BLUegrowth cities in ACTion

Programme 2014 - 2020 URBACT III

Date of latest update: 2025-01-21

Description

Description (EN):

The city of Piraeus put in place BlueGrowth Initiative (BGI), an innovation competition for Blue Economy, to strengthen traditional economic activities related to the maritime sector with innovative business ideas. BGI helps young entrepreneurs realise innovative concepts and create jobs in Blue Economy. BGI comprises: innovative proposals submission, evaluation, an award ceremony, and an incubation programme. The heart of BGI is Marinescape, a quadruple-helix ecosystem for Blue Economy.

Achievements (EN):

The BluAct Network has been an active Transfer Network, with a strong transfer culture, where all partners are active in delivering blue growth entrepreneurship competitions in their city, under the strong leadership of the city of Piraeus. Partners display a strong commitment to the subject of blue growth and are keen to strengthen their blue growth entrepreneurship systems. The city of Piraeus is a strong lead partner, which is active in the management of the network, which has a strong project management, communication and finance team. The network partners are positive about their transfer experience to date, with the majority of partners being confident that they will deliver on the goals set out in their Transfer Plans. Where there are concerns that partners are not going to deliver on the goals set out in the Transfer Plans, these have been caused by slight slippages in timelines and/or budgetary challenges which have meant partners have needed to reprofile their original plans. In saying this, partners still remain committed to delivering a high-quality transfer. The Good Practice itself is characterised by a linear process, which makes it relatively simple for partners to implement. The partner cities in question have implemented a variety of activities to generate business ideas in their cities - something that the cities with lower levels of entrepreneurship have found necessary to do, to generate sufficient entrants to their competitions. At the time of writing, all the cities who have launched and closed their competitions have between 7 – 35 entrants to their blue growth entrepreneurship programmes and are likely to be able to select a winner. That said, many of the partners have experienced some disruption, due to the Covid-19 situation with the transition into the Incubation process being delayed in most cities. Whilst this might impact on the number of businesses and jobs created, all the cities have found the experience very useful and a number plan to continue their commitment to Blue Growth Entrepreneurship as they come out of Coronavirus restrictions.

Website: http://www.urbact.eu

Thematic information

Labour market and employment SME and entrepreneurship

Specific Objective: To improve the design of sustainable urban strategies and action plans in cities

Thematic Objective:

(11) enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration through actions to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administrations and public services related to the implementation of the ERDF, and in support of actions under the ESF to strengthen the institutional capacity and the efficiency of public administration.

Investment Priority:

(11 ETC) ETC specific for interregional cooperation: enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration by enhancing institutional capacity of public authorities and stakeholders and efficient public administration by disseminating good practices and expertise and capitalising on the results of the exchange of experience in relation to sustainable urban development, including urban-rural linkages pursuant to point (3)(b) of Article 2 (exchange of experience concerning the identification, transfer and dissemination of good practices in relation to sustainable urban development, including urban-rural linkages)

Partners (7)

Lead Partner: Piraeus

Department: Executive City Councillor'-s Office for Local Economic Growth an Entrepreneurship

Address: Dragatsi 12,, 18535 Piraeus, Greece

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 207 872.93

ERDF budget: EUR 145 511.03

Comune di Salerno

Name: Comune di Salerno

Address: Via Roma - Palazzo di Città, Salerno, 84121 Salerno, Italy

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 54 499.00

ERDF budget: EUR 46 324.15

AJUNTAMENT DE MATARÓ (Public administration)

Name: AJUNTAMENT DE MATARÓ (Public administration)

Address: RIERA 48, 8301 MATARO, Spain

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 68 498.00

ERDF budget: EUR 47 948.60

Galati

Name: Galati

Address: Str, Domneasca nr, 38, 800435 Galati, Romania

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 70 421.61

ERDF budget: EUR 59 858.37

City of Ostend

Name: City of Ostend

Address: Stadhuis, Vindictivelaan 1, 8400 OSTEND, Belgium

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 64 828.00

ERDF budget: EUR 45 379.60

Municipality of Matosinhos

Name: Municipality of Matosinhos

Address: Av, D, Afonso Henriques - Paços do Concelho, 4450-510 Matosinhos, Portugal

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 98 627.76

ERDF budget: EUR 83 833.61

Burgas

Name: Burgas

Address: 26 Aleksandrovska street, 8000 Burgas, Bulgaria

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 80 848.74

ERDF budget: EUR 68 721.43

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Comune di Salerno

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AJUNTAMENT DE MATARÓ (Public administration)

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Galati

BLUegrowth cities in ACTion

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Stad Oostende

BLUegrowth cities in ACTion

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Câmara Municipal de Matosinhos

BLUegrowth cities in ACTion

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Burgas

BLUegrowth cities in ACTion

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Piraeus

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Summary

Project name (EN): BLUegrowth cities in ACTion

Project acronym: BLUACT

Project start date: 2018-04-04

Project end date: 2021-06-04

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 645 596.04

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 497 576.79

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 497 576.79.

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.

