New opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in the Atlantic Area

Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Atlantic Area

Date of latest update: 2023-03-02

Description

Description (EN):

Marine aquaculture (fish, shellfish, algaculture) is a leading sector of the Atlantic area blue economy that counts on an important tradition in many EU countries and that is relevant in many of its coasts. As only 10% of Atlantic shore seafood is aquaculture-sourced there is great opportunity for raising its production in the Atlantic Area in a sustainable way. Access2Sea aims to improve the attractiveness of the Atlantic shore for aquaculture SMEs by enabling new business opportunities and providing sustainable and easier access to it. Its objective is to enhance the exploitation and preservation of the Atlantic Area’s natural assets by unlocking the existing barriers to provide the industry with technical solutions, enabling onshore production and disseminating existing and new solutions and providing support to the aquaculture SMEs to fix them or attract them to the Atlantic Area.

Description (PT):

A Aquacultura pode potenciar o crescimento económico e a criação de emprego no que respeita aos produtos do mar, mediante a melhoria da exploração e preservação dos recursos naturais do Espaço Atlântico sendo a criação de novas explorações sustentáveis um fator chave para a economia azul na região (limitada pela regulamentação e a reduzida aceitação social destes negócios). O projeto Access2Sea visa melhorar a atratividade do Espaço Atlântico para a aquacultura facilitado um acesso mais fácil e sustentável a oportunidades de negócio.

Description (ES):

La acuicultura puede potenciar el crecimiento económico y la creación de empleo en lo que respecta a los productos del mar mediante la mejora de la explotación y preservación de los recursos naturales del Espacio Atlántico, siendo la creación de nuevas explotaciones sostenibles un factor clave para su economía azul (limitada por la reglamentación y la reducida aceptación social). Access2Sea visa mejorar el atractivo del Espacio Atlántico para la acuicultura facilitando un acceso más sostenible a la oportunidad de negocio.

Description (FR):

L’aquaculture peut impulser le développement économique et la création d’emploi dans le domaine des productions marines grâce à l’amélioration de l’exploitation et à la préservation des ressources naturelles de l'Espace Atlantique, la création de nouvelles fermes durables étant un facteur clé pour son économie bleue (limitée par la réglementation et la faible acceptation sociale). Acces2Sea vise à améliorer l'attractivité de l'Espace Atlantique pour l’aquaculture en facilitant un accès plus durable à des opportunités d’affaires.

Achievements (EN):

New opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in Atlantic Area Marine aquaculture (fish, shellfish, algaculture) is a leading sector of the Atlantic Area Blue Economy and is very relevant in many of its coastal areas. As only 10% of Atlantic shore seafood is aquaculture-sourced there is a great opportunity for raising aquaculture production in a sustainable way. ACCESS2SEA improves the attractiveness of the Atlantic shore for aquaculture SMEs by enabling new business opportunities and providing sustainable and easier access to it. The objective is to enhance the exploitation and preservation of the natural assets by unlocking the existing barriers, facilitating terrestrial production, disseminating solutions, and providing support to aquaculture SMEs, to strengthen or attract them to settle on the Atlantic shore. ACCESS2SEA integrates a market approach to the development of SMEs by supporting their generic productive investment, technology transfer and universityenterprise cooperation, business development, and support to social enterprises. The project provides SMEs access to tools to identify investment opportunities and space for the implementation of aquaculture farms in the Atlantic Area. It also promotes the improvement of business models, by supporting the creation of new businesses, providing training and information about the legal and regulatory framework. It supports the development of pilots with new investments for aquaculture and new models of intelligent facilities, creating more productive aquaculture companies. In the end, the project facilitates more social acceptability, as consumers are more receptive to products coming from aquaculture. ACCESS2SEA contributes to boosting economic development and job creation in the seafood sector by the sustainable exploitation of the Atlantic Area natural assets, as creating new sustainable farms is a key element for the blue economy in the region.

