Innovation network for development of solutions and technologies for sustainable blue economy in the Adrion region
Programme 2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B IPA Adriatic-IonianDescription
Roadmap for the upgrade and further development of the INNOVABLE community(EN)
Action plan of identifying the most efficient model(s) for innovation testing and funding (EN)
Funding map/Center for funding - web page integration(EN)
Prototypes for future public - private equity fund developed (EN)
Transnational hackathons based on regionally detected challenges (EN)
Thematic information
Priority: (VI-B_IPA-A_1) Supporting a smarter Adriatic Ionian region
Priority specific objective: RSO1.1. Developing and enhancing research and innovation capacities and the uptake of advanced technologies
Priority policy objective (Interreg specific objective): PO1 A more competitive and smarter Europe by promoting innovative and smart economic transformation and regional ICT connectivity
Type of intervention: 028 Technology transfer and cooperation between enterprises, research centres and higher education sector
Partners (9)
Lead Partner: Digitalni inovacijski hub Innovamare
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 881575577
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 40132955702
Address: Velimira Škorpika , 22000 Šibenik, Croatia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Interest groups including NGOs
Website: https://mairos.org/
Total budget: EUR 314 400.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 267 240.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 47 160.00
- Inovacioni centar Mašinskog fakulteta u Beogradu doo
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Name: Inovacioni centar Mašinskog fakulteta u Beogradu doo
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 974830407
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 104274412
Address: Kraljice Marije, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: http://www.inovacionicentar.rs
Total budget: EUR 207 300.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 176 205.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 31 095.00
- ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙΑ ΚΡΗΤΗΣ
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Name: ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙΑ ΚΡΗΤΗΣ
Department: Department of European International Affairs
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 961026337
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 997579388
Address: Eleftherias square, 71201 Heraklion, Greece
Department address: Averof Georgiou, 71201 Heraklion, Greece
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Regional public authority
Website: http://www.crete.gov.gr
Total budget: EUR 174 300.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 148 155.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 26 145.00
- Fond za inovacije Crne Gore
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Name: Fond za inovacije Crne Gore
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 887683958
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 03382052
Address: Mihajla Lalića, 81 000 Podgorica, Montenegro
Legal status: public
Organisation type: National public authority
Website: http://www.fondzainovacije.me
Total budget: EUR 115 740.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 98 379.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 17 361.00
- Факултет за електротехника и информациски технологии, УКИМ - Скопје
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Name: Факултет за електротехника и информациски технологии, УКИМ - Скопје
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999588493
Partner’s ID if not PIC: MK4057009100101
Address: Rugjer Boskovic, 1000 Skopje, North Macedonia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: https://feit.ukim.edu.mk/
Total budget: EUR 136 712.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 116 205.20
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 20 506.80
- Tehnološki park Ljubljana d.o.o.
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Name: Tehnološki park Ljubljana d.o.o.
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 971570431
Partner’s ID if not PIC: SI44444656
Address: Tehnološki park, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Business support organisation
Website: http://www.tp-lj.si
Total budget: EUR 219 060.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 186 201.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 32 859.00
- Unione Regionale delle Camere di Commercio del Veneto
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Name: Unione Regionale delle Camere di Commercio del Veneto
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999734478
Partner’s ID if not PIC: 02406800272
Address: Via delle Industrie , 30175 Marghera - Venezia, Italy
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Business support organisation
Website: https://www.unioncamereveneto.it/
Total budget: EUR 195 000.02
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 165 750.01
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 29 250.01
- Università degli Studi di Trieste
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Name: Università degli Studi di Trieste
PIC (Participant Identification Code): 999842051
Partner’s ID if not PIC: IT00211830328
Address: Piazzale Europa , IT-34127 Trieste, Italy
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Higher education and research organisations
