Open Call 2: REMEDIES Innovation Program “Prevention & Zero Waste”

REMEDIES is a Horizon Mission Program co-funded by the European Commission, under the Mission OCEAN Horizon Europe program, with the aim of co-creating solutions for a plastic free future of the oceans, through deploying actions that prevent the plastic litter and implementing solutions for the valorization and zero-waste pathways. REMEDIES overall objective is to create a trend of plastic prevention by exploitation of traditional and modern channels and reach a zero-waste reality. Along with the engagement of citizens and developing technology and science that fosters the co-creation of participatory processes towards a common goal: restore the oceans. REMEDIES aims to build a more plastic-conscious society and give initial tools to local or regional authorities to promote actions to tackle these challenges that start locally but have a global impact, by monitoring and collecting plastic litter, as well as preventing the generation of litter in the first place and enabling replication of these actions in associated regions.

The overall objective of REMEDIES and these Open calls is to showcase the feasibility and replicability and scale up of the solutions developed within the project in the associated regions. REMEDIES aims to create a trend on the prevention of plastic through the exploitation of traditional and modern channels and through citizen science and participatory co-creation processes building a more plastic-conscious society.

Objectives 

• OC2 “Prevention & Zero Waste” is focused on projects / applications whose main goal is to support the development of circular, zero-waste supply chains and systems that will promote the prevention of plastic litter, with focus on ocean and rivers connected directly or indirectly with the Mediterranean.

Type of Support 

• REMEDIES OC2 will provide a total of € 300.000.00 in financial support, with each individual applicant allowed to request up to a maximum of € 100.000.00.
• Type of support provided to the applicants that are successfully selected in OC2:
  • Access to tools and resources
  • Tutorials, mentors, and access to REMEDIES webinars and promoted activities, relevant to the applicant
  • Networking & connections with key ecosystem stakeholders
  • Access to use-cases to pilot their solutions

Eligibility Criteria

• To be an eligible applicant you should comply with the following requirements:
  • Goals and actions alignment: The application must be aligned with the goal of the REMEDIES project and Open Calls objectives. The project goal and actions must demonstrate a closed set of activities that qualify for financial support. The proposal must keep the focus on engaging ‘Associated regions’ in the Mediterranean that share similar ecosystems (e.g., neighbouring regions or regions in a different sea basin) and/or less-developed regions, to build capacity to implement the innovative solutions to solve issues and needs, aligned with the ones tackled by the REMEDIES project.
  • Type of organization: the applicant has to be a Local or Regional authority (public organization). Technical providers, SMEs, start-up and other private companies cannot be considered local or regional authorities and hence cannot be recipients of the OC2 grant. The awarded applicant that has the legal status of a local or regional authority may explore ways of collaborating with such entities, in conformity with all applicable national legislation and public procurement rules, to the benefit of implementing the proposed project or achieving strong impact. These collaborations should be balanced and follow the principle of complementarity.
  • Geographical location of the applicant organization: The applicant organization must be located in a Member State and/or Participating Country associated with Horizon Europe but excluding the countries of the partners of the REMEDIES project consortium.
    • Eligible: Mediterranean countries (linked directly or indirectly to the Mediterranean), such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Romania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Ukraine, Moldova, Israel.
    • Non-eligible regions are all the countries, in which the REMEDIES project partners are based: Albania, Belgium, Croatia, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Morocco, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain.
    • Non-eligible regions: OC2 applicants cannot be from the same regions as the OC1 beneficiaries/winners, Malta (MT0 Malta) & Portugal (Norte, NUTS II).
  • One single application: Only one application can be submitted by the same entity.
  • Language: All documents must be filled and submitted in English language, including the document that confirms this legal status as local and regional authority.

For more information, visit REMEDIES.