WP4: Upscale skills to Blue market entrepreneurship

Lead beneficiary: ICSEM

Participants: Uvigo-CdM, ICSEM, Aclunaga, LRU, CIT, MI, Cespesca

Objectives:

A program of advice and training for entrepreneurship will be developed to foster the development and strengthening of the skills and tools necessary for the implementation of business initiatives related to the marine environment. Economic initiatives that will contribute to the promotion of the competitiveness of maritime sector. The identified business niches and emerging sectors will be considered as new opportunities for professional development, defined through benchmarking and strategic studies on each sector. The program will include a reinforcement of the critical capacities necessary for the development of business ideas, both horizontal and technical capacities, a phase of maturation of business ideas of each participant (analysis of the environment, niches, competition ..), a phase of development of the business idea and a final phase in which tools and support will be provided to obtain financing to carry out the business plan

Deliverables:

• D 4.1 Summary report of Blue business opportunities (ICSEM, M12)
• D 4.2 Summary report of Blue Talent Hackathon (MI, M20)
• D 4.3 Summary report of Blue business promotion (ICSEM, M24)
• D 4.4 Entrepreneurship network (CIT, M20)

Description of work

T 4.1 Promotion of blue economy entrepreneurship

Duration: M12 – M24

Description: The program will be developed in parallel in each country over a year, and will consist of three phases: (i) training for entrepreneurship (ii) Blue Talent Hackathon and (iii) pre-incubation of business ideas, matured during the previous phases. The programme will be held by representatives of the labour market and academia. In order to promote the implementation of business plans that offer feasibility indicators, the programme leaders will work in identifying public-private partnerships that support their implementation.

T 4.2 Development of a maritime entrepreneur network

Duration: M12 – M24

Description: A network of entrepreneurs of the different partners of the project so that they can develop joint actions and collaborate among them through a virtual route. This network will be associated to the digital network of Blue Careers (WP2)