Blue shuttle
ProjeCt
Atlantic area network for enhancing innovation in the blue economy sector.
Programme
Interreg Atlantic Area – a programme designed to promote transnational cooperation throughout the 36 Atlantic regions.
Partnership
This project is overseen by Fundación Bahía de Cádiz para el Desarrollo Económico (Spain) and comprises a consortium of 7 partners from all over Europe (France, Ireland, Portugal, Spain).
DURATION
36 months (2023-2026)
Budget
1.7M€
PROJECT SUMMARY
The focus of Blue Shuttle project will be on a broad innovation strategy to facilitate the adoption of digital solutions by the Blue Bioeconomy sector to stimulate more efficient and sustainable processes, as well as creative and viable solutions to foster competitiveness and resilience. Specifically, the target sectors will be Marine living resources and Blue biotechnology.
The project will be developed in 3 phases:
Discovery : identification of stakeholders, good practices, and creation of the innovation network
Analysis : diagnosis of the technological needs and skills of the blue sector to provide specific mentoring and capacity building actions. A digital platform will be created to enable the analysis and development phases.
- Development : enhance innovation through open innovation programmes and pilot projects
ObjectiVEs
Blue Shuttle aims at accelerating the digitalisation of the blue bioeconomy sector in the Atlantic Area, through the creation of a Blue Innovation Network based on a quadruple helix (QH) approach, in order to boost business growth of blue bioeconomy activities and improve the SMEs competitiveness, by:
- Improving the digital skills of professionals
- Enhancing innovation in the Blue Bioeconomy sector through experimentation and pilot projects
- Strengthening QH cooperation to boost innovation.
CLUSTER'S ROLE
The cluster is overseeing the creation of the transnational innovation network in the Atlantic Area. This includes stakeholder mapping, the identification of best practices in digitizing the blue bioeconomy sector, and the creation of local stakeholder groups. PMBA will also be responsible for implementing the French pilot project.
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