BluAct 3rd meeting on "Incubation of Blue Economy Startups" at Ostend, Belgium
Overview of the critical steps that need to be followed for moving a Blue Economy competition onwards (evaluation, demo day organisation, incubation, etc.)
DAY 1: 17th September (full day)
Venue: Vives Campus, Lijndraaiersstraat 60, 8400 Oostende
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8.30-9.00 am | Registration |
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9.00-9.30 am | Welcome to Ostend | The Councillor for Economic Development |
9.30-9.45am | Welcome by Marcelline Bonneau, Urbact Programme Expert | Marcelline Bonneau |
9.45–10.00am | Warm Up Exercise | Jim Sims |
10.00–10.15 am | Objectives of the Transnational Network Meeting | Jim Sims |
10.15-11.15 am | Partners Updates & Marketing Presentations (Part I): How your transfer planning activity is progressing. Please present your progress to date on the transfer activity and marketing plans/activities according to the brief sent out prior to the meeting. | All partners |
11.15-11.35 am | Coffee Break |
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11.35-12.35pm | Partners Updates & Marketing Presentations (Part II): How your transfer planning activity is progressing. Please present your progress to date on the transfer activity and marketing plans/activities according to the brief sent out prior to the meeting. | All partners |
12.35-1.35pm | Lunch break |
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1.35-2.20pm | Cluster, Network and Sector Development: methodologies and processes for growing and developing business participation. This will build on the session delivered by BNC in Mataro to explore the Flanders experience, focussing particularly on products/services offered to secure the commitment of business. | Dries Debruyne, Innovation Manager, Blue Cluster |
2.20-3.20pm | Proposal Evaluation and Selection Workshop: Interactive workshop considering how Piraeus evaluates different proposals received from applicants, what recommendations follow for applicants etc | Alexandra Tsatsou, Piraeus |
3.20-3.40pm | Coffee Break |
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3.40 – 4.00pm | Report Back from Galati Extended ULG: What was achieved and how the participation process worked. A report back from Galati | Team Galati |
4.00 – 4.30pm | Mapping Your Customer Journey: Mapping how the overall enterprise competition works in your city, from an applicants’ perspective. | Jim Sims and Team Galati |
4.30-5.00pm | Report Back on the Bologna Summit on Engaging Citizens | Sara Petrone, Salerno |
5.00 – 6.00 pm | Bilateral / Trilateral Funding Blue Growth Programmes | Ostend, Burgas and Piraeus |
DAY 2: 18th September (full day)
Venue: Vives Campus, Lijndraaiersstraat 60, 8400 Oostende
8.30-9.00 | Registration |
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9.00-10.00 am | Co-ordination Meeting: project deliverables, progress, challenges and learnings discussed in a BluAct “fish bowl” | Alexandra Tsatsou & Lida Ampatzi, Piraeus |
10.00 – 10.40am | Preparing to run a Hackathon: how they work, what to consider when commissioning one. How to make your event a success. | Jim Sims & Koen Denys |
10.40-11.00pm | Coffee Break |
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11.00-12.30 am | Hack-day: Interactive Workshop where participants will get to work in teams in a mini-hackathon style exercise. This interactive session will give participants a sense of some of the issues to consider in running a Hackathon | Jim Sims & Koen Denys |
12.30- 12.45pm | A little Indian Head Message … | Oscar Valdivielso |
12.45-1.45pm | Lunch break |
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1.45 – 3.00 pm | Hack-day: Interactive Workshop where participants will get to work in teams in a mini-hackathon style exercise. This interactive session will give participants a sense of some of the issues to consider in running a Hackathon | Jim Sims & Koen Denys |
3.00-3.30pm | Pitching: How to pitch the ideas developed | Jim Sims & Koen Denys |
3.30 – 3.40pm | Coffee Break |
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3.40–5.00pm | Pitch-Fest: The culmination of the Hack-day, where participants will get to work in teams to present the ideas developed and judge each others proposals. | TBC (or Jim Sims) |
DAY 3: 19th September (half day)
Venue: Greenbridge, Wetenschapspark 1, 8400 Oostende
Ferry boat to VLIZ
8.45am | Ferry Boat to VLIZ (Flanders Marine Institute) |
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9.00-10.15am | Visit to VLIZ (Flanders Marine Institute): Understanding more about the work of VLIZ, but also areas of future research, which may yield opportunities to encourage and promote ‘new jobs’ in the blue economy. | Tina Mertens, Vice President. |
10.15-10.30am | Bus to Greenbridge |
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10.30-11.15 am | Greenbridge Incubation Model: Exploration of the incubation process provided by Greenbridge, the city’s existing Blue Economy Incubator. Followed by a short tour | Maxime Depoorter, Project Manager & Noémie Wouters, CEO |
11.15 -11.30am | Coffee Break |
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11.30-12.00pm | Preparing a Transfer Diary from this Transnational Meeting | Jim Sims |
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