Funding Radar: This week’s round up of calls for research in water and maritime protection

23 Jul 2024 | News

Here’s a list of funding opportunities in the EU, Germany, UK, Japan, US and Canada

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In 2021, the EU adopted ‘Mission Starfish 2030: Restore our Ocean and Waters’ as one of the five Horizon Europe Missions.

The Starfish Mission to restore and protect marine and freshwater ecosystems through targeted actions and research, follows on from other initiatives dating back to 1993, through which the EU has applied a mixture of legislation, funding, research and international cooperation, in a bid to protect aquatic ecosystems.

In 2000, the EU adopted the Water Framework Directive to protect and enhance the quality of water resources, setting the objective of all water bodies reaching "good status".

Then in 2008, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive had the objective of promoting action by member states to reach “good environmental status” for marine waters by 2020, and to protect the resources on which…