Website: https://www.atlanticarea.eu/

Expected Results (EN):

- Enable SMEs to assess spatial opportunities to settle in the Atlantic shore new aquaculture business, supporting them in exploiting the natural assets in a sustainable way. - Increase awareness of the aquaculture activities needs, potential and contribution to local development. - Creation of specific tools to support partners and other relevant decision/policy makers in the promotion and dissemination of the existing opportunities and sites of their territories for installing aquaculture activities. - Increase the cooperation between the aquaculture triple helix in those territories.

Expected Outputs (EN):

- 1 Access2Sea methodology (and tools) to identify territorial opportunities for installing aquaculture services in the project territories and correspondent opportunities map. - 1 Access2Sea social acceptance strategy and road map for its implementation. - Access2Sea Business Models and road maps for its implementation. - 2 Acess2sea prospective missions to develop aquaculture economic activity across the Atlantic area. - 6 pilot projects (talking the project field: spatial planning, social acceptance, business development). - 1 project communication plan (and correspondent communication tools). - 1 action for change action plan and position paper to assure the capitalization of the project achievements.

Thematic information

SME and entrepreneurship Agriculture and fisheries and forestry

Specific Objective: Strengthening the transfer of innovation results to facilitate the emergence of new products, services and processes

Thematic Objective: (01) strengthening research, technological development and innovation by:

Investment Priority:

(01b) promoting business investment in R&I, developing links and synergies between enterprises, research and development centres and the higher education sector, in particular promoting investment in product and service development, technology transfer, social innovation, eco-innovation, public service applications, demand stimulation, networking, clusters and open innovation through smart specialisation, and supporting technological and applied research, pilot lines, early product validation actions, advanced manufacturing capabilities and first production, in particular in key enabling technologies and diffusion of general purpose technologies

Partners (9)

Lead Partner: Fundación Bahía de Cádiz para el Desarrollo Económico

Address: EL PUERTO DE SANTA MARÍA, Spain

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 278 497.08

ERDF budget: EUR 208 872.81

Fundación Centro Tecnológico Acuicultura de Andalucía

Name: Fundación Centro Tecnológico Acuicultura de Andalucía

Address: El Puerto de Santa María (Cádiz), Spain

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 221 843.76

ERDF budget: EUR 166 382.82

Údarás na Gaeltachta

Name: Údarás na Gaeltachta

Address: Galway, Ireland

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 268 750.00

ERDF budget: EUR 201 562.50

Innovation & Management Centre CLG T/A WestBIC

Name: Innovation & Management Centre CLG T/A WestBIC

Address: Galway, Ireland

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 169 087.00

ERDF budget: EUR 126 815.25

CRIA-Divisao de Emprendedorismo e Transferenecia de Tecnología

Name: CRIA-Divisao de Emprendedorismo e Transferenecia de Tecnología

Address: Faro, Portugal

Legal status: public

Total budget: EUR 200 008.92

ERDF budget: EUR 150 006.69

Swansea University

Name: Swansea University

Address: Swansea, United Kingdom

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 260 959.68

ERDF budget: EUR 195 719.76

Tecnopole Quimper-Cornuaille

Name: Tecnopole Quimper-Cornuaille

Address: Quimper, France

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 187 128.00

ERDF budget: EUR 140 346.00

INVESTIR EN FINISTÈRE

Name: INVESTIR EN FINISTÈRE

Address: Brest, France

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 155 310.00

ERDF budget: EUR 116 482.50

Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental da Universidade do Porto

Name: Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental da Universidade do Porto

Address: Matosinhos, Portugal

Legal status: private

Total budget: EUR 125 521.48

ERDF budget: EUR 94 141.11

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Fundación Centro Tecnológico Acuicultura de Andalucía

New opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in the Atlantic Area

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The Gaeltacht Authority

New opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in the Atlantic Area

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Innovation & Management Centre CLG T/A WestBIC

New opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in the Atlantic Area

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Universidade do Algarve

New opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in the Atlantic Area

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Fundación Bahía de Cádiz para el Desarrollo Económico

New opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in the Atlantic Area

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Swansea University

New opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in the Atlantic Area

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Tecnopole Quimper-Cornuaille

New opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in the Atlantic Area

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INVESTIR EN FINISTÈRE

New opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in the Atlantic Area

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Centro Interdisciplinar de Investigação Marinha e Ambiental da Universidade do Porto

New opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in the Atlantic Area

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Summary

Project name (EN): New opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in the Atlantic Area

Project name (PT): Novas oportunidades para um crescimento azul mais competitivo e sustentável no Espaço Atlântico

Project name (ES): Nuevas oportunidades para un crecimiento azul más competitivo y sostenible en el Espacio Atlántico

Project name (FR): Nouvelles opportunités pour une croissance bleue plus durable et competitivie dans l’Espace Atlantique

Project acronym: ACCESS2SEA

Project start date: 2019-03-01

Project end date: 2022-02-28

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 1 867 105.92

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 1 400 329.44

Co-financing sources:

ERDF: Amount, EUR 1 400 329.44.

Documents

Documents on this project are listed below, and organised by category. Please note field "Data source", attached to each document. Keep.eu users are free to use these documents as long as they mention the data source and keep.eu.

Reports

Access2Sea Capitalisation Report

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://access2sea.eu/pages/documents/#toggle-id-2

Publication date: 2023-02-17

Document date: 2018-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Access2sea methodology and indicators board

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://access2sea.eu/pages/documents/#toggle-id-3

Publication date: 2023-02-17

Document date: 2020-12-31

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

AQUACULTURE SPACE PLANNING BEST PRACTICES AND ASSSESSMENTOF THEIR TRANSFERABILITY

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://access2sea.eu/pages/documents/#toggle-id-3

Publication date: 2023-02-17

Document date: 2022-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Report of preperation, development and evluation of the social acceptance of aquaculture activities in the Atlantic Area

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://access2sea.eu/pages/documents/#toggle-id-4

Publication date: 2023-02-17

Document date: 2023-02-17

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

ACCESS2SEA Social Acceptance Strategy

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://access2sea.eu/pages/documents/#toggle-id-4

Publication date: 2023-02-17

Document date: 2022-02-11

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

REGULATORY AND LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORKS FOR LICENSING NEW AQUACULTURE FARMS (ONSHORE AND OFFSHORE) IN THE ATLANTIC AREA REGION

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://access2sea.eu/pages/documents/#toggle-id-5

Publication date: 2023-02-17

Document date: 2022-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Access2sea Business Models and Road Map

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://access2sea.eu/pages/documents/#toggle-id-5

Publication date: 2023-02-17

Document date: 2021-03-30

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

New Sustainable Aquaculture Techniques in the Atlantic Area Region

Attachment type: file

Type of document: Report

Data source: https://access2sea.eu/pages/documents/#toggle-id-5

Publication date: 2023-02-17

Document date: 2022-02-28

Languages: en

Attachment file: Download

Information regarding the data in keep.eu on the programme financing this project

Financing programme

2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB Atlantic Area

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2021-08-01

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

71 / 71 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

718 / 718 (100%)

Notes on the data

Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.atlanticarea.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-12-03, 2023-02-02 and 2024 01 30. Fields project name and description (from 23 projects) translated from Spanish into English using the European Commission's eTranslation machine translation service.

The projects which fields include an eTranslation English text are the ones with the following acronyms: @BluePortS, 4H-CREAT, ACCESS2SEA, AGEO, AGRITOX, ALERTOX-NET, AtlanticFoodExport, ATLANTIC-KET-MED, AT-VIRTUAL, AYCH, CABFishMAN, CircularSeas, COCKLES, CONSORTEX, FAN-BEST, iFADO, IN 4.0, JONAS, MONITOOL, NANOCULTURE, PROTOATLANTIC, SIRMA and USER-FACTOR.

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