Building the blue biotechnology community in the Mediterranean
10 partners with proved experience in the Blue Bioeconomy field from 8 Med countries and more than 300 Med stakeholders from universities, research centers, public authorities, business support organizations & Med multilateral organizations, working together for 22 months to create the Blue Biotechnologies (BBt) community in the Mediterranean. The exploitation of marine bio-resources through biotechnological solutions is a field with massive potential for innovation & economic growth, but it is a relatively young discipline, so opportunities & key enabling factors need a coordination.B-Blue project aims at gathering the key actors of the Med BBt sector and increase their innovation capacity and their coordination in order to unlock the innovation potential in the field through joint transnational initiatives, involving also organizations from the Southern Shore of the Mediterranean. The transnational coordination framework, the project aims to create, is based on an inclusive quintuple-helix approach always including the socio-environmental perspective in the decisional process and building on a common knowledge ground selected on the basis of its potential of addressing the SGDs at Med level. The B-Blue work towards to the implementation of a transnational coordination mechanism for the BBt community through the mutual interconnection the digital BBt community platform & a Med network of territorial based-collaborative space on selected BBt value chains (BBt HUBs).