The EMFAF supports the EU common fisheries policy (CFP), the EU maritime policy and the EU agenda for international ocean governance. It provides support for developing innovative projects ensuring that aquatic and maritime resources are used sustainably.

The fund helps achieve sustainable fisheries and conserve marine biological resources. This leads to:

• food security through the supply of seafood products
• growth of a sustainable blue economy
• healthy, safe and sustainably managed seas and oceans

This call for proposals has the following main objectives:

1. to increase the participation and representation of women in the different sectors of the sustainable blue economy;
2. to increase knowledge and collect data on women’s contribution to the sustainable blue economy so as to efficiently foster and mainstream gender equality;
3. to promote and advance gender equality in the sustainable blue economy (e.g., countering gender stereotypes, conscious and unconscious bias, promoting equal pay, addressing poor working conditions, etc.) including through promoting blue career opportunities to girls from early education;
4. to promote women’s leadership, entrepreneurship and participation in governance structures and decision-making mechanisms of public and/or private organisations of the sustainable blue economy.

The actions funded under this call will help sustainable blue economy sectors, e.g., fisheries, aquaculture, shipbuilding, maritime transport, offshore renewable energy, blue bioeconomy, inland and offshore aquaculture, etc., to embrace a deep and structural change to facilitate and promote the inclusion of women in the wider maritime economy.

The available call budget is EUR 2 500 000. This budget might be increased by maximum 20%. The costs will be reimbursed at the funding rate fixed in the Grant Agreement (90%)

• Economy-Finances
• Fisheries/ Aquaculture and Maritime Policy

• Associations
• Central Government
• Educational Institutions
• Fishermen, Aquaculturists, Owners of Vessels
• International Organisations
• Large Enterprises
• Legal Entities
• Local Authorities
• NGOs
• Non Profit Organisations
• Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
• Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
• State-owned Enterprises

For more information, please contact the EU Contact Point.

Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries

https://ec.europa.eu/oceans-and-fisheries/contact-form_en

European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA)

https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/contact-0_en

CINEA-EMFAF-CALLS@ec.europa.eu

Telephone: +32 (0)2 299 5252

• Funding & Tenders Portal
• Call Document