Website: https://www.units.it/
Total budget: EUR 129 365.50
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 109 960.67
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 19 404.83
- Hrvatska gospodarska komora
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Name: Hrvatska gospodarska komora
Department: Centre for Innovations and EU Projects
Partner’s ID if not PIC: HR85167032587
Address: Rooseveltov trg, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Department address: Nova cesta, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Legal status: public
Organisation type: Business support organisation
Website: http://www.hgk.hr
Total budget: EUR 211 500.00
Partner’s programme co-financing: EUR 179 775.00
Partner’s programme co-financing rate: 85.00%
Partner contribution: EUR 31 725.00
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Lead partner
Project partner
Summary
Project acronym: INNOVABLUE
Project ID: IPA-ADRION00278
Project start date: 2024-07-01
Project end date: 2026-12-31
Project status: ongoing
Relevant linked projects:
- OIS-AIR (EN) | OIS–AIR project was working on establishing and developing the Open Innovation System of the Adriatic-Ionian Region and has set up the base for the INNOVABLUE project. Through its Hub, within the project it has local assets and excellences-research infrastructures, incubators and accelerators, specializations, human capital to create a critical mass, crucial to meet the tech&inno needs of SMEs and generate societal growth. Its focus was on strategic planning and policy commitment; skills development; design of tailored tools, methodologies & services; deployment of pilot industry-research collaboration schemes in different fields and sectors. INNOVABLUE will built on its results by working with some of the same Partners organizations CCE and TPLJ but also AREA Science Park as Associated partners but also focus on one specific sector blue economy and subsector of marine (blue) technologies and accompanied innovations using and capitalizing detected potential through OIS-AIR. (EN), BEAT (EN) | Project BEAT financed by the first call of Standard + Interreg Italy – Croatia 2014 – 2020 programme was focused to promote a transnational cluster to sustain the economic development of Italian and Croatian actors in the Blue Economy sectors. INNOVABLUE will built on the results produced by the project especially drawing conclusions and lessons learned from created cross-border cluster in maritime and shipbuilding sectors including actors and SMEs in other sectors of blue sector chain. These lessons will especially be important for the work under the WP1 where INNOVABLUE will look into upgrade of the innovation community but also in the WP4 where technology transfer activities will surly be relevant for shipbuilding companies and research organization having innovation relevant for this context. (EN), BLUETECH (EN) | BLUETECH PROJECT was financed by the target call on EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region EUSAIR of IPA cross border cooperation 2007 – 2013. Its overall objective was to contribute to the development of macro regional Cluster technologies in green shipbuilding sector in the Adriatic-Ionian area pursuing the purposes identified by the Topic “Blue Technologies” – Pillar 1 “Blue Growth” of the European Union strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAR) through the development of a feasibility study, a networking platform, consultation and promotion in the territory. Similar to other projects and initiatives listed here BLUETECH Is focused on shipbuilding and INNOVABLUE will use its insights for the involvement of new actors in the community but will look beyond shipbuilding and focus on the results of the project in relation to key players in the area regarding marine (blue) technologies. (EN), Financial Instruments for Innovation - Innova-FI (EN) | Financial Instruments for Innovation - Innova-FI partners are seeking to improve the design and implementation of Financial Instruments as a delivery mode of Structural Funds, so that they best meet and serve the financing needs of innovative and RTDI-driven businesses in all the stages of their start-up and growth. Innova-FI partners will do this by learning about the innovation landscape, and how it is being publicly financed, in partner regions. This initiative will be a relevant point of reference for the activities under the WP3 where INNOVABLE is looking to diversify funding mechanisms for blue technologies in different regions especially those less developed. (EN), Blue Bio Med (EN) | The Blue bioeconomy in the Mediterranean needs better governance of innovation policies, with a transnational approach, focusing on fulfilling the Agenda 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through innovation. BLUE BIO MED aims at bridging the transnational governance frameworks active in the Mediterranean area (i.e. UfM, UNEP-MAP, EUSAIR, WestMed, Bluemed Initiative, etc.) with the territorial - regional/national – policy making. R&I strategies for smart specialisation (RIS3) are the key entry point to understand and orient the innovation trends and priorities across MED regions and connect transnational cooperation with investments for growth and jobs of the Cohesion Policy. The project BLUEBIOMED will be an open platform for an inclusive co-design process with the wider innovation community promoting a bottom-up MED Innovation Alliance for the blue bioeconomy to streamline multiple efforts and initiatives around