Calls for Concepts
Please find detailed information on the past three Calls for Concepts / Proposals of the MeerWissen Initiative here
1st Call for Concepts
In the 1st Call the MeerWissen initiative sought to support partnership projects within the following thematic research areas:
- Protection of biodiversity (protected areas, ecosystem services, conservation and monitoring of vulnerable and ecologically valuable habitats such as mangroves,)
- Balancing conservation and sustainable use (governance, social dimension of conservation, integrated coastal management, marine spatial planning, sustainable fisheries and aquaculture)
- Biodiversity and climate change
- Biodiversity and marine litter

2nd Call for Concepts
In the 2nd Call the MeerWissen initiative sought to support partnership projects within the following thematic focus: Strengthening biodiversity conservation in sustainable blue economy approaches in Africa and thereby contribute to:
- Understanding marine and coastal biodiversity and ecosystems and their functioning
- Documenting the current status of marine and coastal biodiversity and ecosystems
- Identifying areas of high biodiversity and ecosystem value and vulnerability
- Measuring, Assessing and Evaluating ecosystem services - Observing and understanding environmental change and the impacts of economic activities in different sectors on marine biodiversity, ecosystems and socio-ecologic systems
- Predicting the potential impacts of economic activities in different sectors on marine biodiversity, ecosystems and socio-ecologic systems
3rd Call for Proposals
The objective of this 3rd Call for proposals is to improve the knowledge base for marine- and coastal Nature-based Solutions (NbS) and to facilitate their use and uptake in national strategies and action plans.
MeerWissen seeks to support partnership projects that contribute to inter alia:
- Understanding marine and coastal biodiversity and ecosystems and their functioning in NbS
- Measuring, assessing and evaluating NbS and how (connected) coastal ecosystems can serve as a solution to local societal challenges
- Observing and understanding causalities between different coastal and marine ecosystems and their role as potential NbS
- Predicting the potential impacts of NbS in different sectors on local communities and socio-ecological systems
- Up-taking of scientific findings into political processes, such as national strategies, implementation plans, or adaptation strategies