Call for Proposals for OPERA African Regional Centers of Excellence - Information session

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We are excited to announce the opening of the Calls for Proposals in the framework of the African Regional Centres of Excellence (ArcX) programme’s ocean Component - OPERA – Ocean Prediction Enhancement in Regions in Africa. 

There are three calls for proposals with the objective to select public institutions in sub-Saharan Africa to establish and manage: 
  •  One consortium to develop and operate one regional Operational Ocean Forecasting Service and four coastal forecasting (OOFS consortium) 
  • Two consortia to develop and implement applications integrating forecasting data towards disaster risk reduction, sustainable blue economy and marine conservation.

1- Key details for the OOFS call for proposals: 
Launch of call: 6 March 2026
 Application deadline: 5 June 2026 12:00 am Paris Time 
 Grant: 800,000 EUROS 
Expected engagement: 40 months 

 Who can apply: This call is open to public/national institutions in a coastal Sub-Saharan African country 
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2- Key details for the applications call for proposals:
The call will be available by the 13th of March 2026.

Information SessionAgenda in a nutshell


The session will be about 90 minutes long with the following draft agenda:
  • Introduction & Quick overview of OPERA
  • Call for Grant - Ocean Forecasting Systems, followed by Q&A
  • Call for Grants - Applications, followed Q&A
  • Closing
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Speakers

OceanPrediction DCCMission & Vision

Oceanprediction DCC is a cross-cutting structure of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, with the goal of promoting collaboration towards "a predicted ocean", one of the transformative outcomes of the Decade. OceanPrediction DCC will serve to foster a clean, healthy, productive, predicted, safe, accessible and inspiring ocean.
unoceanprediction.org
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