“Digitalisation and Innovation for Resilient Marine Ecosystems Businesses, and Communities to Strengthen the EU Blue Economy’s Competitiveness.”

The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership is a Horizon Europe co-funded partnership. It constitutes a network of 30 countries and the European Commission that enables an unprecedented effort to pool research and innovation investments and align national programmes at pan-European scale.

Xjenza Malta, as one of the Research Funding Organisations launching this Joint Transnational Co-Funded Call and will be financially supporting R&I projects addressing challenges on the following priority areas:

• Digital Twins- development and use
• Transitioning Blue Economy Sectors
• Managing Sea Uses
• Blue Bioresources
• Resilient Coastal Communities and Businesses

Malta-Based Entities are eligible for funding, with the option of requesting up to €500,000 to participate in a SBEP proposal consortium*.

For further information on this year’s call, kindly refer to the Call Text , as well as the National Rules for Participation for State Aid and Non-State Aid.

Pre-proposal submission deadline – 17 November 2025, 15:00 CET

Apart from the pre-proposal submission by the Project Coordinator on the EPSS, each National applicant shall be required to submit a National Application Form to eusubmissions.xjenzamalta@gov.mt by 17^th November 2025 at 23:59 CET.

Please access the National Application Form here . The corresponding annexes need to be submitted whenever relevant can be accessed from the Xjenza Malta Resource Page.

An online information session will be held on the 3^rd of October; Register Here.

An information session was held in order to disseminate call information and provide further guidance. The presentation utilised during the session can be downloaded from here: Click the link to download the presentation. whilst the recording is here: Click the link to see the recording.

We are more than pleased to arrange one-on-one meetings to explore and discuss this funding opportunity in greater detail, kindly contact international.xjenzamalta@gov.mt.

* If more than one National partner is present in one consortium, the total amount of funding for the participating National partners cannot exceed the €500,000 capping.