The BLUE ECOSYSTEM project engages industry, government, civil society, academia, and the environment—represented by conservation associations and NGOs—through a transformative and territorial co-creation approach to enhance innovation and research capacities.

Each participating region identifies the challenges of the blue economy in its territory (aligned with its RIS3), launches a call for transformative solutions to address them, and sets a regional accelerator laboratory (the so-called TRAIN labs) to support their adoption and scaling up.

By the end of the project, a transnational open innovation program (BLUE ECOMATCH) is organized to share experiences and lessons learned, which are compiled into a ‘blue book’ for capitalization.