The Joint Programming Initiative Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans (JPI Oceans) is a coordinating and integrating long-term platform, open to all EU Member States and Associated Countries who invest in marine and maritime research.
While bringing together the interested Member States and Associated Countries the JPI Oceans aims to add value by: - avoiding fragmentation and unnecessary duplication - planning common and flexible initiatives - facilitating cooperation and foresighting - establishing efficient mechanisms for interaction and knowledge transfer between the scientific community, industry & services, and policy makers at high level to more effectively solve the grand challenges.
In its role as a coordination platform, JPI Oceans will focus on making better and more efficient use of national research budgets, which represent 85% of the marine-maritime funding within Europe. One of the JPI’s goals is to develop joint research programs in which countries can be involved on a voluntarily basis (variable geometry). Participating countries will also decide what contribution to make: this may include institutional, project-related or new funds.
JPI Oceans was founded in 2011 by Belgium, Norway and Spain. JPI Oceans now has 19 member states.
Belgium is represented in the JPI Oceans by BELSPO and the Departement Economie, Wetenschap en Innovatie (EWI) of the Flemish government.
JPI Oceans calls in which BELSPO participates and funds projects:
Belspo is also involved in the following JPI Oceans Knowledge Hubs:
JPI Oceans participates in the European Green Deal through the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership (SBEP), and the Horizon Europe Mission Restore our Oceans and Waters. It is also involved in the EU4Ocean Coalition for Ocean Literacy, the European Ocean Observing System (EOOS), and the All-Atlantic Ocean Research Alliance.
Koen Lefever
Belgian Science Policy
Reseach Programmes
Tel : +32 (0)2 238 35 51
