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Taking steps towards the capitalisation of Blue Energy in Cyprus
The 3rd Blue Deal Transferring Lab, co-organised by the Cyprus Energy Agency and the Maritime Institute of Eastern Mediterranean on June 14-17, 2021, has been successfully completed. The Lab was organized within the framework of the Interreg Med project Blue Deal and was held under the auspices of the Municipality of Larnaca. The Lab combined online sessions through the project’s platform, as well as on-site sessions at the Cyprus Marine and Maritime Institute in compliance with all the COVID-19 safety measures.The Blue Deal project is co-financed by the European Regional...
BLUE DEAL launches an initiative to create a Blue Energy Transnational Alliance
The project seeks to bring together at least 45 SME’s, Public Administrations, Research and Technical Institutions, and Civil Associations to create cross-border Mediterranean Alliances. bluedealmed.eu/alliancesThe European project BLUE DEAL is launching a new initiative in which it seeks to establish regional cooperation between different stakeholders to promote Blue Energy (BE) in the Mediterranean (MED).The aim is to use the quadruple helix stakeholders’ approach to create a meeting point in which to generate a dialogue, an exchange of ideas, experiences, tools, and opportunities to accelerate blue growth development in the region.This initiative is being set...
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Minimising Energy Consumption for Green Buildings respecting present uses and public needs – GreenBuilding
Mediterranean countries need to reduce energy consumption and adverse environmental impacts due to the high dependence on fossil fuels. GreenBuilding project intends to tackle this challenge by promoting the use of renewable energy sources and energy efficiency measures in public buildings since renewable energies represent a natural competitive advantage for the Mediterranean. The project will support 3 cost-effective public buildings energy refurbishment in Greece, Tunisia and Jordan. Furthermore, it will strengthen the capacities of public institutions to effectively plan and implement sustainable energy policies, through the identification of cost-effective energy refurbishment approaches, transfer of technical know-how and the enhancement of higher research institutions, energy SMEs and business support organizations.
Acronym: GreenBuilding
Full title: Minimising Energy Consumption for Green Buildings respecting present uses and public needs
Thematic objective: B.4 Environmental protection, climate change adaptation and mitigation
Priority: B.4.3 Energy efficiency and renewable energy
Countries: Greece, Spain, Lebanon, Tunisia, Jordan
Total Budget: 2.2 million euro
EU Contribution: 1.9 million euro
Project co-financing: 10%
Website: http://www.enicbcmed.eu/projects/greenbuilding
Interreg MED Modular project - BLUE DEAL - "Blue Energy Deployment Alliance"
The MED area will include Blue Energy (BE) in maritime planning and governance, thanks to BLUE DEAL project. Given the early stage of BE technologies, proper information to deliver consistent strategies, plans and regulations in the BE sector are still missing; this often compromises public-private initiatives for exploiting marine renewable energy and discourages investments. The project’s aim is to overcome current technical and administrative restrictions for BE deployment and define proper requirements and procedures to support decisions and guarantee compliance with regulatory, environmental and social constraints. BLUE DEAL foresights a series of transnational Labs to involve multi-sectorial stakeholders, perform participative planning processes and establish public-private alliances through open innovation actions.
Funding Programme: Interreg MED 2014-2020
Programme objective tackled: Axis 1, sub-objective 1.1
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) co financing rate: 85%
Total budget: 2,981,132.80 €
Project duration: 32 months
website: https://blue-deal.interreg-med.eu/
Interreg MED Modular project – BLUEfasma- "Empowering innovation capacity of SMEs, maritime clusters and networks in MED islands and coastal areas to support blue circular economy growth in fishing/aquaculture"
BLUEfasma integrates and implements Circular Economy (CE) principles in the key blue growth sector of fishing/aquaculture to benefit MED insular/coastal areas in a novel/innovative way. The project team tackles the transnational challenge of continual depletion of natural resources and the below-EU-average MED CE innovation performance in fishing/aquaculture. Its overall objective is to empower innovation capacity of SMEs, maritime clusters/networks, PAs to boost blue CE growth in insular/coastal areas. CE prevents depletion of resources by closing energy & materials loops, leading to smart/sustainable growth as a key MED joint asset.
Funding Programme: Interreg MED 2014-2020
Programme objective tackled: Axis 1, sub-objective 1.1
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) co financing rate: 85%
Total budget: 2,811,585.00 €
Project duration: 32 months
Website: https://bluefasma.interreg-med.eu/
Interreg MED Horizontal Project - “Green Growth”
The Horizontal Project (HP) Green Growth aims to support the Modular Projects (MPs) under the Green Growth thematic of the Interreg MED Programme priority Axis 1 - Innovation. The HP Green Growth will act as a community of projects promoting a sustainable development by fostering innovation through an integrated and territorial based cooperation approach. The HP Green Growth will build upon achievements of the first phase HP SYNGGI and will further maximize the transnational replicability and capitalization potential of results. It will involve the Quadruple helix actors in Mobilization and Mutual Learning workshops and training and matchmaking sessions to share their best practices in the field of green growth and to promote the effective transfer of concrete results into regional/national policies. The expected outcomes will facilitate the creation of multi-stakeholders shared actions plans to highlight new opportunities and to unlock market potentials.
Funding Programme: Interreg MED 2014-2020
Programme objective tackled: Axis 1, sub-objective 1.1
European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) co financing rate: 85%
Total budget: 1,459,999.99 €
Project duration: 32 months
