To honour excellent projects that strenghten the Blue Economy in the WestMED region
Four categories will be featured in this year’s WestMED Project Awards, based on the western Mediterranean Roadmap priorities:
This includes projects targeting coastal and maritime tourism, sustainable maritime transport, marine renewable energies, innovation -e.g. blue bio-technology- and support for entrepreneurship, creation of maritime clusters.
This includes projects targeting pollution control at sea and land-based level, protection of coastal and marine ecosystems and combating coastal erosion and habitat degradation, maritime safety and governance of the sea.
This includes projects targeting sustainable aquaculture development, environmentally friendly fishing practices and fleets and upgrading of the production chain.
This includes projects targeting training and education on maritime issues, networks of maritime research and scientific information sharing.
All category winners will receive:
Project applications may be submitted by any public authority, professional, entrepreneur, organisation, centre of excellence/research institution, maritime cluster, association or NGO that:
Download the guidelines here. You’ll find further details on key dates, criteria, selection procedure, and so on.
Complete the online application form here. Deadline: 27 September 2021.
You shall get a confirmation email once you’ve submitted your application.