- Expert(s)
- Diana Lorena Rico-Velez, Mounir Ghribi
- Website
- City
- Piran
- Country
- Slovenia
- Type of member
- Other
- Type of member - other
- Centre of Excellence
- Sea basin regions
- Mediterranean Sea
- Topics
- Other
- Topics - other
- Blue economy including all economic sectors related to the sea and ocean literacy
- Environmental domains
- Marine/Ocean
- Main activities
- Other
- Main activities - other
- Sustainable blue economy science-policy-education
The project sets up a Centre of Excellence in Blue Economy at the Euro-Mediterranean University (EMUNI). The project is in line with the outlined EMUNI’s mission and its strategic priority (since 2017) of capacity-building and research on the blue economy. The Centre of Excellence brings together a group of key experts from various institutions across the Euro-Mediterranean region to set off a scholarly study and promotion of the EU’s policies in the area of blue economy as they play out in the Mediterranean.The project is significant, novel and cutting-edge in that: It is very timely, It relies on a strong team that is markedly interdisciplinary, It is truly trans-institutional and trans-national, It aims at generating a region-wide impact. The project’s ambition is to contribute, at a tangible level, to a shift from an acknowledgement of the significance of the sustainable blue economy towards its realisation, through the following ways: Research, Education, Stakeholder dialogue.