The BLUE_BOOST project aims at boosting the innovation potential of both traditional and emerging Blue Growth sectors clusters in the Adriatic-Ionian region. Within the project, the partners’ networks from seven ADRION maritime territories will focus on transnational and cross-sectoral cooperation and innovation of maritime clusters through knowledge sharing and community based approach.
BLUE_BOOST will encompass Blue labs, workshops and hackathons and provide 350.000 € for at least 35 small-scale projects to be funded under the project’s Blue Innovation Voucher Scheme, in order to stimulate and guide innovation capacities of MSMEs/start-ups of the traditional Blue Growth sectors (fisheries and ship-building) and emerging ones (Blue technologies including aquaculture, green shipbuilding, robotics, new materials, etc.) in the Adriatic-Ionian region.
As a final objective, BLUE_BOOST will endorse a Transnational Innovation Networking Strategy and Joint Action Plan for the long-term capitalization of project’s findings for maritime clusters in the involved seven Adriatic-Ionian territories and beyond.
The project is funded under the Interreg ADRION Programme and its implementation period goes from 1 January 2018 until 31 October 2019. Its Kick Off and first Steering Committee meeting is scheduled in Zadar on 23-24 April 2018.