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BLUE NETWORKS IN THE MED

Launch of the Sustainable Blue Economy Call under EMFF 09th November 2017 - Brussels

Luca MARANGONI (DG MARE, A3) Charlotte JAGOT (EASME, A3 – EMFF)

#EMFF17

BLUE NETWORKS IN THE MED:

JOB CREATION, INNOVATION AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE BLUE ECONOMY

OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA

BLUE NETWORKS IN THE MED Challenges and opportunities

• Fragmentation

• Critical mass for innovation

• Brain circulation

• Empowerment of local communities

• Existing initiatives

• North-South and South-South cooperation

To accelerate the development of the blue economy in the Mediterranean through closer cooperation between public and private maritime stakeholders.

It will support skills, innovation, entrepreneurship as well as job diversification and local communities' empowerment.

BLUE NETWORKS IN THE MED Objectives of the strands

GENERAL OBJECTIVES

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE A

EDUCATION AND SKILLS

To promote networking and collaboration between marine and/or maritime, port and logistics-related education and training institutes in the Mediterranean to develop relevant skills and promote maritime professions in cooperation with business and public authorities.

BLUE NETWORKS IN THE MED Specific Objectives


• Setting-up an appropriate networking mechanism between education and training organisations

• Promoting cooperation with private sector and public authorities and identify needs and joint actions to develop maritime skills and professions

• Defining common education and training programmes (qualification standards), sharing and pooling resources, mutual recognition of qualifications and skills

• Raising the awareness about and attractiveness of maritime professions including career guidance towards citizens, students and young people

BLUE NETWORKS IN THE MED Activities


• Sustainable networking cooperation mechanism in place between education and training organisations to identify common needs and launch concrete activities;

• New education and training programmes agreed/developed with common standards of qualifications;

• Pilot/tested new common education and training programmes (including pooling of infrastructures and sharing resources);

• Pilot exchange programmes and study visits of students/trainees and teachers started/realised.

BLUE NETWORKS IN THE MED Expected Outputs


• Enhanced cooperation and new synergies between the sectors of education, training and business in the Mediterranean;

• New high quality common education and training offer matching the local or regional needs of the blue economy in the Mediterranean;

• Increased student/teachers mobility between education and training organisations and business;

• Improved ocean literacy and increased visibility and attractiveness of maritime professions.

BLUE NETWORKS IN THE MED Expected impacts


SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE B

COOPERATION BETWEEN MARITIME CLUSTERS

To promote networking between maritime clusters in the Mediterranean to produce concrete results in terms of maritime innovation and maritime technologies, business development and innovation (including boosters, business angels and start-ups)

BLUE NETWORKS IN THE MED Objectives


• Establishing a networking mechanism between and driven by maritime clusters

• Promoting cooperation between key actors of maritime clusters and financial intermediaries

• Undertaking joint investment in research and innovation, developing cluster strategies, improving cluster management practices

• Strengthening cluster services to business (e.g. boosters and business angel services, business services), facilitating access to finance

• Capacity-building and knowledge transfer



• Sustainable networking mechanism in place between maritime clusters that reinforce the clusters' innovation capacity and services to business;

• Cluster strategies developed;

• Concrete North-South partnerships and joint projects/investments launched;

• Provision of business services and facilitated access to finance for clusters' partners.



• Improved technology/research uptake by the market;

• Improved business model innovation;

• Increased investment in maritime economic activities.



SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE C:

EMPOWERING LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN THE WEST MED

Pilot twinning of fisheries local coastal communities in the western Mediterranean based on the Community-Led Local Development (CLLD) approach to produce concrete results in areas such as diversification of fishing activities, both within and outside commercial fisheries and including tourism, pesca-tourism, sustainable aquaculture development and skills development, with a particular emphasis on women and youth.

BLUE NETWORKS IN THE MED Objectives

SPECIFIC OBJECTIVE C

• Establishing coastal/fisheries local communities in the Southern partner countries of the western Mediterranean

• Promoting cooperation between local private and public stakeholders, identification of local needs

• Strengthening the participation of fisheries communities and civil society in the decision making processes at local level, in particular in relation to the governance of local fisheries resources and maritime activities

• Proposing twinning and awareness-raising activities such as promoting transnational cooperation, skills' development, exchanges and study visits, supporting women and young people, social well-being and cultural heritage, climate change mitigation and adaptation.



• Fisheries/coastal local action groups established in the western Mediterranean based on the CLLD approach;

• Community-led local strategies developed;

• New concrete cooperation projects and twinning activities identified/undertaken.



