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The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership is updating its Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda. Energy Transition Partnership members are invited to share fisheries and aquaculture priorities and help shape future blue economy research and innovation. Deadline: 11 September 2026.

We would like to draw your attention to the CEF-Digital call for submarine cable repair capacities, open until 8 October 2026

Funding is available for desk studies (up to €150,000) and medium-scale research projects (up to €300,000) across eight priority topics under Ireland's Ocean Knowledge 2030 strategy.

New opportunity for the ETP community to share views on the future of the EU waterborne sector.

From 1–3 July 2026, experts from across Northern Europe gathered in Hamburg to exchange knowledge on cumulative impact assessment, strengthen cross-border collaboration, establish a new Community of Practice, and advance harmonised, science-based approaches for sustainable maritime spatial planning

Europe’s Sea Basins and Macro-Regions are shifting from strategy to delivery - strengthening blue skills, maritime innovation and cross‑basin cooperation. EU Strategies Days 2026 shows how collaboration is powering Europe’s resilient, competitive blue economy.

The Enhancing Coordination and Synergies in the Field of Ocean Observation in the EU (ECOO) study, commissioned by the European Commission, has completed the first phase of its work with the publication of four complementary overviews of the European ocean observation landscape.

Cross-border collaboration is key to restoring shared marine ecosystems. A new task group under the GNSBI Working Track Nature, is developing an implementation-ready oyster restoration project for the Greater North Sea Basin by 2027.

We asked the Group Coordinators of the Energy Transition Partnership for EU Fisheries & Aquaculture how they see decarbonisation in their sector.