The below Horizon Europe Mission Ocean-funded projects are assisting and supporting the Mission in setting up and implementing Lighthouses in major European sea and river basins.
Aquaculture
AlgaePro BANOS
AlgaeProBANOS brings together 26 expert partners, start-ups and SMEs to accelerate the development of sustainable algae products.
COOL BLUE
COmmunity Ocean farms and Local Business cLUstErs: Cultivating community across European seas through community-led regenerative aquaculture enterprises
LOCALITY
LOCALITY works to create socially responsible algae-based products and solutions in food, aquafeed, agriculture, and textile markets, highlighting their economic role.
Mr.Goodfish3.0
Mr.Goodfish3.0 will upgrade an app for sustainable seafood consumption based on stakeholder input and it will employ it in an EU-wide awareness campaign
OLAMUR
OLAMUR is working towards a climate neutral and circular economy to demonstrate sustainable multi-use solutions for the North and Baltic sea regions.
ULTFARMS
ULTFARMS, a Horizon Europe Ocean Mission initiative led by Deltares and involving 25 members from 9 countries, aims to revolutionize Low-Trophic Aquaculture in harsh offshore and low-salinity environments of the North Sea and Baltic Sea, integrating advanced engineering and ecological processes for sustainable production of species like seaweed and molluscs, from January 2023 to June 2026.
VeriFish
The sustainability indicator framework to communicate responsible aquafood production and consumption patterns
Blue Economy
C-FAARER (Community-Driven Sustainable Business Models for Regenerative Ocean Farming)
C-FAARER (Community-Driven Sustainable Business Models for Regenerative Ocean Farming)
Citizen Science
BlueLightS
Piloting blue education in Europe by supporting blue challenge projects in schools, setting up a blue education Community of Practice and experimenting adaptions in education systems to raise the attention given to rivers and seas.
FLOW
FLOW consists of experiential futures workshops with young adults, in which their expectations, hopes, and fears about human-water relations are studied.
OTTERS
Societal transformation for water stewardship via scaling up citizen science by accelerating adoption of standards & piloting spring-to-sea campaigns.
ProBleu
ProBleu supports the Network of European Blue Schools, connecting schools with key scientific disciplines and boosting Ocean and Water Literacy.
SHORE
SHORE provides tools and grants to increase ocean literacy and engage students and teachers in five regions through collaborative projects in schools.
Coordination and Support Actions
BlueMissionAA
BlueMissionAA is the coordination hub that supports the implementation of the Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters in the Atlantic and Arctic basins.
BlueMissionBANOS
BlueMissionBANOS inspires, engages and supports stakeholders across the Baltic and North Sea to reach a carbon-neutral & circular blue economy by connecting national, regional, and transnational actors from policy, industry, science and the public, creating a conducive governance model to innovation.
BlueMissionMed
BlueMissionMed will inspire, inform, assess, mobilise, connect and empower all the actors to prevent and eliminate pollution in the Mediterranean basin.
EcoDaLLi (ECOsystem-based governance with DAnube lighthouse Living Lab for sustainable Innovation processes)
EcoDaLLi centralises governance structures and innovative solutions for the ecological restoration, protection and preservation of the Danube.
PREP4BLUE
PREP4BLUE will set the foundations for co-creating and co-implementing the research and innovation required to achieve Mission Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030.
Digital Twin Ocean
AQUARIUS
Integrating Research Infrastructures – Connecting Scientists – Enabling Transnational Access, for healthy and sustainable marine and freshwater ecosystems.
DIGI4ECO
DTO-BioFlow
DTO BioFlow facilitates the integration of biodiversity monitoring data into the Digital Twin Ocean, as a basis for its biodiversity component.
EDITO-Model Lab
EDITO-Model lab is developing the next generation of ocean models and AI-enriched simulation techniques to be integrated into the European Digital Twin Ocean.
EDITO-Infra
The EDITO-Infra project is building the public infrastructure backbone for the European Digital Twin of the Ocean.
EDNAqua-plan
eDNAqua-Plan aims to collect information on existing projects, initiatives and infrastructures for aquatic monitoring in the EU and associated countries while providing an overview of all national and international activities of standardization and interoperationalization of methods and data workflows.
