Smart Specialisation and Blue Growth in the BSR

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Date of latest update: 2023-11-11

Description

Description (EN):

The project seeks to enhance blue growth opportunities based on increased capacity of the Baltic Sea Region to implement research and innovation strategies for smart specialisation (so called RIS3). This project is focusing on the blue value chain of Machinery & Technology, Life Science & Blue Medicine and Energy. Smart specialisation constitutes a significant challenge for many countries in the region. In the absence of prior experience and established knowhow, great variations in regional capacities to implement RIS3 have already appeared in the early stages of priority setting. Not only RIS3 is a new policy instrument, also Blue Growth is still a relatively new concept. Whereas traditional maritime activities like shipping and fishery have been targeted by European, national and regional policies for decades, there is still only a limited base of experience of proven policy measures when it comes to blue biotechnology / life science, maritime surveillance / technology or new propulsion technologies based on marine energy resources. Even on the European level there is no RIS3 specific guidance for blue topics. Blue growth is R&D intensive with a high potential for sustainable innovations that require targeted support measures. Led by the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Schleswig Holstein, which is considered by the EU to be a model maritime region in Europe, six Smart Blue Regions from the BSR are cooperating in the project. On one hand they aim in the transnational context to increase their operational capacity to implement RIS3: The “Multilevel Implementation Scheme” is a management plan for RIS3 implementation that shall be developed and piloted by Smart Blue Regions. And the “Blue Growth M&E System” helps them not only to monitor the RIS implementation but also to make blue growth more visible. These two documents will be developed during the project. On the other hand they aim to optimise their own set of blue growth specific RIS3 implementation measures by integrating good practice cases from other regions and / or sectors. As a main output from the transnational cooperation at the end of the project in 2018 the participating regions can draw on optimised blue RIS3 implementation plans. Here the project is focusing on the blue value chain of Machinery & Technology, Life Science & Blue Medicine and Energy. The project has ensured the involvement of various stakeholders from the research and business sectors as associated organisations. The project partners have an ambition to spur a number of follow-up projects and cooperation. As such the whole BSR might become a model maritime region in Europe.

Achievements (EN):

The partner regions – Southwest Finland, Pomorskie, Skåne, Ida-Viru, Schleswig-Holstein and Riga regions – reviewed and shared experiences on the implementation of their blue growth research and innovation smart specialisation strategies (Blue RIS3). Next, they developed solutions for the identified bottlenecks in their RIS3, e.g. lack of cooperation with companies and regional planners or a weaker role of regional cluster and unstable financing for them and other intermediaries. As a result, for example, Pomorskie updated their Regional Strategic Programme introducing an entrepreneurial discovery process to manage regional clusters – a good practice from Schleswig-Holstein. Southwest Finland created an internal plan for their Blue RIS3 implementation with a focus on responsibility, collaborative skills, accessibility and resource wisdom. The project developed a monitoring and review system for evaluating Blue RIS 3. Schleswig-Holstein (SH) tested this system by comparing needs and developments of blue growth sectors with the aims and priorities included in the RIS3 and its implementation programmes. This way, SH detected weaknesses as well as recommendations for an update in their Blue RIS3: e.g. to use RIS3 as a strategic tool for innovation policy and to focus more on cross-innovations, scenarios and visions. http://interreg-baltic.eu/project/smart-blue-region/

Website: http://www.interreg-baltic.eu/home.html

Delivered Outputs (EN): Multi-level Implementation Scheme Blue growth M&E system Improved Blue RIS3 implementation Plans Study and map identifying cooperation opportunities Transnational blue growth cooperation projects

Thematic information

Coastal management and maritime issues Regional planning and development

Specific Objective: ‘Smart specialisation’: To enhance growth opportunities based on increased capacity of innovation actors to apply smart specialisation approach

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (9)

Lead Partner: Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Verkehr,Arbeit, Technologie und Tourismus Schleswig-Holstein

Department: Unit "Technology Policy and Technology Transfer"

Address: Düsternbrooker Weg 94, D-24105 Kiel, Germany

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.schleswig-holstein.de/MWAVT/DE/MWAVT_node.html

Total budget: EUR 631 650.00

ERDF budget: EUR 473 737.50

Varsinais-Suomen liitto

Name: Varsinais-Suomen liitto

Address: Box 273, 20101 Turku , Finland

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.varsinais-suomi.fi

Total budget: EUR 204 540.00

ERDF budget: EUR 153 405.00

Rahandusministeerium, WITHDRAWAL (28.02.2018)

Name: Rahandusministeerium, WITHDRAWAL (28.02.2018)

Address: Suur-Ameerika 1, 10122 Tallinn, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: https://www.rahandusministeerium.ee/en

