Details
- Status
- Ongoing
- Reference
- CINEA/2023/OP/0021
- Publication date
- Deadline date
- Opening of tenders
- Department
- European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency
Description
The overarching aim of the call for tender is to contribute to increasing sustainable production of algae, ensuring safe consumption and boosting innovative use of algae and algae-based products in Europe.
The objective is to provide technical assistance to the European Commission in implementing the Communication ‘Towards a strong and sustainable EU algae sector' and a sustainable and regenerative EU algae industry by:
1) Maintaining, and further developing the existing European Algae Stakeholders platform (EU4Algae) as the information and networking hub and one-stop-shop for EU (micro and macro) algae stakeholders;
2) Setting-up a new European Algae farmers toolkit: such toolkit will provide guidance to help new and future European seaweed farmers in setting-up a regenerative ocean farm;
3) Organising the 2nd EU Algae Awareness Summit and contributing to the overall communication about the benefits of algae and the EU support to the algae community.
The estimated budget is EUR 3.55 million and the maximum contract duration is 48 months.
The deadline for requesting additional information is 27 May 2024.