COFASP Call open!
On the 1st of February 2014 the COFASP Call will open. The overall budget amounts to over €5 million. The pre-registration is mandatory and has to be concluded by the 15th of April 2014.
The Call covers 4 topics across the 3 COFASP sectors (Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Processing):
Topic 1: The ecosystem approach to fisheries management
Topic 2: Spatial planning in fisheries and aquaculture
Topic 3: Improved aquaculture. This topic contains 3 distinct objectives: i) New and improved aquaculture systems; ii) Feed and nutrition in aquaculture; and iii) Application of the improved capacity in genomics in aquaculture
Topic 4: Production chain
COFASP (Cooperation in Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Processing) is an ERA - NET created to directly address actions envisaged within fisheries, aquaculture and seafood. It was created as under the KBBE theme in FP7, and is part of the Europe 2020 strategy. COFASP is based on the earlier ERA - NET MariFish and the running ERA - NET SEAS - ERA, and will run for 48 months from its initiation on 1 February 2013, ending in February 2017. COFASP has 26 partners from 15 countries in Europe. COFASP intends to launch 3 calls during its runtime. This is the first call to be launched by COFASP.
Eligibility criteria and all the call documents are available on the COFASP website: http://www.cofasp.eu/
