JPI Oceans
Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans
The seas and oceans provide an essential part of our wealth and well-being. To give an example: The EU's maritime regions account for around 40% of its GDP and the maritime economy for 3 to 5%. The fast growing global population will increasingly depend on marine food sources (including sustainable aquaculture). Moreover, oceans and seas offer a large unexploited potential from underexplored marine biodiversity and marine renewable energy and play a crucial role in developing transport modalities and tourism activities. The oceans and seas are also under huge pressure from human activities and climate change. The growing vulnerability of coastal areas, increasingly crowded coastal waters, the key role of the oceans in the climate and earth system as well as the continuous deterioration of the marine environment all call for a stronger focus and concerted effort on our oceans and seas.The Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans (JPI Oceans) covers all European sea basins with 21 participating countries which provide a long-term integrated approach to marine and maritime research and technology development in Europe.
Important documents
- JPI Oceans Implementation Plan (draft version, 2014)
- Mapping and preliminary analysis of infrastructures, observation data and human capacity building (2014)
- Mapping and preliminary analysis of policy needs for evidence (2014)
- Mapping of maritime research and innovation strategies and funding (2014)
- JPI Oceans Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, 2015-2020 (2015)
- Mapping of science landscape and preliminary analysis (2016)
Joint Actions
Joint Actions are initiated to implement the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda of JPI Oceans. The size and scope of each action varies, depending on the research needs. The method used, depends upon the objective.Possible methods are -for example- national funding, human resources capacity building, modelling and research alliances.
Calls
2020: AquaticPollutants Joint Call with JPI Water and JPIAMR;
2020: Call on knowledge transfer of research on Aquatic Pollutants with JPI Water and JPIAMR;
2020: MarTERA joint call on marine and maritime technologies;
2019: Joint Transnational Call on Next Generation Climate Science in Europe for Oceans (Closed) with JPI Climate;
2019: Knowledge Hub on Food and Nutrition Security together with JPI HDHL and FACCE-JPI;
2018: Blue Bioeconomy;
2018: MarTERA Call;
2018: Joint call for proposals on microplastics in the marine environment, together with Latvia and Brazil;