EMFAF – Funding call open – Women in the Blue Economy (EMFAF-2022-PIA-WBE)

Budget: The available budget is €2,500,000

This call for proposals has the following main objectives:

1. to increase the participation and representation of women in the different sectors of the sustainable blue economy
2. to increase knowledge and collect data on women’s contribution to the sustainable blue economy so as to efficiently foster and mainstream gender equality;
3. to promote and advance gender equality in the sustainable blue economy (e.g., countering gender stereotypes, conscious and unconscious bias, promoting equal pay, addressing poor working conditions, etc.) including through promoting blue career opportunities to girls from early education;
4. to promote women’s leadership, entrepreneurship and participation in governance structures and decision-making mechanisms of public and/or private organisations of the sustainable blue economy;

The actions funded under this call will help sustainable blue economy sectors e.g; fisheries, aquaculture, shipbuilding, maritime transport, offshore renewable energy, blue bioeconomy, inland and offshore aquaculture, etc., to embrace a deep and structural change to facilitate and promote the inclusion of women in the wider maritime economy.
 

To view more information on specific topics in which the projects are expected to contribute to, please click here.

To view more information on the funding call, please click here.