BLUE BIO MED - Mediterranean Innovation Alliance for sustainable blue economy

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Joint our Alliance and sign the Charter!

 The Mediterranean Innovation Alliance for Sustainable Blue Bioeconomy (MedIA-SBB) is a coalition of organisations and a community of people inspired by the transformative wave raised by the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. It is intended as a tool to improve opportunities for networking, exchanges of experiences, cooperation, advocacy and increasing visibility.

The Charter is non-binding. By signing it, signatories declare their willingness to cooperate with each other, to align objectives and approaches, to mobilise resources and develop activities contributing to enhancing and implementing the MedIA-SBB.

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POLICY EXPERIMENTS

What are policy experiments?

Policy experiments consist of multi-actor workshops where quadruple helix stakeholders work together in identifying potential activities to tackle sustainable development challenges. Because these stakeholders operate in different MED regions and countries, the workshops intend to promote collaboration across levels of government, and transnationally.

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MAPPING BLUE BIOECONOMY PRIORITIES IN THE SPECIALIZATION STRATEGIES

The analysis and mapping performed in Blue Bio Med - and reported in full in Deliverable 3.2.2 - aimed to highlight connections and disconnections between international/intergovernmental initiatives in the Mediterranean area and territorial innovation policies (RIS3 and others) of the Blue Bio Med (BBM) regions and countries.

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What is Blue Bioeconomy?

Blue Economy can be considered the Green economy applied to the sea (as in the Agenda 2030). The term includes any economic activity related to the use use of renewable marine biological resources to make other products.products. The resulting products include human and animal food, novel foods and additives, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, cosmetics, materials, and energy.

Blue bioeconomy is a field of innovation and sustainability that turns aquatic biomass into valuable and sustainable products.

The governance of innovation policies in the Blue bioeconomy is characterized by a complex interplay of policies promoting innovation at different territorial scales (regional, national, international), where quadruple helix stakeholders should interact to develop and implement innovation policies.

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https://ec.europa.eu/knowledge4policy/publication/blue-bioeconomy-situation-report-perspectives_en

The project at a glance

Duration

22

Months

Budget

1.5

M €

Consortium

 members

9 countries

News

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