MARINNONET
ProjeCt
Transnational R&D&I cooperation network to foster the competitiveness and sustainability of the Blue Biotech sector in the Atlantic Area territory.
Programme
Interreg Atlantic Area – a programme designed to promote transnational cooperation throughout the 36 Atlantic regions.
Partnership
This project is overseen by Universidade de Vigo (Spain) and comprises a consortium of 6 partners from all over Europe (France, Spain, Portugal, Ireland).
DurATION
36 months (2023-2026)
Budget
2.3M€
PROJECT SUMMARY
MARINNONET is a joint initiative of key actors of the quadruple helix of Canarias, Galicia, and País Vasco (ES), Bretagne (FR), Northern & Western and Southern (IE), Norte and Centro (PT), dedicated to Marine Biotechnology R&D&I. It aims at jointly exploiting their complementary competences and capacities to the common benefit of the blue innovation ecosystems of the Atlantic Area (AA), to ensure their competitiveness in the European and global Blue Economy, and the sustainable use of marine resources, contributing to the adaptation to climate change. The new transnational R&D&I cooperation network will enable to boost the innovation capacity of the AA Blue Biotech sector, by implementing the conditions for widely participative open innovation practices and market-driven R&D&I activities involving the innovators and innovation facilitators. Pilot actions and projects will showcase the diverse and impactful Blue Biotech innovation pathways that the new network is able to stimulate.
Considering the characteristics of the Blue Biotech sector of the 8 AA regions involved, and their respective R&D&I strengths, MARINNONET will focus on 3 Marine Biotechnology Platforms (BP), namely:
- BP1 - Innovations for an efficient, sustainable, and resilient aquaculture
- BP2 - Omic and observation technologies for preserving marine biodiversity and restore ocean health
- BP3 - Marine-derived products for industrial applications
ObjectiVEs
The MARINNONET project will create a transnational R&D&I cooperation network to establish the mechanisms considered critical to foster market-driven Marine Biotechnology R&D&I activities and the uptake of their outputs, properly exploiting the distributed Atlantic Area (AA) regional capacities. The aim is to boost the innovation capacity of the AA Blue Biotech sector, while preserving the natural ecosystem of this territory, in line with its Regional Strategies and Sea Basin Strategies (RSS) and contributing to its adaptation to climate change.
CLUSTER'S ROLE
The cluster is overseeing the part of the project linked to the Community Building and Open Innovation Pilot Actions and more specifically the Innovation Regional Stakeholders (IRS) Forums (3 Regional/ 3 National).
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