MedBAN – Mediterranean Blue Acceleration Network will mobilize the EU blue economy SMEs to adopt processes and technologies for a greener, more digital and more resilient economy. It will manage two open call schemes to fund a set of services for SMEs on innovation, training, twin transformation and internationalization issues.
MedBAN integrates the Euroclusters’ Initiative and is closely aligned with its specific objectives on networks, innovation, adoption of processes and technologies for the green and digital transition, training for the up and re-skilling of the workforce and internationalization of EU SMEs. It aims to reinforce the EU New Industrial Strategy.
The project consortium comprises six cluster organisations from Portugal, Spain, France, Italy and Greece, with Fórum Oceano as the project leader.
Current Call:
The new MedBAN open call for medium-sized enterprises involved in the Blue Economy offers dedicated funding of 8,965 EUR (per SME) for consulting or training services.
Apply for Internationalisation in the Blue Economy
Apply for Innovation, Training, and Twin Transition in the Blue Economy
Previous Call:
MedBAN deployed two simultaneous but separate open calls for EU Blue Economy SMEs. These open calls awarded financial support that funded two different sets of services: one for innovation, training and twin transformation of businesses and one for internationalisation actions.
A kick-off webinar was organised on November 2022 to publicly present the project’s objectives and to discuss the pathways to a more resilient, green and digital EU Blue Economy, thereby gathering insights and previewing the actions that MedBAN will deploy.
This document maps the blue economy ecosystem in the EU Mediterranean countries of the consortium, further clarifying the inner workings of the ecosystem, its key players, nodes in the value chain, needs, enablers, barriers and opportunities, resulting in a resilience preparedness/continuity plan highlighting new collaboration models. The challenges identified in this deliverable constitute the thematic areas to tackle in the open calls to SMEs.
This document follows on the work developed in the Mapping of the Mediterranean blue economy ecosystem published in February 2023. It aims to highlight the coherence between the sixteen MedBAN challenges identified in the mapping (3/4 challenges per each sector – aquaculture, fisheries, tourism, renewable marine energies and ports) and the national/regional policies and funding instruments of each partner country.
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MedBAN funded SMEs
