BlueMissionBANOS Arena 3

Supporters of the 3rd Mission Arena

We would like to thank the following projects and organisations for funding and organising workshops during the 3rd Mission Arena.

AlgaeProBANOS

The mission of AlgaeProBANOS is to demonstrate viability and market accessibility for sustainable and innovative algae-based products and solutions in the Baltic and North Seas. Our vision is a thriving algae industry within Europe, supporting a broad range of innovative, sustainable, bio-based products, whilst generating new regional sustainable industries and economic growth.

BlueBioClusters

This project brings together 12 highly-skilled organisations from 10 European countries. They will join forces to offer blue bioeconomy players innovative business development tools and methods, and will create a long-lasting impact by engaging directly with hundreds of regional actors to stimulate collaboration and positive change.

BlueMissionAA

BlueMissionAA is building a coordination hub to support the Mission implementation in the Atlantic and Arctic basins. The project focuses on the restoration of marine and coastal ecosystems and biodiversity for increased climate resilience, and to foster a dynamic entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem in the Atlantic and Arctic basin by creating a comprehensive catalogue of scientific and practical knowledge, including innovative solutions.

CoP North Sea

The Dutch North Sea Community of Practice brings together entrepreneurs, research institutions, NGOs and government to exchange knowledge and promote initiatives in the Sustainable Blue Economy. With multi-use as one of the main topics that brings experts together to come up with innovative solutions both in the Netherlands and in Europe. The Dutch CoP North Sea has served as an excellent model for European projects, with the eMSP NBSR project as main and successful example. Through the CoP North Sea method experts came together across emerging topics to support MSP planners in the North Sea and Baltic Sea region to achieve coherence of maritime spatial plans across borders.

CrossGov

CrossGov aims to enhance knowledge on how coherence and cross-compliance of marine related policies and legislation affect realizing the Green Deal goals for biodiversity protection, zero pollution and climate change adaptation and mitigation.

Prep4Blue

PREP4BLUE’s overarching objective is to facilitate a successful first phase (2022-2025) of Mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030’. Through co-development and co-creation with stakeholders, the project will deliver a series of communication tools, guidelines, methodologies and recommendations that can be used by Mission funded projects to achieve the Mission objectives and inspire citizens and Mission stakeholders.

ShapingBio

ShapingBio promotes innovation in the European bioeconomy across sectoral, governmental and geographical levels by providing evidence-based information and recommendations for better policy alignment as well as supporting and integrating stakeholders in the bio-based sectors.

Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership

The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership represents an unprecedent effort of 74 Partner institutions from 29 countries and the European Commission to pool research and innovation investments and align national programmes at pan-European scale. As a Horizon Europe co-funded partnership, its strategy takes into consideration the R&I agendas of the sea basins (Mediterranean, Black Sea, Baltic and North Sea) and the Atlantic Ocean and builds on lessons learned from previous initiatives.

TETRAS

TETRAS aims to demonstrate new concepts of industrial symbiosis, where one process’s waste or residual becomes another process’s resource. The project revolves around four pilots working on different water solutions, each tackling unique challenges of RAS and complementing each other.