“Aquatic Resources Management Regional Clustering

“Aquatic Resources Management Regional Clustering to enhance Sustainable Development in
Mediterranean- AQRM-Med”, Project
Aquatic resources (AquaRes) represent the backbone of the region´s economy and food security. As referred in EU sustainable Development agenda “Poverty and social exclusion have become crucial issues in both EUMCs and MPCs”. AQRM-MED has been established to promote a cross-border, multi-disciplinary partnership that will Create an overarching clustering model for the region based on AquaRes management and sustainability. For that objectives have been identified; (1) Enhancing sustainable AquaRes-based innovation through the establishment of a Multi-Stakeholder Platform-MSP comprising all actors involved in the development process and through technological innovation and information access. Through MSP, the coordination and stimulation of knowledge flows and exchange will deliver positive effects to all Med countries; (2) Boost the private sector as a key driver for development and create an innovation index and toolbox to support the private sector and academia industry-oriented research; (3) Identifying pilot cases diagnosis the innovative solutions and instruments to address in order to guarantee the effective cooperation in the region squares, to foster competitiveness, economic growth and job creation. These will lead to Improving market information and cross-border communication (4) Integrating AquaRes management within the policy and economic development agenda of the region; (5) Building capacities, and disseminating information needed by the private sector to drive innovation in the sector, enabling regional scale-up and replication of best practices and tools, (6) Developing future action plans and investment scenarios; (7) Empowering gender, youth, and NEETs, as cross-cutting issues.

Addressing these objectives implies sustainable AquaRes cross-industry activities and methodologies from business strategy consultancy services, pilot activities in determining areas, promotion of public-private collaboration models and participation of any relevant AquaRes stakeholders and social actors.

A set of activities will be implemented as; SWOT analysis to explore the most important challenges and gaps related to AquaRes; developing an innovation technological toolbox; GIS prototypes for supporting MSP, Dashboard, innovation portal for data, geoportal for geospatial data including Essential Variables and Indicators.