EnerOcean

The EU has set bold quantified and measurable targets to achieve its Ocean Mission objectives relating to: protecting and restoring marine ecosystems and biodiversity; preventing and eliminating pollution of our ocean; and making the sustainable blue economy carbon-neutral and circular by 2030.

The EU Mission Implementation Plan has two demanding, but necessarily near-term phases: the first ‘development and piloting’ phase 1 by 2025, and the second ‘deployment and upscaling’ phase 2 from 2026-2030. Following consultations with Lighthouse Coordination and Support (CSA) project PREP4BLUE, as well as current Blue Park and Lighthouse projects, it was determined that to substantially, effectively and realistically contribute to the 2030 targets with this project’s expected start date in 2024, PHAROS must be an action orientated project, following the earlier foundation and preparation type projects in Mission calls in 2021 and 2022.

PHAROS will include a combination of new innovative Nature Based Solutions (NBS) in 4 demonstrations (demo(s)) in the Atlantic and Arctic (AA basin) for subsequent replication (Phase 1 contribution), plus enhancing (TRL advancement) and rolling out leading past H2020 projects and current Mission projects across the AA basin (bridge to phase 2). Therefore, PHAROS will be the logical stepping stone bridging Phase 1 ‘development and piloting’ and the second ‘deployment and upscaling’ phase from 2026-2030.