EMFAF – Maritime spatial planning (MSP) Projects – 2023

Objectives

• To facilitate the implementation of Maritime Spatial Planning in the EU, including through the effective application of Directive 2014/89 establishing a framework for MSP
• To fund projects developing innovative responses to tackle specific challenges that EU Members States might encounter when putting into effect, monitoring and/or revising their maritime spatial plans

Priorities

• Priority 1: To develop strategies and approaches to review/revise maritime spatial plans to make them future proof, more integrated and more coherent, especially in a sea basin context
• Priority 2: To facilitate/enable the development of marine protected areas and economic sectors in the maritime domain
• Priority 3: To design maritime spatial plans to integrate objectives and measures of other EU instruments with the aim to reduce collective and cumulative pressures and ensuring that marine ecosystems are in a healthy, productive and resilient condition
• Priority 4: To analyse how maritime spatial plans identified and addressed existing and potential tensions between different sectors

Among financed actions

• Specific activities aimed at implementing provisions set out in articles 6, 7, 8, and 9 of the MSP Directive, including the review and/or revisions or maritime spatial plans
• Specific activities aimed at implementing provisions set out in article 10 of the MSP Directive (Data use and sharing)
• Specific activities aimed at implementing provisions set out in article 11 of the MSP Directive (Cooperation among Member States)
• Specific activities aimed at implementing provisions set out in article 12 of the MSP Directive (Cooperation with third countries)

Additional information

• This call for proposals is an open call for proposals.
• Initial duration of the action: between 24 and 48 months

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a public or private entity
• Be endorsed by the public authorities or bodies in charge of maritime spatial planning at national level in the related coastal Member States
• Be public authorities or bodies in charge of maritime spatial planning of coastal Member States

• Total budget of the call: 4 million euro
• Amount of the grant: between 1 million and 2.5 million euro
• Co-financing rate: up to 80% of the total eligible costs