Project description
Restoring the Mediterranean basin through innovation and collaboration
The Mediterranean faces severe pressures from climate change, pollution, and biodiversity loss. The EU-funded MEDCONNECT lighthouse project will address these threats by supporting the EU’s Mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters’, aiming to restore marine ecosystems and create a climate-neutral blue economy. The project will operate through 14 national hubs and three regional living labs in Croatia, Cyprus and Spain, where 15 innovative solutions will be refined under real coastal conditions. MEDCONNECT will further mobilise investments, implement digital monitoring, and promote behavioural change to ensure social acceptance. By building local capacity and fostering basin-wide collaboration, the project’s goal is to establish a permanent innovation ecosystem, ensuring long-term Mediterranean resilience and sustainable environmental health.
Objective
The Mediterranean faces pressures from climate change, pollution, biodiversity degradation and overexploitation. MEDCONNECT combats these challenges and enhances the 1st phase of Mission Ocean and waters in the Mediterranean basin, focusing on all Mission’s objectives -restoring marine & freshwater ecosystems & biodiversity, eliminating pollution, making blue economy climate-neutral & circular. The project covers the Mediterranean with 22 Partners from 15 countries, organized in 3 regional (Western, Central, Eastern) and 15 National Hubs. MEDCONNECT focuses on mobilizing investments in the 3 regional systems to accelerate deployment of solutions relevant to Mission’s objectives. Embedded Ecosystem Transformation mobilises local 5-Helix stakeholders and secures collaboration with EU & Med initiatives, while targeted Behavioural Change ensures that solutions are socially accepted. A Digital Monitoring Framework, that brings together EU authoritative sources and citizen-science into an open architecture Portal, supports the Mediterranean Lighthouse governance, environmental monitoring, citizen engagement, and co-creation across Hubs. The core of MEDCONNET is the 3 Regional Living Lab Systems (ES, AL, CY), each focusing on a Mission objective, where stakeholders and citizens jointly refine 15 selected solutions under real coastal conditions, accelerating adoption. Tailored Capacity Building provides local stakeholders with the necessary technical skills and capacities to operate & upscale the innovative solutions. MEDCONNECT implements investment mobilization activities, for solutions to get financed and deployed in real socio-economic systems, thus contributing to Mission’s Impact realization. A Dissemination, Exploitation & Communication Strategy secures basin-wide awareness and citizen involvement, towards a permanent ecosystem that implements all Mission Objectives, sustains innovation uptake and strengthens Mediterranean resilience beyond the project’s lifetime.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- social sciences sociology governance
- natural sciences biological sciences ecology ecosystems freshwater ecosystems
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences environmental sciences pollution
- natural sciences earth and related environmental sciences atmospheric sciences climatology climatic changes
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Programme(s)
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Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
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HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
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HORIZON.2.2 - Culture, creativity and inclusive society
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HORIZON.2.1 - Health
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HORIZON.2.4 - Digital, Industry and Space
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HORIZON.2.3 - Civil Security for Society
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HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.
HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support Actions
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Call for proposal
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Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.
(opens in new window) HORIZON-MISS-2025-03
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6300 Larnaca
Cyprus
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