Saving our Seas – Reducing danger of munitions dumped in European seas

Call updates

16 December 2025
“Clearance Activities for Marine Munition through Efficient Remediation Approaches” - CAMMera

The CAMMera project was selected under the call for proposals PPPA-2024-MUNITIONS and started on 1 July 2025 for a duration of 36 months.

The project focuses on advancing technology for the safe disposal of marine munitions in European seas, specifically addressing Phase IV (clearance and disposal) of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal process. The project has four technological goals: improving munition handling, enabling secure remote operations, developing industrial-scale disposal methods, and ensuring environmentally safe clearance. Additionally, CAMMera aims to coordinate with existing national and EU efforts, promote knowledge exchange, and explore funding and business models for large-scale remediation across Europe.

The project was awarded a maximum EU grant amount of EUR 5 578 250.77.

The lead partner in the CAMMera project consortium is Helmholtz-Zentrum Für Ozeanforschung Kiel (Germany). The other partners are:

Altamira Softworks (Slovakia)
Coalas Systems LLC (Ukraine)
Dynsafe Demil Systems (Sweden)
FUGRO Innovation & Technology (Netherlands)
Joint Programming Initiative on Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans (Belgium)
Asociatia New Strategy Center (Romania)
SEATERRA GMBH (Germany)
More information on the project and its activities is available at: https://cammera-munition.eu/

24 January 2025

In accordance with the call conditions the evaluation of the proposals was made looking at the criteria ‘Relevance’, ‘Quality’ and ‘Impact’. The threshold for each criterion was 6 points. The overall threshold (applying to the sum of the three individual scores) was set at 21 points.

The results of the evaluation are as follows:

Number of proposals submitted (including proposals transferred from or to other calls): 5

Number of inadmissible proposals: 0

Number of ineligible proposals: 0

Number of above-threshold proposals: 4

Total budget requested for above-threshold proposals: EUR 21 785 796.09

Number of proposals retained for funding: 1

Number of proposals in the reserve list: 1

Ranking distribution

Number of proposals with scores lower or equal to 30 and higher or equal to 27: 0

Number of proposals with scores lower than 27 and higher or equal to 24: 3

Number of proposals with scores lower than 24 and higher or equal to 21: 1

26 November 2024

Call PPPA-2024-MUNITIONS has closed on the 21st November 2024.

Five proposals have been submitted.

Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in Q1 2025.

Jul 9, 2024 1:33:50 PM

The recording is now available of the online Info Day on the call for proposals which took place on 5 July 2024. You can find the link to the recording here.

https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/news-events/events/pppa-2024-info-day-reducing-danger-munitions-dumped-european-seas-2024-07-05_en

Jun 25, 2024 10:36:08 AM

An online Info Day on the call for proposals will take place on 5 July 2024. The Info Day will include a presentation of the policy background to this call for proposals, information on the call, how to apply and tips and tricks for preparing your application.

Please register here - https://cinea.ec.europa.eu/news-events/events/pppa-2024-info-day-reducing-danger-munitions-dumped-european-seas-2024-07-05_en

You can table questions ahead of the event, as well as during the live session, via Slido using the hashtag #PPPAMUNITIONS

Saving our Seas – Reducing danger of munitions dumped in European seas

TOPIC ID: PPPA-2024-MUNITIONS

Type of grant: Call for proposals

General information

Programme: Pilot Projects & Preparation Actions (PPPA)

Call: Saving our Seas – Reducing danger of munitions dumped in European seas (PPPA-2024-MUNITIONS)

Type of action: PPPA Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions

Type of MGA: Pilot Projects and Preparatory Actions [PPPA]

Status: Open for submission

Deadline model: single-stage

Opening Date: 25 June 2024

Deadline dates: 21 November 2024 17:00 (Brussels time)

Topic description

Objective:

This call for proposals aims to:

1. Develop the most environmentally friendly, comprehensive and efficient technologies and methods for the removal, disposal and/or neutralisation of munitions dumped at sea including by developing new technologies and methods and/or improving existing ones, such as those developed under other EU-funded projects.
2. Test the new and/or improved technologies and methods in real (non-wartime) conditions, with a focus on the areas of the Baltic Sea that have been identified as priority areas for action, taking into account the results of prioritisation exercises carried out by other projects and initiatives.
3. Support increased and timely access by stakeholders to the most appropriate technologies, methods, and personnel for clean-up of submerged munitions in sea basins around the EU.
4. Support the transfer of technologies and methods to other sea basins around the EU, including the Black Sea and Azov Sea.

Scope:

This call for proposals aims to optimise technologies and methods to tackle submerged munitions in the Baltic Sea and other European sea basins by building on and complementing existing successful projects, and cooperating with ongoing initiatives.

It focuses on improving existing technologies and methodologies used to remove/neutralise/dispose of submerged munitions. Improvements should relate to their efficiency, effectiveness, safety and environmental impact.

It further covers improvements to the availability and accessibility of technologies, methods, support and personnel for carrying out actions on submerged munitions.

In addition, it prioritises concrete action to test and demonstrate technologies and methods in identified munitions hotspots in the Baltic Sea.

A further priority is the transfer of the solutions developed to other European sea basins, and particularly to address the consequences of Russian aggression in the Black Sea and Azov Sea.

Conditions

1.Admissibility conditions: described in section 5 of the call document

Proposal page limits and layout:described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System

2. Eligible countries:described in section 6 of of the call document

3. Other eligibility conditions:described in section 6 of the call document

4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion:described insection 7 of the call document

5.Evaluation and award:

• Award criteria, scoring and thresholds:described in section 9 of the call document

• Submission and evaluation processes:describedsection 8 of the call document and theOnline Manual

• Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement:described in section 4 of the call document

6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants:describedin section 10 of the call document

Start submission

To access the Electronic Submission Service, please click on the submission-button next to the type of action and the type of model grant agreement that corresponds to your proposal. You will then be asked to confirm your choice, as it cannot be changed in the submission system. Upon confirmation, you will be linked to the correct entry point.

To access existing draft proposals for this topic, please login to the Funding & Tenders Portal and select the My Proposals page of the My Area section.

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