IDEATION - InlanD watErs in the digitAl TwIn OceaN
IDEATION will prepare the development of the Digital Twin of the inland waters providing a roadmap for its development and integration in the DTO.
European Blue Parks
Blue4ALL (Blueprint demonstration for co-created effective, efficient and resilient networks of MPAs)
Blue4ALL will develop science-based tools for achieving Marine Protected Areas that meet conservation and restoration objectives while addressing the needs and concerns of all stakeholders.
OCEAN CITIZEN
A multidisciplinary approach integrating science and society in marine forest regeneration for ocean management and protection.
PROTECT BALTIC
PROTECT BALTIC enables comprehensive, effective, and efficient protection and restoration measures for a resilient Baltic Sea ecosystem.
Ocean Literacy
Participatory Art for society engagement with Ocean and Water (PartArt4OW)
PartArt4OW focuses on participatory art and creative processes on the belief that participation can bring about a deeper engagement of people with the problem of ocean and water health by performing arts and creative processes.
TIDAL ArtS
TIDAL ArtS unites art, science and communities to increase awareness of the challenges faced by our ocean and inland waters and inspire action to protect and restore them.
Pollution Prevention
iMERMAID
The iMERMAID project will bring together smart solutions to prevent and monitor the pollution of CoEC in the Mediterranean Sea basin.
INSPIRE
We aim to reduce plastic pollution in European rivers. Twenty technologies and actions are being tested in 6 use cases. We prepare a master plan for scaling up the solutions.
NETTAG+ - Preventing, avoiding and mitigating environmental impacts of fishing gears and associated marine litter
NETTAG+ - Preventing, avoiding and mitigating environmental impacts of fishing gears and associated marine litter
PlasticPiratesEU
A citizen science project for young people investigating plastic pollution at European waterways. Uploading data on waste, participants contribute to scientific studies on pollution.
REMEDIES
Co-creating strong uptake of REMEDIES for the future of our oceans through deploying plastic litter valorisation and prevention pathways.
RHE-MEDiation - Responsive hub for long term governance to destress the Mediterranean Sea from chemical pollution
RHE-MEDiation is a EC lighthouse project aiming to establish a responsive hub to destress the Mediterranean Sea hot spots from chemical pollution.
SeaClear2.0
Autonomous, intelligent robots for seafloor and surface marine litter monitoring and collection, and citizen activation for marine litter prevention.
SEARCULAR
SEARCULAR aims at reducing marine litter and microplastics from fisheries by applying a circular design of fishing gears and circular economy.
UPSTREAM
Address the pollution in European rivers by deploying 15 solutions for monitoring, prevention, elimination, and valorisation of collected plastics
Protection and restoration of our ocean and waters
A-AAgora
A-AAGORA - blueprint for atlantic-arctic agora on cross-sectoral cooperation for restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems and increased climate resilience through transformative innovation.
BioProtect: Advancing area-based management tools to accelerate the protection and restoration of marine biodiversity
Co-develop & demonstrate innovative and scalable ecosystem-based solutions to protect & restore ecosystem biodiversity in the Atlantic & Arctic Oceans
CLIMAREST
CLIMAREST aims to present a generalizable framework to enable more efficient and effective restoration of degraded coastal habitats.
DALIA
Developing innovative freshwater solutions, in the Danube Lighthouse, to improve water ecosystems and facilitate decision-making on water management issues.
DANUBE4all
DANUBE4all strives to restore freshwater ecosystems in the Danube River Basin via a scientific, practically-focused Restoration Action Plan.
DaWetRest
DaWetRest develops and demonstrates concrete solutions applied on the Danube basin to address challenges faced by its inland and coastal wetlands.
Effective
Enhancing social well-being and economic prosperity by reinforcing the eFFECTIVEness of protection and restoration management in Mediterranean MPAs
Restore4Life
Restoration of wetland complexes as life supporting systems in the Danube Basin.
Sun-Bio
Protecting marine biodiversity while expanding offshore renewable energy capacity, by developing innovative monitoring technologies to reduce infrastructure impact.
SUNDANSE: Innovative sediment management framework for a SUstainNable DANube black SEa system
The SUNDANSE project will create a comprehensive, accessible handbook on sediment management, focusing on the Danube River and Black Sea system.