TRANSNATIONAL CALL FOR RESEARCH & INNOVATION PROJECTS IN MARITIME AND MARINE TECHNOLOGIES
The consortium of the ERA-NET Cofund MarTERA will organise and co-fund, together with the European Commission under Horizon 2020, a joint call for transnational research and innovation projects on different thematic priority areas. This call is initiated by funding organisations from 16 countries of the former ERA-NET MARTEC consortium and JPI OCEANS members:Argentina, Belarus, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, South Africa and Turkey.
The transnational call will be opened in December 2016 with a budget of about 30 Mio € for collaborative research and innovation projects in the following areas:
- Priority Area 1: Environmentally friendly maritime technologies
- Priority Area 2: Development of novel materials and structures
- Priority Area 3: Sensors, automation, monitoring and observations
- Priority Area 4: Advanced manufacturing and production
- Priority Area 5: Safety and security
Applicants from the above mentioned countries are eligible for funding. Partners who are not eligible for funding, including partners from countries not participating in this call, may participate at their own expense or if they have their own separate source of funding.
Call announcement and the national rules of funding organisations will be published on the official launch of the joint call.
MarTERA will implement the Call 2017 as a two-step procedure (a pre-proposal and a full-proposal step).
Step 1: Deadline for submission of pre-proposals is planned to be end of March 2017.
More information here.
