FISH MED NET invites Proposals for Sub-Grants in Lebanon

Within the FISHMEDNET project, funded by the European Union and implemented by the Lebanese partner, the Ministry of Agriculture, they invite you to apply for a grant to carry out business development projects in the fishery sector.

Mediterranean coastal communities are jointly facing the common challenges of unemployment. Fishery sector experienced a reduction of revenues, employment and catches, and a lower attractiveness for youth. Nevertheless, this sector still is at the core of coastal countries economy and have demonstrated to have very high potentiality of creating relevant added value by diversifying and integrating with other sectors, such as developing innovation in fishing tourism, environmental marine services, cultural services on fishery heritage and food-chain innovation.

In fact, several pilot initiatives for the fishery diversification, tested in the last years, have proven to be successful in terms of increase of income (inclusive growth), job creation and fishery sustainability.

Those initiatives have raised the attention of policy makers, development organizations and BDOs. Several Countries have started taking actions for creating an enabling environment in terms of legislations and policies. Despite that, those pilot initiatives remain at a very local level, managed by Micro-enterprises which are not connected among them. This fragmentation has hampered the investment capacity (on R&D or marketing) and the visibility of those new products and services. In this framework FISH MED NET aims to create Business Alliances between the Mediterranean MSMEs active in fishery diversification. The MSMEs will be stimulated to gather into cross-border Business Alliances based on common Business Models, by providing them training, direct professional assistance for the development of new services/products, and tools for improving their marketing (e-platform). Moreover, the project boosts Public Private Partnership (PPPs) in the sector by increasing the capacity of Public Authorities’ practitioners.

Funding Information

• The amount available under this call for sub-grant proposals will be determined by a committee to be formed by the Ministry of Agriculture.

• Any grant requested under this call for proposals must fall between the following minimum and maximum amounts:

  • minimum amount: EUR 10.000

  • maximum amount: EUR 30.000

General Terms

• The applicant must be as follows: an association, a cooperative, a syndicate, a company or a sole proprietorship and an academic institution.

• The applicant of the project must be working in a field related to water fishing on Lebanese territory and aquatic life and/or related research studies.

• The submitted project should fall within the framework of boosting partnership between the private and public sectors. (The projects that will be accepted must be within the fields of marine fishing, fish farming, marine tourism, and marine life conservation, etc.)

• The project should benefit the fishing sector in general and the life conditions of fishermen in particular.

• The submitted projects will be studied and the winning projects will be selected based on the extent to which the projects are compatible with the objectives of the FISHMEDNET project.