After 3 years of networking activities and organizing exchanges to foster collaborations between European actors in the Blue and Eco Industries, the Blues project will soon be finished.

To highlight the main Blues activities and impacts, a final dissemination video is available on the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEE4aIKqrS4&ab_channel=P%C3%B4leAqua-Va…

The main figures are the following:

• 54 exchanges were organised through the BluesXchange (29 physical, 25 virtual)
• Direct impact on 34 SMEs who took benefits of the Xchange programme
• 2 study visits for the consortia (Warsaw and Montpellier) + exchange in Lund with WIN cluster
• 9 Peer learning meetings organised during the project lifetime including 6 Peer learning Webinars (PLW) involving 43 cluster staff from 35 different clusters  
• 160 B2B meetings during the project especially during IFAT and Aquatech exchanges
• 3 excellence labels renewing

All the activities were promoted into the ECCP portal. You can find all the Blues materials and dissemination in the following previous articles:

·         LOCAL EVENT TO PROMOTE BLUESXCHANGE

·         BLUES DYNAMIC VIDEO TO PROMOTE THE BLUESXCHANGE PILOT

·         BLUES LAUNCHED PEER LEARNING WEBINARS TO SHARE KNOWLEDGE BETWEEN ESCP4X PARTNERSHIPS

·         BLUES PARTNER OF THE WINNING DAYS

·         WINNING DAYS MAIN RESULTS

·         BLUES PARTNERSHIP UPDATED THEIR INDIVIDUAL STRATEGIES

·         BLUES PEER LEARNING WEBINAR 1

·         DISCUSSION AND KNOWLEDGE SHARING WITH OTHER ESCP-4X PARTNERSHIPS

·         REGISTER NOW FOR THE FIRST BLUES WORKSHOP

·         BALTICNET-PLASMATEC REVISED THEIR TYPE OF CLUSTER MEMBERSHIPS

·         BLUES BOOSTED THE INNOVATION UPTAKE WITH A NEW SPIN-OFF COMPANY

·         BLUES VIRTUAL EXCHANGE

·         1ST TRAINING SESSION OF BLUES

·         BLUES 2ND PROMOTIONAL VIDEO

·         BLUES TESTIMONIAL VIDEO

·         BLUES SUCCESSFUL PEER LEARNING WEBINAR SERIES FINISHED

·         WEBINAR "CLUSTERXCHANGE PROGRAMME: PARTICIPATION TIPS AND NEXT BLUES ACTIONS"

·         A FINANCIAL TOOL FOR SMES, SCALING-UP ORGANISATIONS AND CLUSTER TO BUILD EUROPEAN COLLABORATIONS THROUGH EXCHANGES

·         BLUES GROUP EXCHANGE DURING AQUATECH FAIR

·         BLUES GROUP EXCHANGE TO LUND, SWEDEN

·         TIPS ON HOW TO USE THE IT TOOL FOR YOUR XCHANGE - REPLAY AVAILABLE

·         WRAP-UP OF THE MAIN LESSONS LEARNT FROM THE BLUES PEER LEARNING WEBINARS

·         IFAT BLUES XCHANGE

·         BLUES TRAINING SESSIONS AT A GLANCE

 

 

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