The European Commission announced, on Friday 30 June, the names of the 18 new projects that will receive more than €106 million to contribute to the EU’s ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’ mission.
These projects bring together more than 370 beneficiaries from 36 countries, including small and medium-sized enterprises, research institutions, local authorities, schools and businesses. They will play a key role in achieving climate neutrality and restoring nature by protecting and restoring biodiversity in waters, cutting pollution, supporting a sustainable blue economy and developing the European Digital Twin of the Ocean.
All EU Member States are involved in the projects, with actions stretching from the Baltic and North Seas to the Atlantic, the Danube and the Mediterranean.
These projects will deliver a wide variety of benefits for oceans and waters, such as solutions for protecting and restoring degraded coastal and marine habitats, preventing and eliminating marine litter and plastics, integrating biodiversity monitoring data into the Digital Twin of the Ocean and much more.
To see the project overview: https://aeur.eu/f/7ui (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)