Funding provided under previews programmes.

The main aim of this Open Call, part of the SEACURE project is expanding the reach of its value innovations and project outcomes and demonstrating the viability, adaptability, and scalability of the project’s solutions in new geographic regions, with particular focus on Euro-Mediterranean geographic regions not represented within SEACURE demos.

The SEACURE Open Call for ARs is allocated a total budget of €700.000, which will be distributed as direct financial support to 7 winning ARs.

Each organization or consortium may receive a maximum of €100.000 in funding through grants from SEACURE. Successful proposals will receive the requested financial contribution in the form of a lump sum, a global amount intended to cover all costs of the action.

• Environment and Climate Change
• Research, Technological Development and Innovation
• Water - Management of Water Resources

• Central Government
• Legal Entities
• Local Authorities
• Semi-governmental organisations
• State-owned Enterprises

Eligible beneficiaries for SEACURE Open Call for ARs are regional/local public authorities involved in land and/or wastewater management from regions situated in basins with similar nutrient pollution problems (Mediterranean basin and beyond).

These authorities must be from the following countries:

• The Member States of the European Union, except for Spain, Italy, Greece, Austria, and Belgium, as these countries are already part of the project consortium. Germany, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Finland, France, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania, and Sweden are eligible for this Call.
• Third countries associated to Horizon Europe. Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Canada* (Pilar II), Faroe Islands, Georgia, Iceland, Israel, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, New Zealand* (Pilar II), North Macedonia, Norway, Republic of Korea, Serbia, Tunisia, Türkiye, Ukraine, United Kingdom*, Egypt, Morocco and Switzerland.

Participants from countries that are part of the Project Consortium, Spain, Italy, Greece, Austria and Belgium are NOT eligible for this funding. Other Third countries are NOT eligible for this Call.

SEACURE Open Call for ARs will fund projects to individual organizations or consortiums representing public authorities involved in local and regional land and/or wastewater management, including:

• Municipal governments
• Regional authorities, provincial councils, counties, delegations, or similar public bodies
• Metropolitan authorities or inter-municipal cooperation bodies
• Environmental Agencies
• Water and sewerage authorities
• Other Public Authorities or Agencies with proven responsibilities affecting nutrient management

Private entities are not permitted to join the consortium. However, once local or regional authorities have been awarded the contract, it may consider alternative collaboration methods with these entities, such as subcontracting.

Any doubts, questions, requests, enquiries, or complaints regarding this SEACURE open call must be addressed to the designated contact mailbox available on the SEACUE website, in the Open Call section at the following link Open Call – Seacure.

• Funding & Tenders
• SEACURE website
• Call Document