HORIZON EUROPE – Supporting the implementation of the Restore our Ocean and Waters Mission – 2025

Some Horizon Europe budgets are structured in response to policy ambitions (“destinations”) and deployed through calls for proposals targeting more specific thematic/sector (“Topics”). Thus, your application must be linked to a topic of a call for proposals.

Various categories of projects are eligible:

• RIA, Research and Innovation Actions: Basic and applied research / Technology development and adoption / Testing and validation of a prototype in the laboratory ;
• IA, Innovation Actions: Prototypes, tests, demonstrations, pilot projects, market placement. These actions may include limited R&D activities ;
• CSA, Coordination and Support Actions: Networking, studies & conferences, communication, studies for new research infrastructures ;
• MSCA, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions / ERC individual grants: Training networks for researchers, Individual grants for experienced researchers, Staff exchange – mobility for researchers and non-scientific staff.

In addition, calls specify the categories of eligible beneficiaries:

• Collaborative projects, composed of a coordinator and several partners organisations (consortium) ;
• Single-beneficiary projects, involving a single organization ;
• Individual scholarships, open to natural persons in their own name with their home institution.

TOPICS:

Open

• HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-01 : Blue Parks – Towards a coherent European network of strictly protected areas for restoring healthy and productive marine ecosystems
• HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-02 : A toolbox for public authorities to address marine plastics and litter from river-to-ocean
• HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-03 : Digital technologies and energy transition in fisheries and/or aquaculture
• HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-04 : Restoring Ocean and Waters in Regions
• HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-05 : Restoring Ocean and Waters in waterfront Cities and their Ports
• HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-06 : Restoring Ocean and Waters on Islands
• HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-07 : Mission Lighthouses coordination and support activities
• HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-08 : EU Digital Twin Ocean: Contribution to the EU DTO core infrastructure through applications for sustainable ocean management

Additional information

• To find your National Contact Point (NCP): Click here

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website : Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 120 million euros
• Budget per topic:
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-01: 5 million euros
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-02: 22 million euros
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-03: 23.300.000 euros
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-04: 15 million euros
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-05: 15 million euros
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-06: 13.500.000 euros
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-07: 14.200.000 euros
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-08: 12 million euros
• Amount of the grant: between 3 million and 15 million euros
• Funding rate: up to 70% of the total eligible costs except for the following two calls which are funded up to 100%:
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-01
  • HORIZON-MISS-2025-03-OCEAN-07