Blue Economy Business and Science Forum 1st Summit – Hamburg
date: 12/09/2016 - 13/09/2016
The Hamburg Summit gathered together over 200 Blue Economy stakeholders to discuss and propose solutions on:
- how to boost the European competitiveness in marine and maritime technologies;
- how to increase cooperation between science and industrial sectors; and
- how to fully demonstrate the value of innovative technologies, scale them up and bring them to the market.
Participants also discussed bottlenecks hindering the commercialisation of innovative blue technologies in the EU. Innovation is costly and even more so in the marine environment. Therefore, access to finance for innovation was considered as one of the key issues. The event explored the new Commission proposal on the European Innovation Council as an opportunity for Blue Economy entrepreneurs-innovators.
The Summit delivered concrete recommendations on:
- How to benefit from already existing research, innovation and technology achievements to speed-up commercialisation of marine technologies.
- How to bring science and business communities closer.
- How to encourage cross-sectorial collaboration.
- What regulatory and financial measures the European Commission should take to boost investments in the Blue Economy.
From the conference
- Agenda
- Brochure
- Opening speech by João Aguiar Machado, Director-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, European Commission
- Presentation from wake-up session, Pierre Erwes
- Final report
- Photos from the conference
Project presentations
- ARRAINA (Sadasivam Kaushik, INRA)
- Blue growth (Petros Kokkalis, Municipality of Piraeus)
- CERES (Prof. Myron A. Peck, University of Hamburg IHF- CEN)
- COLOMBUS (Georgia Bayliss-Brown, AquaTT)
- EnviGuard (Björn Suckow, ttz Bremerhaven)
- KILLSPILL (Prof. Nicolas Kalogerakis, School of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete)
- MARIBE (Dr Gordon Dalton, Project coordinator MaREI, UCC, Ireland)
- NoMorFilm (Margherita Sosio KtedoGen Srl, Milan, IT)
- PharmaSea (Boris Mannhardt, BIOCOM AG)
- Sea-on-a-CHIP (Marinella Farré, IDAEA-CSIC)
- TASCMAR (Jamal OUAZZANI, TASCMAR Coordinator)
See also
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