The “Regional Lighthouse Access Call”, first of two, will open from the 11th of November, 2024 to the 20th of January, 2025. The ambition is to foster large-scale, multidisciplinary projects that support research and innovation activities that address scientific challenges in the EU Mission Lighthouse Regions and related river basins. The AQUARIUS team have analysed priority knowledge and data gaps in these regions to inform the scope of the first call.

The thematic and geographic scope of the transnational access calls are related to the concept of the EU Mission Ocean and Waters area-based “Lighthouses” in major sea/river basins: Atlantic-Arctic, Mediterranean Sea, Baltic-North Sea, and Danube-Black Sea, each prioritising one of the three Mission objectives:

• The Atlantic-Arctic and the Danube & Black Sea regions focus on protecting and restoring aquatic ecosystems
• The Baltic & North Sea is focused on making the blue economy carbon neutral and circular
• The Mediterranean Sea targets preventing and eliminating marine pollution.

For more details on these Funding Calls, visit this page: https://aquarius-ri.eu/access/