The Olympic Committees of Europe Approaching Carbon Neutrality (OCEAN) project is designed to empower National Olympic Committees (NOCs) to acquire relevant knowledge to measure their carbon footprint and develop tailored carbon reduction strategies to reduce their carbon emissions and strengthen good governance in the field of climate action. Coordinated by the EOC EU Office, the project brings together 21 organisations, including 18 European NOCs and the Oeko Institut (scientific institute with climate action expertise), as well as the International Olympic Committee and the Association of National Olympic Committee as associated partners. The scope of the OCEAN project is to upskill partner NOCs’ workforce in the field of climate action through a “Climate Action Officer” training course and provide them with the right tools and expertise so that they can lead the process of carbon reduction strategies’ development in their respective NOCs. Thus, each partner NOC is expected to develop a fact-based carbon reduction strategy to lead their actions well beyond the end of the project, and, ultimately, to reach the ambitious objectives of the Olympic movement in this area. During the project, a carbon emissions measurement tool, tailored to the needs of NOCs and other like organisations, will be developed, piloted and refined. While partner NOCs will use it to measure the carbon footprint of their organisations, the tool will be later made available in an online form to a wider sport movement. Pool of Actions – a register of possible carbon reduction measures and activities – will be developed as another tool to support not only the project partners but also other sport organisations wanting to embark on, and or advance, on their carbon emissions reduction journey. Also, a comparative analysis of the partner NOC’s carbon footprint will be created to support fact-based policymaking and a science-based approach to climate action sport.

STRADE addresses the long-term security and sustainability of the European raw material supply from European and non-European countries. It will develop dialogue-based, innovative policy recommendations for a European strategy on future raw-material supplies. STRADE will initially concentrate on the industry perspective. Based on an analysis of the European mineral raw-material mining sector’s competitiveness, the objective is to provide a strategy on how the EU can work to promote mining investment into and within the EU. Areas in which there is a need to revisit and improve present policies and conditions to advance European competitiveness for inward investments will be identified. STRADE also addresses equipment and service suppliers, exploration companies and investors. EU-level dialogues should be initiated with mineral-producing countries to support European businesses in these sectors within non-EU countries. These activities will also serve as a gateway to future cooperation between the EU and other raw-material-producing countries and will often address environmental challenges in the mining sector. Subsequently, STRADE will focus on government level and the EU’s relation to mineral-producing countries. Based to the mapping of present EU and member-state engagements as well as those engagements of non-EU countries, it will provide analyses on how the EU can renew its engagement with mineral-producing countries aiming at a larger EU strategy to ensure fair and unrestricted access to mineral raw materials worldwide. A specific objective towards the goals of environmental and social sustainability is the development of new concepts for Europe’s role in international action towards sustainable mining and processing. Stakeholder workshops on possible contributions of EU /member states to an international resource governance alliance and internationally accepted sustainability evaluation and certification schemes will be conducted.