1st Call launch: 31 July 2025, 15:00 CEST

The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, a European partnership under the European Commission’s Research & Innovation Framework Programme Horizon Europe, is pleased to announce its first Thematic Portfolio Call for Interest. This call aims to connect on-going projects to create and boost networking activities for a 2-year period, from early 2026 to early 2028. Two active networking portfolios will be established composed of projects granted by SBEP and a range of national/regional/EU funding streams on these 2 different topics:

• Topic 1: Innovations and digitalisation for low-impact sustainable small-scale fisheries management in EU sea-basins.
• Topic 2: Innovations for boosting sustainability in marine algae cultivations and circularity in the blue bioeconomy.