The beautiful city of Zadar hosted on 23rd and 24th April 2018 the official Kick Off Meeting of the BLUE_BOOST European project. Seven project partners from Croatia, Italy, Greece and Albania gathered together to launch this 22-month project co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through the Interreg ADRION Programme.
The project aims at boosting the innovation potential of the blue economy SMEs and start-ups belonging to the involved Adriatic-Ionian regions, through innovative and creative cooperation with the so-called ‘new innovation agents’. The project indeed offers innovative coaching opportunities for the blue sectors’ companies on how to innovate and achieve blue growth. Selected companies shall be also awarded with innovation vouchers of up to EUR 10.000 for their implementation of a desired innovation process within their company, together with an innovation coach guiding them through this process.
The project therefore also represents an opportunity for the blue growth innovation experts and the non-institutional ‘new innovation agents’ to promote and offer their expertise and innovation coaching services in a transnational context. These Knowledge Providers will be indeed selected by the awarded companies to guide their innovation process and will thus be the actual financial beneficiaries of the project’s innovation vouchers.
In the next weeks a Call for the expression of interest for interested companies and Knowledge Providers respectively shall be launched on the project’s website.
