Additional activities
In addition to our core initiatives, we believe in the power of collaboration and engagement to create a lasting positive impact on our oceans and coastal communities. That's why we offer a range of additional activities that complement our mission and provide opportunities for individuals, organisations, and businesses to get involved.
Thematic Portfolios
The Thematic Portfolio of Projects is a networking action of the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, running from February 2026 to February 2028. Part of the Partnership's additional activities, the Thematic Portfolio action aims to connect ongoing projects addressing the same theme regardless of their funding source (Partnership co-fund, or other European or national funding). The primary goal of this action is to provide the selected R&I projects with the platform to create and reinforce the connection between projects through networking activities.
Two Thematic Portfolios have been launched so far:
- Thematic Portfolio 1: Innovations and digitalisation for low-impact sustainable small-scale fisheries management in EU sea-basins; and
- Thematic Portfolio 2: Innovations for boosting sustainability in marine algae cultivations and circularity in the blue bioeconomy.
Regular updates can be found on the Thematic Portfolio LinkedIn page.
BLUECO TAP Action
BLUECO-TAP is the Thematic Annual Programming (TAP) of the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, running from February 2026 to February 2028. Part of the Partnership additional activities, BLUECO-TAP aims to foster synergies and create connections between national R&I projects selected by the participating Partner Funding Organisations: France, Sweden, Italy and Greece.
BLUECO-TAP projects address a common general theme: “Building resilience of coastal and marine socio-ecosystems under multiple pressures to support a sustainable blue economy in a changing world.”
Regular updates can be found on the BLUECO-TAP LinkedIn page.
Regional Portfolios
The Regional Portfolios of projects is a networking action of the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership, running from early 2027 to 2029. Part of the Partnership’s additional activities, the Regional Portfolios aim to connect ongoing research and innovation projects addressing the same EU sea-basin, either co-funded by the Partnership or by another national, regional, or EU instrument for a two-year period. Five regional project portfolios will run within the same timeframe, corresponding to the EU sea basins: Mediterranean Sea, Baltic Sea, North Sea, Black Sea, and the Atlantic Ocean.
The goal of the action is to provide the selected projects with a platform to foster connection, to address cooperation needs and challenges at the regional level.
The Regional Portfolio topics are:
- Atlantic Ocean Regional Portfolio: Addressing Atlantic Ocean coastal resilience in practice;
- Black Sea Regional Portfolio: Addressing knowledge gaps in the Black Sea: Information, data exchange and good practices in the context of climate change;
- Mediterranean Sea Regional Portfolio: Fostering inclusive governance and multi-use coastal and maritime infrastructure for sustainable development in the Mediterranean Sea;
- Baltic Sea Regional Portfolio: Improving the Baltic Sea Resilience: Resilience to large-scale events, Infrastructure resilience, ecosystem resilience;
- North Sea Regional Portfolio: Exploring nature-based solutions to address cumulative impacts on marine ecosystems while supporting maritime sea uses.
Exploitation and Impact Network
The aim of the network is to develop tools and actions to transfer new knowledge and increase impact of the co-funded R&I projects at local, national and European level, taking into consideration different target groups: policy makers, civil society and marine and maritime industry.
Ultimately, the Exploitation and Impact Network will contribute to a better co-creation and knowledge transfer between research industry, policy makers, and citizens by:
- making impact pathways mandatory at the project level;
- developing Open Access strategy and addressing Intellectual Property Rights;
- increasing the impact on the target groups needs through capacity building of the applicants to the call;
- promoting innovative solutions and accelerate their market uptake;
- bridging science policy gaps to maximise impact.
Ocean literacy
The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership promotes Ocean Literacy with a multi-faceted, cross-cutting approach that includes, among others, an Ocean Literacy Toolkit, podcasts and short videos, webinars and training for co-funded projects, and targeted efforts to engage ocean businesses. Through these activities, the Partnership aims to encourage the behavioural and attitudinal changes needed to drive the sustainable transformation of Europe’s blue economy. Consequently, it seeks to generate interest in sustainable maritime innovations, career options, investment opportunities, and generally the quest of reconciling economic development with marine ecological integrity. Throughout these efforts, industry actors are targeted to help embed the corporate environmental responsibility needed to affect the transition; the thematic foci are guided by the Intervention Areas and align with the EU4Ocean Coalition.
The Ocean Literacy Toolkit is fully accessible and downloadable below. It is intended both for co-funded projects and the stakeholder community at large, and will be updated regularly to account for the latest developments.
You can also access the Toolkit here.