BluAct Final Event May 2021
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A hybrid online-offline format event, with live connection and simultaneous venues in 7 port-cities!
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Transfer Story: Salerno Italy
The Municipality took a strategic decision quite early on in the organisation of their activities to integrate a Blue Growth Entrepreneurship Award...
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Transfer Story: Ostend Belgium
The Municipality of Ostend held a launch event for their competition at the GreenBridge Incubator on the 10 th September 2019. The competition was...
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Transfer Story: Matosinhos Portugal
The Municipality set out by building a strong ULG, comprising 13 partners and also secured some commercial sponsorship through SuperBock, to support...
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Transfer Story: Mataro Spain
The city of Mataro aspires to open the city to the sea. The Municipality’s original goals were to promote the blue economy and stimulate new...
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Transfer Story: Galati Romania
The Municipality built a strong URBACT Local Group, comprising members from Universities, the River Authority, NGO’s, public bodies and port-based...
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Transfer Story: Burgas Bulgaria
Burgas were keen to try and use the competition to try to find an innovative idea for a product/service and support entrepreneurs to turn that into a...
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Reaching out into communities to find fledgling entrepreneurs
Business Plan Competitions are essentially a contest where business plans, submitted by aspiring entrepreneurs, are compared, and judged, according...
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Online entrepreneurship programmes offer a solution in the face of Covid-19
Necessity has been the mother of invention for a number of European cities, who, faced with Covid-19 restrictions, have had to adopt a range of...
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Incubation and Mentoring comes in different shapes and sizes
Business Plan competitions are just one way of generating new business ideas within a city and supporting the entrepreneurs to start-up in business...
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How participatory design can help build a strong partnership
Galati used processes and methodologies advocated by URBACT to establish a Local Group to steer their work on creating an effective start-up...