This call seeks to improve instruments, data, and knowledge on the cumulative environmental impacts of large-scale offshore wind energy generation, ensuring its sustainable deployment. Projects should provide better understanding of cumulative environmental impacts when combined with other human activities, expand studies from local to larger areas, and measure multiple pressures and impacts on marine and coastal ecosystems. Proposals should test and demonstrate monitoring and modelling technologies, improve instruments and models for Maritime Spatial Planning, and identify strategies to avoid, minimise, mitigate, and compensate environmental impacts, potentially providing net-positive environmental outcomes.

Particular attention must be dedicated to ensuring that the data produced is FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Re-usable) and to leveraging existing community practices for data sharing. Synergies with other ongoing and upcoming Horizon Europe projects must be ensured, as well as with the European Digital Twin of Ocean and its core infrastructure. Funded projects must include analysis of possible new impacts that may become relevant with high deployment, such as impacts related to decommissioning, dynamic cables, and microplastics production.

Opening Date: 16 September 2025
Deadline: 17 February 2026

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This funding opportunity represents a pre-agreed draft that has not yet been officially approved by the European Commission. The final, approved version is expected to be published in the first quarter of 2025. This draft is provided for informational purposes and may be used to preliminarily form consortia and develop project ideas, but it is offered without any guarantees or warranties.