We would like to congratulate Prof. Anna Petrig on winning the COST Action BlueRights. COST is a highly competitive EU funding program - the success rate for this year's call for proposals was just 11.5%. COST promotes the networking of academic research activities in Europe.The BlueRights project concerns the emerging legal field of human rights at sea. It investigates how the most fundamental universal human rights - the right to life, liberty and health - can also be granted to people at sea and what states and other actors must do to achieve this goal.The project will run for 4 years and will bring together academics and practitioners working at the interface of the law of the sea and human rights. At the time of application, the network comprised 73 people from 38 different countries working for universities, international organizations, public authorities and NGOs.