What is the Mission?
With a 2030 target, the EU Mission "Restore our Ocean and Waters" aims to protect and restore the health of our ocean and waters through research and innovation, citizen engagement and blue investments. The Mission’s new approach will address the ocean and waters as one and play a key role in achieving climate neutrality and restoring nature.
Cross-cutting enabling actions will support this objective, in particular broad public mobilisation and engagement and a digital ocean and water knowledge system, known as Digital Twin Ocean.
The Mission supports regional engagement and cooperation through area-based “lighthouses” in major sea/river basins: Atlantic-Arctic, Mediterranean Sea, Baltic-North Sea, and Danube-Black Sea. Mission lighthouses are sites to pilot, demonstrate, develop and deploy the Mission activities across EU seas and river basins
Mission Charter
We are calling on Member States, regions and a wide range of stakeholders to endorse the Charter and pledge actions that will contribute to the successful implementation of the Mission and its lighthouses.
Please click below to endorse the Charter and pledge actions
Action pledges submitted so far: interactive map
Funding opportunities
New funding opportunities are now open to contribute to the Mission implementation.
The Horizon Europe Work Programme 2023-2024 was adopted on 6 December 2022. New calls have opened and they are published on the funding and tenders portal. You can access the calls for this Mission below. Applications are open until 20 September 2023.
What are EU Missions?
EU Missions are a new way to bring concrete solutions to some of our greatest challenges. They have ambitious goals and will deliver tangible results by 2030.
They will deliver impact by putting research and innovation into a new role, combined with new forms of governance and collaboration, as well as by engaging citizens.
EU Missions are a novelty of the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme for the years 2021-2027.
More information
- mission-oriented policy for Horizon Europe
- Horizon Europe
- co-design session on oceans mission at Research and Innovation Days (video)
- EU Missions info days 2022
Contact
Documents
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Latest
- News article
EU R&I contribution to the UN 2023 Water Conference
Clean water and sanitation for all by 2030 is the central topic at the UN Water Conference on 22-24 March. The EU is committed to playing an active role
- News article
EU Mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’: 20 new projects to restore our blue Planet by 2030
20 multinational projects will receive over €117 million to contribute to the objectives of the EU Mission ‘Restore our Ocean and waters’: protect and restore biodiversity, cut pollution, support a sustainable blue economy.
- News article
Commission invests €16 million in two major research actions for healthy oceans and waters by 2030
This investment is a direct contribution of the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) to the Horizon Europe EU Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030”
- News article
Kicking-off the European Partnership for a climate neutral, sustainable and productive Blue Economy, with about a half billion euro
The European Commission and 25 different countries launch in Rome the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership with 60 partnering institutions, with a planned investment of € 450 Million over 7 years
Events
- Conferences and summits
Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030”: The Baltic and North Sea lighthouse in action
- 25 - 26 April 2023
- Campaign launches
Mission “Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030”: Danube and Black Sea Lighthouse launch event
- 3 - 4 April 2023
- Bucharest, Romania
- Conferences and summits
1st Annual Forum - EU Mission "Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030"
- 17 February 2023
- Bruxelles, Belgium
Related links
Other EU Missions
Adaptation to climate change
Support at least 150 European regions and communities towards climate resilience by 2030
EU Mission: Cancer
improving the lives of more than 3 million people by 2030 through prevention, cure and for those affected by cancer including their families, to live longer and better
Climate-neutral and smart cities
Deliver 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030 and ensure that these cities act as experimentation and innovation hubs to enable all European cities to follow suit by 2050
Soil health and food
The main goal of the Mission 'A Soil Deal for Europe' is to establish 100 living labs and lighthouses to lead the transition towards healthy soils by 2030.