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Twelve new projects approved

11 December 2018 - Published by Anne Sofie Forfang
The Programme Steering Committee has approved 12 new projects that address core challenges and opportunities in the North Sea Region. In addition, three on-going projects were granted extensions.

On 11 December, the Steering Committee approved 12 projects amongst the 15 full applications that were submitted in Call 7. This call thus saw an approval rate of 80%.

Pending formal decision letters from the Joint Secretariat, the projects can now start preparing for their implementation.

The approved projects are listed below.

undefined   FBD Futures By Design
undefined   BLING Blockchain in Government
undefined   CircPro2 Circular Procurement: Accelerate circular economy through procurement power, alliance- and capacity building.
undefined   OESA Ocean Energy Scale-up Alliance
undefined   SOILCOM Sustainable soils by quality compost with defined properties
undefined   AC/DC Advancing Coordination of future low-carbon energy grid Development in Cities (on the condition the project changes its acronym)
undefined   EMPOWER2.0 Empowering the citizens - Towards European Energy Market 2.0 (Enabling More People’s OWnership in Energy tRansition)
undefined   C5A Cluster for Cloud to Coast Climate Change Adaptation
undefined   GEANS Genetic tools for Ecosystem health Assessment in the North Sea region
undefined   ART-Forum Automated Road Transport Forum for the North Sea Region 
undefined   BITS Bicycles and ITS
undefined   Stronger Combined (SC) Combined Mobility in the rural public transport system to build sustainable rural public services in symbiosis with private mobility providers and citizens

In addition, three projects were granted extensions: DUAL PortsSHARE-North and CUPIDO.

At the Secretariat, we are looking forward to working with the new projects and continuing our support to the extended ones. We wish them all the best of luck!