• Increased participation of local actors in decision-making processes and in the governance of local fisheries resources and maritime activities;

• Increased diversification of jobs in the targeted local/coastal communities;

• Empowerment of communities in the Western Mediterranean including young people and women;

• Improved quality of the marine environment and environmental performance of fisheries in the area concerned.



Other activities:

• Evaluation method to measure contribution of projects results to the expected impacts

• Measures to ensure the sustainability of the project

• Measures to seek complementarity and synergies with other projects initiatives

Applicants may propose complementary activities they deem necessary to achieve the objectives of this strand.

BLUE NETWORKS IN THE MED

BLUE NETWORKS IN THE MED : PRACTICAL ASPECTS

Geographical eligibility:

EU Member States AND MED partner country*

Coordinator must be from an EU MS

Additional requirements :

A. Min 3 partners: 2 from different EU MS and 1 from MED

B. Min 3 partners : from EU MS and from MED countries. Among these, 2 partners must qualify as maritime clusters + another legal entity

A. Min 2 partners: one FLAG from 1 EU WESTMED MS and 1 partner from WESTMED country

*for objective c) only those countries participating to WestMed

ELIGIBILITY section 3 of the strand

ELIGIBILITY section 3 of the strand

Eligible applicants:

Eligible applicants active in blue economy and related sectors (section 3.1)

Type of applicants will depend on each of the specific objective addressed (education institutes, business, clusters, fisheries local action groups…)

BEWARE: reaching 50% for each criterion is not enough –

Minimum overall mark is 65%

AWARD CRITERIA section 4 of the strand

Name of the award criterion Minimum pass score

Maximum score

1. Relevance and Added Value 20 40

2. Project Implementation 12.5 25

3. Cost-Effectiveness 5 10

4. Impact 12.5 25

Total 65 100

1) RELEVANCE AND ADDED VALUE

1.1) Relevance of the proposal (max 20 pts):

Justification for solution/approach including identifying the specific needs/challenges and reflecting the socio-economic conditions in place;

Building on a needs/gaps analysis and a clear link between needs, objectives, proposed activities and expected results and impacts.


1.2) Added Value (20 pts):

Involvement of Mediterranean partner countries;

Synergies/complementarity with existing projects, EU policies, and other relevant initiatives;

Direct contribution to the objectives/priorities of an existing sea basin or macro-regional strategy/initiative (e.g. Western Mediterranean Initiative, the EU Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Region and the Union for the Mediterranean) – up to 7 points.



4) IMPACT (20pts):

Impact, communication, dissemination and exploitation

Method for evaluating the project results;

Cooperate with stakeholders (industry/businesses, local community, NGOs) necessary and/or relevant for the project;

Communication and dissemination.

Sustainability

concrete measures to sustain the project outputs/results

after the end of the EU funding.

Transferability and multiplier effect

Potential for transferability of the solutions/methodology/approach

to other areas/regions/domains.

Submission Deadline: 28/02/2018

Evaluation period: Mar–Jul 2018

Information to applicants: Aug–Sep 2018

Grant Agreement preparation: Sep–Dec 2018

Start of the project(s): Jan 2019

INDICATIVE

TIMETABLE

PAYMENTS

Pre-financing 40% within 30 days after signature by EASME

Interim payment 30% of the grant amount will be made within 60 days of receipt and approval by the EASME of an interim report

Balance payment will be made within 60 days of receipt and approval by the EASME of the final report

PAYMENTS & REPORTS section 11 of the call

REPORTS

Progress reports: Six-monthly technical progress reports

Interim report is due within 60 days

of the end of the interim period (12 months or 18 months)

Final report is due within 60 days of the end of the project duration.

Report on the distribution of the EU financial contribution within 60 days of balance payment

What is at stake?

Increased capacity-building for skills, business and empowerment of local communities and diversification of jobs

What do we expect?

Towards common education/training offer, better awareness of "blue economy" careers, business services to enterprises through clusters, strengthening the participation of local actors in the governance of fisheries

Total budget and co-financing rate: € 3.000.000 - 80%

Grant range per project: a) EUR 400.000 – 500.000, b) EUR

500.000 – 700.000, c) EUR 300.000 – 400.000

Min 1 project to be funded per specific objective and approx 6 projects expected

Duration of projects: 24 or 36 months

Deadline for submission: 28/02/2018

SNAPSHOT

More information

ANY QUESTION?

Useful links:

Call for proposals webpage:

https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/sustainable-blue-economy

FAQs:

https://ec.europa.eu/easme/en/frequently-asked-questions-emff-calls-proposals

Beginner's guide from DG BUDG:

http://ec.europa.eu/budget/funding/index_en

















http://ec.europa.eu/budget/funding/index_en

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

#EMFF17

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