Cooperation with international partners, either public or private, is key to promoting the uptake of satellite navigation, position and timing, to enable non-EU countries to benefit from the advanced and unique features offered by EGNOS and Galileo, as well as allows promoting the uptake of Copernicus globally and build open data policy

– Focus on technical developments of EU-space based applications/solutions, dissemination, awareness-raising, as well as provide opportunities for the creation of business-oriented partnerships of European industry with international partners

– The use of EGNSS and sharing of expertise with public and/or private entities to

introduce EU-space based applications/solutions leveraging their innovative, unique

features, in particular Galileo differentiators and EU know-how

– The use of Copernicus data, to jointly develop algorithms, services and/or products,

which serve local user needs and/or enhance the Copernicus global product quality

– The combined use of EGNSS and Copernicus to develop innovative downstream

applications combining positing navigation and timing with Earth observation services

Projects outcomes will enable achieving the expected impacts of the destination by increasing access to primary raw materials, in particular critical raw materials for EU industrial value chains and strategic sectors

– Develop digital platforms that integrate Earth Observation data to improve data management and decision making during the extractive process
– Contribute to digitalize the extractive industries operations and help data gathering at EU level for evaluating the performance and competitiveness of extractive industries
– Provide practical and easily applicable capacity building and training materials for a better environmental and social management of active operations
– Envisage clustering activities with other relevant selected projects for cross-projects co-operation, consultations and joint activities on cross-cutting issues and share of results
– Contribute to improving the awareness of relevant external stakeholders and the general public across the EU about the importance and supply of raw materials

– Develop digital platforms (applications) addressing needs of small-scale operations, mining clusters and SMEs, to enable a transformative change in EU extractive industries ensuring EU raw materials autonomy, while protecting and restoring biodiversity, boost our resilience, fight climate change and recover from the COVID-19 crisis

– Develop business models and operation models

– Contribute to the digitalisation of the extractive industry

Intro

The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) aims to ensure that fisheries are environmentally, economically and socially sustainable and provide a source of healthy food for EU citizens. The CFP adopts a cautious approach, which recognises the impact of human activity on all components of the ecosystem. It seeks to make fishing fleets more selective in what they catch, to phase out the practice of discarding unwanted fish and to fight unreported and unregulated fishing. These illegal practices deplete fish stocks, destroy marine habitats, distort competition, put honest fishers at an unjust disadvantage and weaken coastal communities, particularly in developing countries. The EU is working to close the loopholes that allow illegal operators to profit from their activities. To be successful, the EU needs to have in place a technologically advanced and effective fisheries control system.

Scope

Review existing and develop new technological solutions to improve: (i) detection of illegal discards; (ii) checks on weighing, weighing systems and accurate catch registration; (iii) data management and reporting and
third-party reporting based on remote electronic monitoring systems on vessels; (iv) risk management applied to fisheries; (v) monitoring and control of small-scale, recreational and long-distance fleet, (vi) electronic marking of fishing gear, (vii) identifying unreported and unregulated fishing activities as well as fisheries products stemming from those activities, (viii) promoting data standards and protection, remote access to data and automatic data exchange protocols, and (ix) innovative tools to assess compliance with technical requirements and measures applicable to fishing vessels

Objective

– Advancing the digital transition for fisheries inspection and control and deliver data for fisheries science, management and monitoring
– Delivering innovative technological solutions to support biologically complex data analysis
– Devise new monitoring and control strategies to stop illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and promote sustainable fisheries in the EU and globally
– Create a new generation of jobs in the EU requiring digital and high-tech know-how applied to fisheries

Projects outcomes will enable achieving the expected impacts of the destination by increasing access to primary raw materials, in particular critical raw materials for EU industrial value chains and strategic sectors

– Develop and innovate new methods to analyse Earth Observation data, enabling systematic mineral exploration and continuous monitoring of extraction, closure and post closure activities

– Unlock the potential of Earth Observation technologies through the development of downstream products and services for the whole mining life cycle

– Strength EU autonomy in the area of raw materials, while enabling a successful transition to a climate-neutral, circular and digital EU economy

– Contribute to the implementation of the deployment of Earth-observation programmes and remote sensing for resource exploration, operations and post-closure environmental management

Intro

Europe’s ecosystems, on which we depend for instance for food, timber, clean air, clean water, climate regulation and recreation, suffer from unrelenting pressures caused by intensive use of land or sea, climate change, pollution, overexploitation of natural resources and invasive alien species. Ensuring that ecosystems achieve or maintain a healthy state or a good condition is a key requirement to secure the sustainability of human activities and human well-being.

Scope

– Improve the assessment of the condition of ecosystems while providing uptake of the assessment’s outcomes in policy
– Address regional diversity and the corresponding decision level
– Iinvestigate how ecosystem condition is related to the capacity of ecosystems to deliver ecosystem services
– Develop and test methods and tools to consistently report harmonised and verified ecosystem data that can be used to regularly report or assess the pressures and condition of ecosystems, dynamics, trends and changes over time
– Test and demonstrate the links between biodiversity, ecosystems and macro-economic policies and national policies for instance on agriculture, fisheries, forestry and climate

Objective

– The policy decisions affecting the environment
– Evidence and awareness of the importance of biodiversity, healthy ecosystems and the social and economic values that emerge from them
– Restoration targets and secure the sustainability of human activities and human well-being