Total budget: EUR 61 241.00

ERDF budget: EUR 52 054.85

Instytut Morski w Gdańsku

Name: Instytut Morski w Gdańsku

Address: Dlugi Targ 41/42, 80-830 Gdańsk, Poland

Legal status: public

Website (not verified): http://www.im.gda.pl

Total budget: EUR 227 600.00

ERDF budget: EUR 193 460.00

Region Skåne

Name: Region Skåne

Department: Department of Regional Development

Address: Västra Storgatan 12, 291 89 Kristianstad, Sweden

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.skane.se

Total budget: EUR 214 225.00

ERDF budget: EUR 160 668.75

Riga Planning Region

Name: Riga Planning Region

Department: International Projects Department

Address: Z.A.Meierovica blvd. 18, LV-1050 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.rpr.gov.lv

Total budget: EUR 220 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 187 000.00

Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology

Name: Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology

Address: Daugavgrīvas 8, LV-1048 Riga, Latvia

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.lhei.lv

Total budget: EUR 76 280.00

ERDF budget: EUR 64 838.00

Stowarzyszenie Pomorskie w UE

Name: Stowarzyszenie Pomorskie w UE

Address: Okopowa 21/27, 80-810 Gdansk, Poland

Legal status: public

Website: http://pomorskieregion.eu/

Total budget: EUR 143 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 121 550.00

Ida-Virumaa Omavalitsuste Liit

Name: Ida-Virumaa Omavalitsuste Liit

Address: Keskväljak 1, 41531 Jõhvi, Estonia

Legal status: public

Website: http://ivol.kovtp.ee

Total budget: EUR 57 509.00

ERDF budget: EUR 48 882.65

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Partners and Projects info

Ministry of Economic Affairs, Transport, Employment, Technology and Tourism Schleswig-Holstein

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Regional Council of Southwest Finland

Smart Specialisation and Blue Growth in the BSR

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Ministry of Finance, WITHDRAWAL (28.02.2018)

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Maritime Institute Gdańsk (MIG)

Smart Specialisation and Blue Growth in the BSR

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Region of Scania

Smart Specialisation and Blue Growth in the BSR

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Rīgas plānošanas reģions

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Latvijas Hidroekoloģijas institūts

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Pomorskie in the EU Association

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Association of Local Authorities of Ida-Viru County

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Lead partner

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Summary

Project name (EN): Smart Specialisation and Blue Growth in the BSR

Project acronym: Smart Blue Regions

Project start date: 2016-03-01

Project end date: 2019-02-28

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 836 045.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 455 596.75

Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 79.30%

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 455 596.75.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Websites / webtools / webforums / cooperative platforms

Smart Blue Regions_ Smart Specialisation and Blue Growth in the BSR - Interreg Baltic Sea Region

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Website / webtool / webforum / cooperative platform

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/projects/

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment link: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/smart-blue-regions/

Reports

Functional review of selection, adaptation and uptake of new policy measures supporting Blue Growth

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/smart-blue-regions/

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2019-01-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Monitoring and Review System for Evaluating, Monitoring and Benchmarking Blue Growth

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/smart-blue-regions/

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2018-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Common elements and lessons learned from RIS3 processes - Analysis of Project Partner Regions. Project Synthesis Report.

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.submariner-network.eu/smartblueregions

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2018-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Advancing the Pomorskie RIS3 Multi-Level Implementation Scheme

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.submariner-network.eu/smartblueregions

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2018-07-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Multi-Level Implementation Scheme RIS3 Ida-Viru region

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.submariner-network.eu/smartblueregions

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Multi-Level Implementation Scheme: The Southwest Finnish partnership approach

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.submariner-network.eu/smartblueregions

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Multi-Level-Implementation Scheme RIS3 Schleswig-Holstein

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.submariner-network.eu/smartblueregions

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Multilevel implementation scheme for RIS3 in Riga Planning Region

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.submariner-network.eu/smartblueregions

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Analysis of the state of the play in Southwest Finland

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.submariner-network.eu/smartblueregions

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2018-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Analysis of the state of the play in Schleswig-Holstein

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.submariner-network.eu/smartblueregions

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2016-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Analysis of state of the play in Riga Planning Region

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.submariner-network.eu/smartblueregions

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2018-06-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Analysis of Region Skåne

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.submariner-network.eu/smartblueregions

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2018-08-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Analysis of state of the play in Pomorskie Region

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.submariner-network.eu/smartblueregions

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2018-05-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Functional review - Ida Virumaa

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.submariner-network.eu/smartblueregions

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Transnational identification of effective BLUE RIS3 implementation measures

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2017-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Promoting Transnational Blue Growth Cooperation Projects – The Smart Blue Regions Experience

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://www.submariner-network.eu/smartblueregions

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2019-02-27

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Studies / surveys

Baltic Sea Region wide study identifying Blue Growth cooperation opportunities

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Study / survey

Data source: https://interreg-baltic.eu/project/smart-blue-regions/

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2017-11-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Maps

Blue Growth focus areas in Estonia (map)

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Map

Data source: https://www.submariner-network.eu/smartblueregions

Publication date: 2022-01-31

Document date: 2019-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Baltic Sea

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-06-16

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

200 / 200 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

2 025 / 2 025 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.interreg-baltic.eu/home.html), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-11-30.

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Smart Specialisation and Blue Growth in the BSR

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