NTNU Oceans is involved in a number of research, innovation and coordination actions, in Horizon 2020 and other international programmes:

• AQUAEXCEL2020 - Aquaculture infrastructures for excellence in European fish research. NTNU offers access to the CodTech lab and the Marine Cybernetics lab. Send in your application! See Call for proposals for Transnational Access (2015-2020)
• BlueEDU -  Aquaculture Sector Skills Alliance (2016-2018)
• BLUE MINING - Breakthrough Solutions for Mineral Extraction and Processing in Extreme Environment
• BLUE NODULES - Breakthrough Solutions for the Sustainable Harvesting and Processing of Deep Sea Polymetallic Nodules (2016-2020)
• Circular Ocean - Incentivising the elimination, collection and reprocessing of discarded fishing nets
• CO2MARINE - Impact of potential leakage from a sub-seabed CO2 storage site on the marine environment at relevant hydrostatic pressure
• COLUMBUS - Monitoring, Managing and Transferring Marine and Maritime Knowledge for Sustainable Blue Growth (2015-2018)
• GoJelly - a gelatinous solution to plastic pollution (2018 - 2021)
• GRACE - Integrated oil spill response actions and environmental effects (2016-2019)
• HYDRALAB+ - Adapting to climate change. An integrated research infrastructure project (2015-2019)
• Hydrogen in Maritime Transport - International Energy Agency - Hydrogen Implementing Agreement (2017-2020)
• MarineUAS - Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Systems for Marine and Coastal Monitoring (2015-2018)
• MicStaTech - Water treatment technology for microbial stabilization in landbased aquaculture systems  (2015-2018)
• OCEAN-CERTAIN - Ocean Food-web Patrol – Climate Effects: Reducing Targeted Uncertainties with an Interactive Network
• PLASTOX - Direct and indirect ecotoxicological impacts of microplastics on marine organisms
• SAFEFISHDISH - Improved microbial quality and safety of fish 
• SWARMs - Smart and Networking UnderWAter Robots in Cooperation Meshes (2015-2018)
• WAVES - Waves and Wave-Based Imaging in Virtual and Experimental Environments (2015-2018)