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BlueActionBANOS

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Empowering sustainable transitions for Baltic and North Sea blue communities

BlueActionBANOS is a Horizon Europe project that supports blue actors and initiatives in local communities around the Baltic and North Seas. The aim is to restore our seas and waters while strengthening a circular and sustainable blue economy.

How BlueActionBANOS supports stakeholders

  • Targeted funding support - 5 large-scale community-driven interventions (€200,000-2 million) and 20 transition agendas (up to €100,000).
  • Tailored technical support - mentoring, experience sharing and best practices from across the Mission Ocean ecosystem.
  • Strategic knowledge sharing - through platforms such as BlueBioMatch and through transnational cooperation.

Next steps in Mission Ocean

BlueActionBANOS (BAB) takes Mission Ocean further - from pilot projects to large-scale solutions. The project builds on the experience of the four-year initiative BlueMissionBANOS and takes the next step by creating more opportunities for local actors around the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to go from idea to real results.

The goal is clear: to work together to create innovative interventions that help restore our oceans and waters - and build a sustainable blue future.

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About the project

BlueActionBANOS is supported by 18 partners from Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Poland.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us: 

Sonja Andrén, Innovatum
sonja.andren@innovatum.se

Martin Sjöberg, IVL
martin.sjoberg@ivl.se

Jane Ihrfors, IVL
jane.ihrfors@ivl.se

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Facts about the project

Project period: Sept 2025-August 2028
Funders: EU Horizon (HORIZON-MISS-2024-OCEAN-02-01 - Community-Led Actions to Restore Our Ocean, Seas and Waters)
Project leader: SUBMARINER Network for Blue Growth EEIG (SUB) DE
Partners:
FundingBox Accelerator (FBA) PL, FundingBox Communities (FBC) - Affiliated entity SP, VLAAMS INSTITUUT VOOR DE ZEE (VLIZ) BE, Innovatum Science Park, University of Southern Denmark (SDU) DK, Food & Bio Cluster Denmark (FBCD) DK, Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) FI, Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL) SE, Latvian Institute for Ecology (LHEI) LV, Gdynia Maritime University (GMU) PL, University of Tartu (UTartu) EE, Klaipeda University (KU) LT, Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) NO, Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO) NL, Blauwe Cluster (BC) BE, Union of the Baltic Cities (UBC) FI, European Regions Research and Innovation Network ASBL (ERRIN) BE, Christian Albrecht University (CAU) DE

Funded by

Sonja Andrén, Innovatum Science Park

Sonja Andrén

Innovation Leader Blue Bioeconomy
sonja.andren@innovatum.se
0520-28 93 65