Embarking together: Kick-off meeting of funded projects (2023 Joint Call)

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Embarking Together: Kick-off Meeting of Funded Projects (2023 Joint Call)

Embarking together: Kick-off meeting of funded projects (2023 Joint Call)

The 19 projects selected in the Partnership’s first co-funded call will come together for a kick-off meeting in Madrid on 25-26 September 2024. The event will bring together coordinators and other project representatives along with key staff from the Partnership consortium and the European Commission.

Practical info

Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) – Calle Torrelaguna 58 bis, 28027, Madrid, Spain

25 Sep 2024-26 Sep 2024 | 9:00-15:00

Travel information

English

About the meeting

The meeting serves a dual purpose. Firstly, it provides a platform for projects to present their work plans, objectives, and expected impacts in an open discussion with the Follow-up Group, responsible for evaluating the projects in the future (for the mid-term and final-term reviews). This will foster connections among peers and identify potential synergies and complementarities between projects. Secondly, participants will receive essential information for their upcoming 36 months of collaboration and beyond. Topics will include synergies with other EU initiatives, monitoring obligations during the project's lifespan, communication strategies, data management plans, and more.

Participants

Coordinators/consortium partners of the funded projects
Funding agencies participating in Call 2023
Follow-up Expert Group
European Commission representatives
Invited speakers and other SBEP invited members

Contacts

SBEP Follow-up secretariat
Abraham Trujillo Quintela, (AEI/FECYT)
Esther Chacón Campollo, (AEI)
oceans@aei.gob.es

Programme

PROGRAMME DAY 1, 25 SEPTEMBER 2024

PLENARY SESSION
09:00	Registration
09:30	Welcome message Domènec Espriu, General Director of AEI, Spain Elisabetta Balzi, HoU “Ocean, Seas and Waters”, DG RTD, European Commission (online) Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership (SBEP), context and update Margherita Cappelletto, MUR Italy (SBEP coordinator) Funding opportunities and synergies with other European initiatives (Missions and Partnerships) – Roundtable format Wendy Bonne, DG RTD, European Commission (online) Margherita Cappelletto, MUR Italy (SBEP coordinator) Ariane Blum, ANR France (Water4all coordinator) (online) Jaap Gebraad, Secretary General of Waterborne (online) Magnus Tannerfeld, FORMAS Sweden (Co-chair of Biodiversa+ (online) Monitoring and follow-up of funded projects Abraham Trujillo Quintela, AEI-FECYT, Spain
11:00	Coffee break
10’ presentation + 5´ Q&A for each project
11:30	BLUEWAYSE Katerina Kousoulaki, Nofima AS DTO-Track Ross McGill, Loughs Agency ARCFISH Toril Hamre, Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center Blue Bio Boost Ashild Ergon, Norwegian University of Life Sciences BlueBoost Neil Duncan, IRTA Spain RE-BLUE Ingrid Undeland, Chalmers University of Technology
13:00	Lunch break and group photo
Networking and information sessions session
14:30	Expectations on Communication and information on a future Ocean Literacy session with the projects Raluca Dumitrache, JPI Oceans EMODnet and the data from SBEP funded projects Elena Tel, IEO-CSIC, EMODnet Data Ingestion partner UN-Decade Co-branding for the SBEP funded projects Alison Clausen, Marine Policy and Regional Coordination IOC-UNESCO (online)
15:50	Coffee break
16:15	AQUABALANCE Natalia Maehle, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences CliN-BluFeed Lionel Camus, Akvaplan AquaUp Abirami Ramu Ganesan, NIBIO Norway FAMOS Lorenzo Cappietti, University of Florenc FOODIMAR Freya Robinson, SUBMARINER Network for Blue Growth EEIG
17:30	End of 1st day and free time until dinner
20:00	Dinner at ILUNION Atrium Hotel Madrid (Calle Emilio Vargas, 3, 5. 28043 Madrid)

PROGRAMME DAY 2, 26 SEPTEMBER 2024

PLENARY SESSION
09:30	Welcome, recap of day before and start of meeting
10’ presentation + 5´ Q&A for each project
09:45	FunSea Oystein Arlov, SINTEF Industry INSPIRE Amir Rasekhi Nejad, NTNU MEDSEAPLAN Lisa Simone de Grunt, World Ocean Council BluEcho Marta Cianferra, University of Trieste SEAFOODTURE Marta Martínez, CSIC Spain
11:00	Coffee break
11:30	Workshop for funded projects and funders on Impact and Market Uptake Aleksander Olsen, Innovation Norway Best practice and lessons learnt by bound4blue Elena Maneiro Franco, Head of EU (and others) Funding Strategy at bound4blue
12:30	SEAREFINERY Zeynep Cetecioglu Gurol, KTH Royal Institute of Technology SHELLFISHBOOST Luca Bargelloni, University of Padova WASTE2TASTE Daniela Coppola, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
13:15	Open Access, Data Management Plans and data sharing expectations from funded projects Theory of Change and SBEP KPIs Thematic and Regional Portfolios of projects Sylvain Pasquier, ANR France Coraline Chapperon, ANR France Towards an inclusive and just Sustainable Blue Economy: integrating the ethical and legal perspectives Michèle Barbier, Independent Ethics Expert for the EC, Ethics advisor of EU funded projects and External Advisory Member of the Ocean Entreprise initiative (online) Joint reflections and wrap-up Margherita Cappelletto, MUR Italy (SBEP Coordinator) Abraham Trujillo Quintela, AEI-FECYT Spain
14:15	Lunch and end of Kick-off meeting