De Moor, W.

De Raedemaecker, F.

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Poster General session 
JPI Oceans - The Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas 
and Oceans 
De Moor Willem
1
 and De Raedemaecker Fien
2 
1
  JPI Oceans secretariat, Troonstraat, Brussel  
 E-mail: Willem.demoor@jpi-oceans.eu  
2
  Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), InnovOcean site, Wandelaarkaai 7, 8400 Oostende, Belgium 
 
The Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans (JPI Oceans) is an 
intergovernmental initiative launched by the Council of the European Union in 2011 to provide a strategic 
policy platform for a long-term European approach to marine and maritime research and technology 
developments. JPI Oceans currently brings together 21 European countries (representatives from 
ministries and research funding agencies), who invest in marine and maritime research and covers all 
European sea basins. 
 
JPI Oceans adds to the value and impact of national R&D and innovation investments by: 
- aligning national policy priorities, strategies, policies, competences and programmes; 
- driving scientific excellence through mission oriented joint actions; 
- building trust and encouraging new forms of collaboration and partnership between local, regional, 
national and European policymakers, research funding agencies, research performing organizations, 
international initiatives and other stakeholders; 
- fostering and testing new cooperative tools and innovative approaches and science-policy cooperation 
with stakeholder involvement to translate science into policy. 
 
JPI Oceans has launched a number of actions, above and beyond joint calls for proposals, testing different 
approaches and new collaborative tools that are fit for purpose and working towards the alignment of 
national programmes. In each action, one or two countries take the lead, driving the process in 
partnership with the other participating countries. 
 
Current actions include: 
- Ecological aspects of microplastics: JPI Oceans has mobilized funding of €7.7M from 10 countries 
for a joint call to address this emerging issue. 
- Technology and Sensor Developments MarTERA ERA-Net Cofund: JPI Oceans has supported a new 
ERA-Net Cofund on maritime and marine technologies and Blue Growth, which launched its first call 
(€30M) in December 2016. 
- Blue Bioeconomy ERA-Net Cofund: through JPI Oceans, and in collaboration with ERA-Nets COFASP 
and MarineBiotech, 22 funding agencies from 17 member countries have announced the ambition to 
commit around €30M to fund research and innovation that will support the development of a 
sustainable and climate-friendly blue Bioeconomy. 
- Ecological aspects of Deep Sea Mining: for the second phase of the action, 5 JPI Oceans member 
countries launched on 1st August 2017, a joint call (€6M) on Impacts of Deep-Sea Nodule Mining with 
possible in-kind contributions from other countries. 
- Munitions in the Sea: providing scientific support to agencies addressing these risks, assessing 
available and new detection technologies and exchanging knowledge and practices. 
- Intercalibration for the EU Water Framework Directive: proving comparability of assessment 
methods in different countries, by engaging experts, increasing experience with joint data collection 
and analyses and providing cost-efficient scientific support to policy. 
- European Marine Sensor Calibration: pursuing metrological sound ocean measurements and 
instruments capable of continuous operation within known parameters during prolonged deployment 
in harsh conditions. 
- Food and Nutrition Security: JPI Oceans cooperates with JPI FACCE and JPI HDHL towards the launch 
of a Knowledge Hub. 
 
Keywords: JPI Oceans; alignment national programmes; joint actions 
  


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