the Mediterranean. BLUE BIO MED will support the start-up of the Alliance to boost the Mediterranean leadership in transformative innovation of the blue economy. INNOVABLUE will align its efforts with Blue Bio Med initiative and involve some of the project main stakeholders in its innovation network but also include challenges in its search for innovations in blue technologies working toward clean and green/blue solutions. (EN), Neorion/Neorion Plus (EN) | The Project NEORION PLUS is a follow-up of the previous funded project NEORION, it aims at promoting the results of the project NEORION in the Adriatic-Ionian on Green Shipbuilding in order to accelerate both the cooperation of key actors & innovation in the industry. Similar to other project dealing with improvement in shipbuilding industries INNOVABLUE will take account of this specific sector of blue economy and open a dialog with project main stakeholders in order to look into the possibilities of innovations in marine technologies mainly concerning shipbuilding and possibilities of project NEORION plus to be involved in some of the activities in WP1 and WP4. (EN), InnovaMare (EN) | The biggest synergies INNOVABLE is achiving are the synergies with 2 strategic project one of which is InnovaMare, and one can say its it continuation but also upgrade of this success story into the Adrion region. INNOVAMARE project was financed under INTERREG ITALY-CROATIA as a Strategic Projects and has managed to enhance framework conditions on cross-border level by jointly developing and implementing policy instruments and innovative solution with key players as a frame for development of innovative technologies for sustainability of Adriatic Sea. The project focus was on using mix of policy instruments together with innovation players to increase effectiveness of innovation activities of underwater robotics and sensors in direction of sustainability of Adriatic sea as a crucial strategical societal challenge on cross-border level. Out of 9 INNOVAMARE main outputs INNOVABLUE project will capitalize and uptake following: :
- 1. Development of a cross-border network for scientific-research sector and the private sector based on demand and offers
- 5. Pilot action I. - creating a prototype that is innovative robotic solution as a platform for development of solutions for monitoring and prediction of the sea pollution,
- 6. Pilot action II. – analysis of the obtained results on pilot action I and guidelines for the improvement of underwater conditions,
- 7. Established DIH (Digital innovation Hub) for innovative underwater robotics and sensors and living lab in Adriatic sea,
- 8. Developed strategy and action plan for the enhancement of framework conditions for raising collaboration and networking in the field of robotics and sensors for further steps in public policies based on quadruple helix approach,
- 9. Policy recommendations. (EN), BlueAIR (EN) | BlueAIR is financed under INTERREG ADRION as a Strategic project and is one of the 2 main projects INNOVABLE is in synergy with. Through the development of a Macro-Regional S3 on Blue Growth and the dedicated Innovation Community, BLUEAIR aims at enhancing institutional capacities of ADRION territories in the definition of a common S3 policy on Blue Growth and guaranteeing the alignment of local initiatives with the EUSAIR strategy. Adopting a coordinated approach will improve administrative capacities, innovativeness, and economic development for participating territories as well as for the whole ADRION area.
- Improving competences of innovation players on Blue Growth, identifying sectors of macro-regional interest, exploiting potentials for transnational cooperation, supporting the development of a single Macro-Regional S3 on BG in the Adriatic- Ionian: these objectives are reached by the involvement of the quadruple helix actors in the definition of a common strategic vision by means of enabling tools, capacity building initiatives and effective EDP practices and instruments. Supported by scientific experts and technical documentation, BLUEAIR offers to quadruple helix actors a view on the future scenarios of the Blue Growth sectors enabling them to take advantage of the sector transnational opportunities.2 seas, many untapped market opportunities in Blue Growth, different coastal and inland territories involved moving toward one single approach: the BLUEAIR Macro-Regional S3 on Blue Growth. INNOVABLE will specificaly focus on the following outputs: capitalize on developed institutional capacities of ADRION territories in the definition of a common S3 policy on Blue economy and create recommendation for the implementation of the Innovation strategy of Blue economy. With WP2 INNOVABLUE will work on already adopted coordinated approach to improve administrative capacities for innovations in participating territories as well as for the whole ADRION area. (EN)
Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 703 377.52
Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 447 870.88
Total EU funding (co-financing rate): 85.00%
Co-financing sources:
Investments, deliverables, policy contributions
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Deliverables:
- 25 interviews with most desirable potential members of INOVABLUE community
- Map of Excellence of Adrion region for stakeholders involved in Blue tech and Blue Economy
- 10 Signed agreements with different organizations joining community from participating countries
- Min. 3 new living lab (testing) sites agreements signed.
