The European Comission published a call for grants on Maritime Spatial Planning with the object to support the Member States in setting up maritime spatial plans and ensuring plans are coherent and coordinated across the concerned marine regions.

It is important that the plans have to be adopted in line with the MSP Directive and the applicants have to follow the set priorities.

The eligible countries are the Mediterranean ones, proposals should focus on a part or sub-region of this sea basin (the Western Mediterranean Sea, the Ionian Sea and the Central Mediterranean Sea, the Aegean-Levantine Sea, the Adriatic Sea). For each area at least two coastal EU Member States shall be involved.

If you are interested, you can find the details, the Call for proposals and Guide for applicants here. The deadline for submitting proposals is 4th of September 2019.