Videos / films

BluAct Final Meeting 28 May 2021

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2021-05-28

Languages: es, en

Workshop: Politicians engagement

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2022-06-28

Languages: es, en

Workshop: Digital Needs for delivering a Blue Hackathon

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2022-11-16

Languages: en

BluAct partners progress report

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2022-06-28

Languages: en

Roleplay Workshop: Blue Hackathon

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2022-11-16

Languages: en

Piraeus Blue Hackathon Day 202

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2022-06-09

Languages: el, en

BluAct TNM#2 - Day 2

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2022-01-27

Languages: en

BLUACT The Documentary | Chapter 0 | Intro titles

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2021-06-07

Languages: en

BLUACT The Documentary | Chapter 1 | What is the Blue Economy?

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2021-05-26

Languages: el, en

BLUACT The Documentary | Chapter 2 | The Story of the Blue Growth Competition

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2021-05-27

Languages: el, en

BLUACT The Documentary | Chapter 3 | The URBACT programme

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2021-05-27

Languages: en

BLUACT The Documentary | Chapter 4 | Bluact: 7 Port Cities Across Europe

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2021-05-27

Languages: en

BLUACT The Documentary | Chapter 5 | BluAct at Work

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2021-05-27

Languages: en

BLUACT The Documentary | Chapter 6 I Six New Blue Entrepreneurship Competitions

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2021-05-27

Languages: en

BLUACT The Documentary | Chapter 7 | The Winning Start-Ups

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2021-05-27

Languages: en

BLUACT The Documentary | Chapter 8 | “What Did We Learn?”

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2021-05-27

Languages: en

BLUACT The Documentary | Chapter 9 | The Future

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2021-05-27

Languages: en

BLUACT The Documentary | Extra

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2021-05-27

Languages: en

Mataro BluAct Awards: The finalists

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-09-25

Languages: es, en

Jim Sims: Message for Premis BluAct Mataro Awards

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2021-05-27

Languages: en

Piraeus message for Premis BluAct Mataro Awards

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-07-16

Languages: en

Vox pop: Federica Navas, Salerno Italy ULG Coordinator

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-05-13

Languages: pt, en

Forum Oceano (Matosinhos URBACT Local Group) vox pop

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-05-02

Languages: en

Galati Romania Hackathon

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-05-02

Languages: ro

BurgasBlueS: Hackathon

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-05-02

Languages: bg

Matonsinhos winner: Interview with Susana Alipio from BioWorld project

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2022-11-16

Languages: pt, en

Matosinhos finalist: Interview with Sara Antunes from PinkTech

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-05-02

Languages: pt, en

Matosinhos finalist: Interview with Luis Gomes from BlueContainer

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-05-02

Languages: pt, en

Burgas BlueS Contest Radio Spot

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-03-05

Languages: bg, en

Mayor Luisa Salgueiro: Call for participation in the BluAct Matosinhos StartUp

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-02-10

Languages: pt, en

Vitor Vasconelos (CIIMAR): Blue Entrepreneurship in Matosinhos Portugal

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-02-10

Languages: pt, en

Mataro VoxPop: Arderiu & Marta

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-02-10

Languages: pt

Galati Romania: Blue Economy Entrepreneurship Hackathon / 14 November 2019

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-01-24

Languages: ro

TV interview: Mataró Premis BluAct public in the local news!! (subtitles in description)

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-01-24

Languages: pt

Velichka Velikova / BurgasBlueS project Leader

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-01-24

Languages: bg, en

Μatosinhos: A Blue Entrepreneurship competition coming on February 2020!

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-01-24

Languages: en, pt

Mataró: INTERVIEW TO CITY COUNCILLOR NÚRIA MORENOADHESION TO BARCELONA NAUTICAL CLUSTER

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-01-24

Languages: es

Antonia from Mataro: We are visiting the TecnoCampus incubator

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-01-24

Languages: en

Pavlin Ivanov / CEIBG / ULG member and sponsor of BurgasBlueS

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2020-01-24

Languages: bg, en

Dimitrios Karidis and Antonios Milias - Municipality of Piraeus

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2019-11-30

Languages: el, en

What color do you see? - BluAct Mataró Awards for Blue Economy

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2019-11-18

Languages: es, en

Sara Petrone from Salerno, Italy: We are BluAct!

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2019-11-08

Languages: it, en

Liliana Mihalcea: Galati, Romania ULG Coordinator Vox Pop

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2019-11-08

Languages: it, en

Raffaele Lupacchini, Salerno, Italy. BluAct: Il mare tra identità e sviluppo

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2019-07-05

Languages: it, en

Toni Tio, Developing the Matine & Maritime Sector - BluAct

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2019-06-21

Languages: en

BluAct case study: Sotiris Kokkinos, CEO FEAC ENGINEERING P.C.

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2019-06-21

Languages: en

BluAct case study: Christos Spatharakis, CEO FERRYHOPPER

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2019-06-21

Languages: en

BluAct kick-off Transnational Meeting - Piraeus, Greece - 26 to 28 Feb 2019

Attachment type: link

Type of document: Video / film

Data source: http://www.urbact.eu

Publication date: 2022-11-16

Document date: 2019-06-21

Languages: en

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

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 URBACT III

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

2023-03-28

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

88 / 88 (100%)

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

716 / 716 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.urbact.eu), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-12-13, 2023-01-03 and 2024-02-01.

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BLUegrowth cities in ACTion

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