Project Summary

The 7 regional maritime territories focused by BLUE_BOOST PJT (Zadar county; Marche, F.V.G. and Apulia regions; Western Greece and Central Macedonia regions; coastal areas of Durres, Vlora, Saranda and Shengjin in Albania) are branded by the presence of maritime (from mature/growing to emerging/just aspired) clusters with high heterogeneity of activities, tangible gap in communication and interaction among their 4 strands and poor attitude to interclustering, espec. at trans-sectoral level.
Thus, our proposal aims at unlocking and boosting the potential of knowledge/technology transfer, transnational and cross-sectoral cooperation of key innovation actors of traditional (primarily fisheries and ship-building) and emerging (primarily Blue technologies-including aquaculture- green shipbuilding, robotics and new materials) Blue Growth sectors by reinforcing the relationships and interactions within and among their clusters according to an open source,knowledge sharing&community based approach. The main change sought is to improve the basic conditions for bridging the gap between the 3 helixes of the focused maritime clusters between research/SMEs, users/SMEs, etc. thanks to the collaboration with the NEW INNOVATION AGENTS such as fablabs, co-working spaces, makerspaces, innovation hubs, living labs, techshops, etc. Due to such renewed flexibility, this enhanced 3 helixes approach can be naturally adopted in transnational actions for stimulation&guidance, funding (B_B TRANS. BLUE INNOVATION VOUCHER SCHEME) and networking of innovation (B_B TRANS. INNOVATION NETWORKING STRATEGY & JOINT ACTION PLAN) in order to explore possible sectoral cross-fertilizations, new ideas or expertise, new alliances and networking between individuals, communities, enterprises, organizations, institutions of the Blue Economy which deserves to be better supported, being it an economic driver and a potential generator of development and jobs.

INFORMATION

Call

ADRION - FIRST CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Project Acronym

BLUE_BOOST

Project Number

23

Programme Priority

1) Innovative and smart region

Specific objective

Support the development of a regional innovation system for the Adriatic-Ionian area

Start – End Date

2018-01-01 – 2020-12-31

Total budget

EUR 1,489,421.96

EU contribution:
ERDF budget

EUR 1,138,099.85

IPAII budget

EUR 127,908.81

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Project partnership

Lead partner       Project partner

LEAD PARTNER

CROATIAN CHAMBER OF ECONOMY
ZADAR COUNTY CHAMBER

Address
Rooseveltov trg, 2 | 10000 – Zagreb
HRVATSKA
Contact person
Ms. Maša Jurin, mjurin@hgk.hr

PROJECT PARTNERS

ALBANIAN DEVELOPMENT FUND
DEPARTMENT FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Address
RRUGA “SAMI FRASHERI”, 10 | 1000 – Tirana
ALBANIA
Contact person
Ms. Greta Gjoncaj, ggjoncaj@albaniandf.org

APULIA REGION
INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH AND INNOVATION SECTION -DEPARTMENT OF POLICIES FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, INNOVATION, EDUCATION, TRAINING AND JOBS

Address
C.so Sonnino, 177 | 70121 – Bari
ITALIA
Contact person
Ms. Adriana Agrimi, a.agrimi@regione.puglia.it

CENTRAL EUROPEAN INITIATIVE – EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT
N/A

Address
Via Genova, 9 | 34121 – Trieste
ITALIA
Contact person
Ms. Slavena Radovanovic, radovanovic@cei.int

PATRAS SCIENCE PARK S.A.
ADMINISTRATION

Address
STADIOU STR., | GR-265 04 – PATRAS
ΕΛΛΑΔΑ (ELLADA)
Contact person
Ms. Vicky Tomara, tomara@psp.org.gr

THESSALONIKI CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
STUDIES AND RESEARCH DEPARTMENT

Address
Tsimiski str., 29 | 54624 – THESSALONIKI
ΕΛΛΑΔΑ (ELLADA)
Contact person
Mr. Georgios Emmanouilidis, emmanouilidis@ebeth.gr

UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO
SCHOOL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - COMPUTER SCIENCE DIVISION

Address
P.ZZA CAVOUR, 19/F | 62032 – CAMERINO (MC)
ITALIA
Contact person
Ms. DILETTA ROMANA CACCIAGRANO, diletta.cacciagrano@unicam.it