BLUE BIO CLUSTERS |  BBC

PROJECT DURATION

3 years | August 2022 - August 2025 

FUNDING

Horizon Europe, H-CL6-2021-GOV-01-09
Revitalization of European local communities with innovative bio-based business models and social innovation

Budget

2.5 million €

BlueBioClusters brings together 13 support organizations from 9 European regions, all of them highly engaged in assisting start-ups, companies and policy makers to make best use of blue innovations. They have joined forces to improve, develop and implement new support tools and methods:

•  Showcase integrated and circular value chains within the Blue Bioeconomy, which can serve as role models & inspiration to European coastal communities

• Provide tools for supporting businesses/regions in calculating their individual contribution to ecosystem services and valorise them within novel ecologic-driven business models

• Provide regional blue bio companies access to the technologies they require

• Stimulate / accelerate the development of an innovative, inclusive blue bioeconomy in the participating regions

  • by providing individualized support to more than 100 companies

  • organising local co-creation workshops and

  • a series of transnational bootcamps targeting specific challenges

• Foster blue bioeconomy actions in regional development plans and their political / societal uptake through Communities of Practices

We expect to create long-lasting impact by engaging directly with hundreds of actors within our regions to stimulate collaboration and actions for change. Moreover the inter-active BlueBioCluster web-portal shall enhance the functionalities of the already existing SUBMARINER company catalogue with more comprehensive information on technologies and technology providers.