The University Camerino - given the current difficulties to carry out face-to-face meetings because of the COVID-19 outbreak - decided to organize a round of virtual thematic meetings with small groups of local stakeholders. The first one, carried out on the 4th of June, focused on the criticalities of the permitting procedures for Blue Energy installations. The meeting was attended by eight representatives of public authorities, enterprises and associations, and served to share the first findings of the COASTENERGY project, as well as to envisage procedural simplification strategies to promote the implementation of blue energy plants in the Marche region.