The SUBMARINER Network is the cooperation platform for actors and initiatives across the Baltic Sea Region and beyond, who promote innovative approaches to the sustainable use of marine resources. With currently nine full members from all Baltic Sea Region countries, 50+ associate members and 250+ institutional project partners it is bottom- up initiative, which is built on a multi-actor and sector approach including authorities, research, authorities, creative arts, economics as well as civil society. The SUBMARINER Network is registered as a not-for-profit European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) and is managed by a professional secretariat.
Taking offset in the 1st SUBMARINER Roadmap (published 2013), it encompasses transnational and cross-border regional development, innovation and research projects, as well as the various initiatives at local and business level. Via meetings, workshops, conferences and a comprehensive set of dissemination tools, network members are provided with a continuous platform for communication, exchanges of experience, joint project development and implementation. Being closely aligned with the Policy Areas “Innovation” and ‘Bioeconomy’ SUBMARINER Network represents the Blue Bioeconomy within the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR). In this capacity it also regularly issues joint position papers and contributes to the further development of the EUSBSR. While its roots lie in the Baltic Sea Region, the SUBMARINER Network also reaches out beyond its geographical base to engage in partnerships with actors that share its thematic vision across Europe. As such, it functions as the bridge between the Baltic Sea Region and the rest of the EU.
In 2021 the SUBMARINER Network presented its new ‘SUBMARINER Roadmap 2021+’, which was developed on the basis of a comprehensive assessment of achievements in the blue bioeconomy; external developments and an extensive series of thematic as well as country specific stakeholder workshops. The Roadmap identifies the following four set of actions, which are necessary to further drive the sustainable blue economy in the region:
Action 1: Get Pilots to the Next Level
Action 2: Involve companies of all sizes
Action 3: Strengthen ‘the Blue on Land’
Action 4: Interlink Baltic with EU wide Communities of Practice
The Roadmap has been agreed by all SUBMARINER members as their commitment to pursue these actions. Ever since its publication in Dec 2022 the SUBMARINER Network has already successfully generated projects with a total value of more than EUR 100 million to enables the realization of these actions.
- Name of organisation
- SUBMARINER Network for Blue Growth EEIG
- Type of organisation
- Other
- Other type of organisation
- Non-for-Profit transnational network
- Type of action proposed
- Upscaling, deployment and replication of solutions
- The action contributes to the following objective or enabler
- Protect and restore marine and freshwater ecosystems and biodiversityPrevent and eliminate pollution of our ocean, seas and watersMake the sustainable blue economy carbon-neutral and circularOcean and waters knowledge systemPublic mobilisation and engagement
- List of Partners
1. s.Pro sustainable-projects GmbH, DE
2. BioCon Valley, DE
3. Gdynia Maritime University (GMU), PL
4. Coastal Research and Planning Institute (CORPI), LT
5. Klaipeda University, LT
6. University of Tartu, EE
7. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE
8. University of Southern Denmark (SDU), DK
9. Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), FI
10. Kiel University Marine Science Centre, DE
11. Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology, LV
12. GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre, DE
13. Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE), FI
14. University of Gdansk, PL
15. Klaipeda Science and Technology Park, LT
16. Guldborgsund Kommune, DK
17. University of Gothenburg, SE
18. National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, PL
19. Blue Centrum Gotland, SE
20. Swedish Environment Institute (IVL), SE
21. Ida-Viru Investment Agency (IVIA), EE
22. Region Skane, SE
23. Riga Planning Region, LV
24. oceanBASIS GmbH, DE
25. FuE Zentrum FH Kiel, DE
26. Kalmar Sound Commission, SE
27. Metal Production, LT
28. INNOVATUM, SE
29. S&E Sea & Environment, PL
30. Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal Biology (FBN), DE
31. Ocean Industry Forum Oslofjord (OIFO), NO
32. Blue Research APS, DK
33. Vetik, EE
34. Ecopelag, SE
35. Origin by Ocean, FI
36. PurOceans Technology, LV
37. SUSTAINABILITY NOW, DK
38. INOVA+, DE
39. University in Laapenranta (LUT), FI
- Start date of the action
- End date of the action
- Budget allocated for the action
- 100000000
- Basin coverage
- Baltic/North Sea
- Website link
- asz@submariner-network.eu
- Country
- DenmarkEstoniaGermanyLatviaLithuaniaPolandSweden