European Call for proposals DG Environment - Action plans coastal and marine waters

The Directorate-General for the Environment (DG Environment) of the European Commission has published the call Best practices for action plans to develop integrated, regional monitoring programmes, coordinated programmes of measures and addressing data and knowledge gaps in coastal and marine waters. Deadline for applications is November 17, 2014. The budget of the call with Reference DG ENV/MSFD Action Plans /2014 is € 2,460,000.

Purpose of the call is to support the development of (sub)regional action plans and best practices for integrated monitoring programmes, coordinated programmes of measures and the filling of data gaps for marine waters identified in the Commission assessment and thereby improve implementation in the next steps of the Directive, in particular in relation to the review of the initial assessment, the GES definition and the environmental target setting in 2018. More detailed information and documents can be found here.

The maximum EU funding rate under this Call for Proposals is 80% of eligible costs per proposal based on the project budget. The Commission expects to fund approximately between 2 and 5 proposals (preferably in different marine regions). The indicative grant per project will be between € 500,000 and € 1,000,000 if the proposal covers the entire region in the case of the Baltic Sea, North East Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. In the case of proposals covering the Black Sea or the subregions of the North East Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea, the indicative grant per project will be between € 200,000 and € 400,000.

The Directorate-General for the Environment is one of the more than 40 Directorates-General and services that make up the European Commission. Commonly referred to as DG Environment, the objective of the Directorate-General is to protect, preserve and improve the environment for present and future generations. To achieve this it proposes policies that ensure a high level of environmental protection in the European Union and that preserve the quality of life of EU citizens.