing interests, CONTRA is working at 6 case studies to conduct a fair and sound evaluation of the environmental, economic and social aspects. It will enable local authorities to safeguard our beaches, to reduce the economic burden on coastal communities and to ensure that disposal and recycling options are environmentally sound. | Interreg | 2,565,180 € | 2019 | 2021 | Learn More | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||
100 | COOL BLUE Baltic | COmmunity Ocean farms and Local Business cLUstErs in the BALTIC sea | COOL BLUE Baltic will provide concrete examples of ecosystem restoration, viable business models and social innovation in order to reorient future fisher/farmers to diversify their income through regenerative aquaculture (i.e. regenerative ocean farming or ROF). The project will assess the interest and feasibility of setting up new ROF sites via multi-stakeholder co-assessment workshops, co-developing six permanent cooperation frameworks to foster enabling conditions for ROF. | Horizon Europe | 750,000 € | 2023 | 2025 | Learn More | Yes | Yes |