“Digitalisation and Innovation for Resilient Marine Ecosystems Businesses, and Communities to Strengthen the EU Blue Economy’s Competitiveness.”

The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership is a Horizon Europe co-funded partnership. It constitutes a network of 30 countries and the European Commission that enables an unprecedented effort to pool research and innovation investments and align national programmes at pan-European scale.

Xjenza Malta, as one of the Research Funding Organisations launching this Joint Transnational Co-Funded Call and will be financially supporting R&I projects addressing challenges on the following priority areas:

• Digital Twins- development and use
• Transitioning Blue Economy Sectors
• Managing Sea Uses
• Blue Bioresources

·        Resilient Coastal Communities and Businesses

Malta-Based Entities are eligible for funding, with the option of requesting up to €500,000 to participate in a SBEP proposal consortium*.

Pre-proposal submission deadline – 17 November 2025, 15:00 CET

Apart from the pre-proposal submission by the Project Coordinator on the EPSS, each National applicant shall be required to submit a National Application Form to eusubmissions.xjenzamalta@gov.mt by 17th November 2025 at 23:59 CET.

Register to the online information session scheduled to be held on the 3rd of October.

Visit the below link to download application forms and guidelines.

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