Europeanisation of Plastic Pirates Citizen Science Initiative

This grant will be awarded without a call for proposals according to Article 195(f) of the Financial Regulation and Article 20 of the Horizon Europe Framework Programme and Rules for Participation. The general conditions, including admissibility conditions, eligibility conditions, award criteria, evaluation and award procedure, legal and financial set-up for grants, financial and operational capacity and exclusion, and procedure are provided in parts A to G of the General Annexes.

Expected Outcome: The results of the action are expected to contribute to all of the following expected outcomes:

• Tried and tested EU wide approaches to using citizen science to understand and monitor plastic pollution in European rivers, coasts and seas.
• Increased capacity to collect, organise and verify (imperfect)