Call deadline. Oceans: Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation
July 22
The European Interest Group (EIG) CONCERT-Japan will launce a joint call for proposals, titled Oceans: Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation. Call deadline is 22th of July 2025, results will be announced December 2025 and projects can start Aprill 2026.
This call focuses on research that contributes to global warming mitigation and adaptation in marine environments. This is done through a dual focus on blue carbon ecosystems research for CO2 removal as a mitigation strategy as well as research for advancing our understanding of ocean processes to inform climate change adaptation strategies.
The call in the CONCERT programme works in same way as Horizon2020 ERA-NETS and Horizon Europe partnerships – each country finances the participation of researchers.
Each project consortium submitting an application should consist of at least 3 eligible beneficiaries (project partners), including at least 1 from Japan and at least 2 from two different European countries participating in the Joint Call. Estonian host institution must be a positively evaluated R&D institution that is a legal entity registered in Estonia. List of evaluated institutions is provided in the Estonian Research Information System (ETIS).
Additionally to Estonia and Japan the following countries have also joined the call: Bugaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Türkiye.
Estonian participants are financed by ETAG in the amount of 100,000 euros (standard project partner) or 300,000 euros (coordinator) – even if there is more than one Estonian partner in one project. I case of multible Estonian partners, all have to meet the national PI eligibility criteriums.
In order to facilitate the process of forming research consortia, we offer applicants a Partner Search Tool. This tool can be used by project consortia looking for additional partners and researchers looking for project consortia to join.
Call text can be found here.
Guidelines for the call.
Official call announcement on EIG-CONCERT programme website.
More information in ETAG:
Katrin Saar
Katrin.saar@etag.ee
(+372) 5333 5625