Below, you will find an overview of the articles that have been posted by the communications team
On 3 December 2024, the Innovation Fund 2024 (IF24) Call was launched. This Call aims to provide significant financial support to advance decarbonization technologies across various sectors, including maritime transport and inland navigation. The fund focuses on innovative solutions to help achieve climate neutrality by 2050, with dedicated allocations for different sectors. Total amount: €4.6 billion, including €200 million […]
Are you planning a blue event between 1 April and 31 October 2025? Join EU’s ‘European Maritime Day In My Country 2025′ campaign to boost its exposure. From beach clean-ups to educational tours or seafood fairs – all events promoting the sustainable Blue Ecomomy, are welcome! More than 500 events all over Europe joined this […]
The European Commission has launched the EU Preparatory Action (2024-2026): Innovation for Place-Based Transformation, an initiative designed to empower territories to support policy practitioners in tackling urgent sustainability challenges. By fostering transformative innovation approaches, this action promotes capacity building, experimentation, and policy development to drive systemic change across EU regions and beyond. Key objectives include: […]
The Call for workshops for the EMD 2025 in Cork, Ireland, is now open! The European Maritime Day (EMD) is the annual two-day event during which Europe’s maritime community meet to network, discuss and outline joint action on maritime affairs and sustainable blue economy. Stakeholders – businesses, science, government, NGOs – are involved in the EMD […]
€ 2.6 million of EU funding to improve the scientific knowledge for the EU fisheries The European Commission launched a new call for proposals to improve scientific knowledge to strengthen the science-basis of management decisions under the Common Fisheries Policy. The call is funded under the European Maritime, Fisheries and Aquaculture Fund (EMFAF) Work programme […]
On 15 November 2024, WestMED’s National Hubs from Italy and Malta, together with BlueMissionMed-National Hub Malta and the Malta Maritime Forum (MMF) organised a joint Maltese-Italian event titled: ‘Navigating the Future: Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Maritime Development in the Mediterranean.’ The event was hosted by Xjenza Malta and took place in Villa Bighi, Kalkara, Malta. […]
The Sun&Blue Congress, held on November 20, 21 and 22 in Almería, has established itself as an international benchmark in the field of Sustainable Tourism and the Blue Economy, attracting participants and projects from all over Europe and the Mediterranean. This event featured high-impact side events ranging from capacity sessions to hackathons The WestMED Assistance […]
Maritime transport and Ports probably represent the core sector, to win the challenge of sustainability of the Blue Economy, considering its impact in terms of Gross Value Added (GVA) and jobs creation across the EU and its neighbouriung regions. Greening the EU maritime transport is therefore pivotal to ‘green’ the EU blue economy at large […]
On 4 November 2024, the WestMED National Event in Tunisia on the blue economy was organised in partnership with the REBOOTMED project and the BlueMissionMed project. The objective was to enhance synergies between three major European projects that focus on strenghtening the sustainable blue economy in the region and discuss major developments related to specific […]
On 3 October 2024, 87 practioners and policymakers from 15 countries met in Vilamoura, Portugal to discuss project ideas and possible funding sources. This was the 3rd WestMED hackathon after previous succesful sessions in Palermo (2019) and Malta (2022). This year’s Hackathon with the title ‘Crafting Sustainable Blue Economy Projects’ was hosted and co-organised by […]