SUPPORTING EUROPEAN COASTAL REGIONS IN THEIR TRANSITION TO A SUSTAINABLE BLUE BIOECONOMY

蓝色生物经济被定义为“将可再生海洋生物资源生产和转化为食品、饲料、生物基产品和生物能源等增值产品”，这为欧洲沿海社区带来了大量机会。基于循环的创新商业模式；短链、数字解决方案和生态系统的贡献为受教育程度较低的人提供了稳定和创造新企业和就业机会的机会；在将偏远的农村地区转变为有趣、充满活力、气候友好的居住地的同时。然而，蓝色生物经济参与者面临着与技术、缺乏知识和技能或监管障碍相关的挑战。BlueBioClusters汇集了来自欧洲各地的13家支持组织，他们都在各自的9个地区高度参与，帮助初创企业、公司和政策制定者充分利用创新。他们联合起来改进、开发和实施新的支持工具和方法，这些工具和方法基于对蓝色生物基价值链、实践案例和激励措施的系统收集、基准制定和联合知识创造；*生态系统服务增值，WP2；*技术需求，识别和转移解决方案，WP3；*创业/中小企业;专家和支持机制（指导；共同创造），WP4；以及*“实践社区”，以促进区域内和区域间利益相关者的长期合作；WP5。虽然我们希望通过与我们区域内的数百个行动者接触，以促进合作和变革行动，在项目生命周期内产生持久的影响；活动将在项目结束后继续进行，并向其他蓝色区域、集群和个别公司开放。为此目的，交互的BlueBioCluster门户网站不仅是项目产出的存储库，而且其设置方式将在项目结束后由其用户不断更新和维护

The Blue Bioeconomy defined as ‘the production and conversion of renewable marine biological resources into value added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy’ entails a large set of opportunities for European coastal communities. Innovative business models based on circularity; short-chains, digital solutions and ecosystem contributions offer the chance to stabilize and create new enterprises and jobs also for the lower-educated; while transforming remote, rural areas also into interesting, revitalized, climatefriendly places to live. However, blue bioeconomy actors struggle with challenges related to technology, lack of knowledge & skills or regulatory barriers. BlueBioClusters brings together 13 support organizations from across Europe, all of them highly engaged in their 9 regions in assisting start-ups, companies and policy makers to make best use of innovations. They have joined forces to improve, develop and implement new support tools and methods based on systematic collection, benchmarking and joint knowledge creation on *blue biobased value chains, practice cases and incentives, WP1; *ecosystem service valorization, WP2; *technology needs, identification and transfer of solutions, WP3; *start-ups/SMEs; experts and support mechanisms (coaching; co-creation), WP4; as well as *‘Communities of Practices’ to foster long-term stakeholder cooperation within and across the regions; WP5. While we expect to create long-lasting impact already within the project lifetime itself by engaging with hundreds of actors within our regions to stimulate collaboration and actions for change; activities are designed to be continued post-project being also open for other Blue Regions, clusters and individual companies to join. To that end the inter-active BlueBioCluster portal is not only a repository of the projects’ outputs, but is set up in such way, that it will be continuously updated and maintained by and with its users also post-project