- Operational rulebook including manifesto update
- Roadmap for the upgrade and further development of the INNOVABLE community
- "How to create a functional and successful innovation community" - Guidelines document
- Comparative analysis of Adrion regional/national regulatory framework challenges
- 10 meetings with relevant regional, national and institutions on EU level conducted
- 5 two-day working meetings with minutes and conclusions in form of a action paper
- Regulatory sandbox prototyping action plan
- Funding map/Center for funding; web page integration
- White paper on macro-regional investment instrument with policy recommendations
- 10 meetings with relevant decision makers on regional and EU level.
- 15 innovative solutions portfolios developed
- 2 matchmaking events
- Blue Fund regulatory framework analysis with recommendations and action plan
- 3 days Ideation workshop
- 2 prototypes of Blee Fund developed and evaluated
- Possible Fund members detected and approached 20 meetings
- 10 letter of intent signed
- 5 thematic working group discussions
- 3 POC developed
- Technology transfer Academy with 30 participants from ADRION region
- 30 teams as challenge participants in total average of 90 persons
- 2 transnational hackathons
- 5 awards to Blue Champions (5000 EUR value each) through expert providers
- 20 mentoring sessions to 5 Blue Champions
Contribution to wider strategies and policies:
- EUStrategyAdriaticIonianRegion EUSAIR among other aims to promote sustainable economic and social prosperity with a focus on areas of (macro) mutual interest. One of the PILLAR 1: BLUE GROWTH, objectives is promoting research, innovation and business opportunities in
- the sectors of the blue economy, in order to respond to the need to encourage cooperation between research and the public and private sector,
- as well as users, to develop innovative products and services and transfer technologies. It contributes to the overall objective of Pillar 1 and Action plan because INNOVABLUE with its jointly developed innovative network for marine (blue) technologies together with transnational solutions will enhance circulation between research and
- business communities, increase their capacity to network and cooperate and access to finances It's referring to pillar 3 because it is mission oriented on sustainability of Adriatic Sea by creating innovation ecosystem that will enhance development of new innovative solutions for
- monitoring of sea pollution as support for efficient and sustainable use of resources
- EuropeanGreenDeal Protecting the environment and oceans as they represent a source of natural and economic wealth for Europe is a must. Preservation and protection is needed in order to ensure that they continue sustaining Europe and the world population in the future.
- European Green Deal priorities include
- - protecting our biodiversity and ecosystems
- - reducing air, water and soil pollution
- - moving towards a circular economy
- - improving waste management
- - ensuring the sustainability of our blue economy and fisheries sectors
- By working on these key areas, the EU will improve the health and quality of life of citizens, address environmental problems and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
- INNOVABLUE through its activities is working on development of marine (blue) and other blue habitats in the region such as rivers and lakes technologies that will enable digital and green transformation of blue economy sectors so they will have lower impact on Adriatic sea and become
- more sustainable. There is a pressing need for innovative solutions that can efficiently be deployed on mass scale to cover larger areas and to enable the further research and adoptive measures in the blue economy sector.
- Other Smart Specialization Strategy of participating countries on national and regional level involve different sectors and niches of Blue economy. Indeed, investing in the blue economy it requires interaction and cooperation between financial instruments at national and international level. Each participating country has some specifies in relation to the S3 strategies however there are common directions and focus and this will be coordinated and researched but also taken to the transnational level by work under the WP 2 mainly but also under WP4 in the context of transfer of technology.
Programme Common Output Indicator:
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RCO 084 - Pilot actions developed jointly and implemented in projects, Measurement unit:
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RCO 116 - Jointly developed solutions, Measurement unit:
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RCO 083 - Strategies and action plans jointly developed, Measurement unit:
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RCO 087 - Organisations cooperating across borders, Measurement unit:
Programme Common Result Indicator:
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RCR 084 - Organisations cooperating across borders after project completion, Measurement unit:
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RCR 104 - Solutions taken up or up-scaled by organisations, Measurement unit:
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RCR 079 - Joint strategies and action plans taken up by organisations, Measurement unit:
Project part of European Union Macro-Regional or Sea Basin Strategy: EUSAIR
EUSAIR Priority (Policy) area / Horizontal action:
EUSAIR Degree of compliance:
Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project
Financing programme
2021 - 2027 Interreg VI-B IPA Adriatic-Ionian
Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme
2025-06-23
No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)
70 / 70 (100%)
No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)
638 / 638 (100%)
Notes on the data