BlueBioClusters

The blue bioeconomy can unlock numerous opportunities for European coastal communities. Innovative business models based on circularity, local value chains, digital solutions and ecosystem services offer the chance to preserve and create new jobs, startups and economic activities – also for the lower-educated – while transforming remote, rural areas into interesting, revitalised, climate-friendly places to live.

BlueBioClusters brings together 12 support organisations from 9 European regions, highly engaged in assisting startups, companies and policymakers to create and foster blue innovations. BlueBioClusters will develop new support tools and methods to showcase integrated and circular blue bio value chains, which can serve as role models & inspiration to European coastal communities.
Specifically, BlueBioClusters will:
• Provide tools for supporting businesses/regions in calculating their
contribution to ecosystem services and valorise them within novel ecologic-
driven business models
• Provide regional blue bio companies access to the technologies they
require
• Stimulate/accelerate the development of an innovative, inclusive blue
bioeconomy in the participating regions by (1) providing individualised
support to more than 100 companies (2) organising local co-creation workshops
and (3) a series of transnational boot camps tackling specific challenges
• Foster blue bioeconomy actions in regional development plans and
their political/societal uptake through Communities of Practices

BlueBioClusters will create a long-lasting impact by engaging directly with
hundreds of actors within our regions to stimulate collaboration and actions
for change. For this reason, the project created www.bluebiomatch.eu, a novel
open platform designed as a convergence point for a diverse spectrum of
stakeholders, ranging from startups and SMEs to researchers, policymakers,
and funders. Its purpose is to facilitate the exchange of vital information,
products, and opportunities while fostering collaborative initiatives that
promote the sustainable development of blue bioresources. All interested
stakeholders can create a profile on the platform and start exchanging with
peers