LIVE: Blue Growth Piraeus DEMO DAY

The 9 finalists of Blue Growth Piraeus 2020 Competition will present their innovative ideas in the DEMO DAY of September 18th in front of the judging committee, the mayor of Piraeus, the co-organizers from University of Piraeus, and representatives from the State, the scientific community and the local marinescape. The event will be streamed online via the Blue Growth Piraeus facebook page. Save the date!

The 9 finalists of Blue Growth Piraeus 2020 Competition will participate in a preparation workshop, organized by Blue Lab. Experts from different fields of entrepreneurship will guide the 9 contestants on "How to present and win the investors".

A successful DEMO DAY in Mataró

The "Premis BluAct Awards" took place on 22 June 2020 in TecnoCampus Mataró-Maresme, a beautiful night organized by Mataró Municipality where the best innovative ideas on Blue Entrepreneurship for the region where awarded! A video covering the event, with english subtitles, will be available pretty soon by our partners!

Our Lead Expert, Jim Sims, and our Project Manager, Alexandra Tsatsou, sent a small message for the Mataro Premis BluAct Awards

The Blue Growth Piraeus 9 finalists

Brief presentation of the 9 finalists of the Blue Growth Piraeus Competition 2020. The 9 innovative ideas are contesting for the 1st place in the DEMO DAY of September 18th. The event will be streamed! Stay tuned and vote for the winners online!

Matosinhos contest winners & finalists

Small interviews of the contestants from the Matosinhos successful DEMO DAY

Ostend: An intuitive model for start-up coaching

An article by Andries Vienne, policy manager at the City of Ostend.

Hackathons!!!

The URBACT BluAct partners from Burgas, organized a Hackathon in order to engage the new generation into a process of Starting Up the Blue Economy in their area.

The Municipality of Galati organized two HACKATONS, on 14th of September and 12th of December 2019 within the competition Danube Growth Initiative (DGI). Off to a good start, the two events gathered 48 participants and 12 projects in the Blue Economy field.

Due to the pandemic restrictions in Romania, the next events (Preparation week and Demo Day) were postponed for the near future.

Webinar is the new TNM...

5 online webinars will take place, instead of the cancelled Transnational Meeting that would have take place in June in Burgas. The photo below is from the 3rd webinar with subject: "Incubation, Mentoring & Coaching". Stay tuned for the next webinars that are coming soon and book a "seat" (by sending us a message) if you wish to participate!

"Blue Growth" in an MSc programme

The co-organizers of the Blue Growth Piraeus Competition, MSc Sustainability and Quality in Marine Industry, from the University of Piraeus is taking the Blue Growth to a new level with this online, 12-month intensive course in English.

Please share to all of the Blue Economy enthusiasts!

Interviews from our ULG communities

Videos from Salerno and Matosinhos ULG key-partners experiences from the BluAct process. Federica Navas, from the Promotion Office of the Salerno Port System Authority talks about her TNM experience in January 2020, and Carla Domingues, from Forum Oceano, one of the key members of the Matosinhos (Portugal) URBACT Local Group

BluAct is a network of 7 European port cities including Piraeus (Greece), Matosinhos (Portugal), Burgas (Bulgaria), Mataro (Spain), Ostend (Belgium), Galati (Romania), and Salerno (Italy) aiming to share good practices in Blue Economy entrepreneurship. The project is funded under the EU’s URBACT III programme, which helps cities to develop sustainable, pragmatic solutions, integrating economic, social and environmental urban topics.

You can learn more in BluAct’s websites: bluact.eu and urbact.eu/bluact or follow our facebook or twitter accounts.