The Cofund proposal resulting from the collaboration between JPI Oceans and former ERA-NET MARTEC was accepted by the European Commission and is expected to launch a call of approximately 30 million euro in the fall of 2016.
The new ERA-NET Cofund MarTERA will be coordinated by Filiz Aslan of Project Management Jülich (Germany). The other partners in MarTERA are: Argentina, Belarus, Belgium (Flanders), Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Turkey.
The deadline foreseen for the signature of the grant agreement between the MarTERA partners and the European Commission is 24 September 2016. MarTERA will have a focus on innovation and technology development for a wide range of marine and maritime applications.