Events
1st Summit of the Blue Economy Business and Science Forum
The EU Blue Economy provides over 5 million jobs and approximately 4% of Europe’s Gross Domestic Product. New technologies, including underwater engineering and DNA sequencing offer possibilities to increase this contribution. To capture this potential, the European Commission has launched a Blue Growth initiative which explores new ways to contribute to the EU's economy through technological, industrial and financial innovation whilst respecting the scarcity and vulnerability of marine resources.
The Blue Economy Business and Science Forum is a platform for business, science, finance and policy representatives to exchange knowledge and experience, discuss opportunities and barriers for innovation in the Blue Economy and celebrate scientific and industrial achievements. It will provide a sounding board for industry and an opportunity for the participants to provide timely advice to the Commission.
The Hamburg Summit will gather together over 200 Blue Economy stakeholders to discuss and propose solutions on:
- how to boost the European competitiveness in marine and maritime technologies;
- how to increase cooperation between science and industrial sectors;
- and how to fully demonstrate the value of innovative technologies, scale them up and bring them to the market.
Venue: International Maritime Museum in Hamburg
On-line registration: https://scic.ec.europa.eu/fmi/ezreg/BLUECONSCI2016/start
More information and agenda of the event can be found here: http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/mare/itemdetail.cfm?subweb=342&lang=en&item_id=31238
