The online event was organised by BLUEAIR, a project financed by the Interreg ADRION 2021-2027 Programme that has Area Science Park as the lead partner and involves 31 partners from the Adriatic-Ionian countries with the aim of promoting a common strategy of smart specialisation focused on Blue Growth in this area.

InCE - Central European Initiative and Maritime Technology Cluster FVG and OGS - National Institute of Oceanography and Experimental Geophysics representatives presented their projects, while the Central Directorate for Labour, Training, Education and Family of the FVG Region concluded the event with a presentation focused on the Intelligent and Sustainable Specialisation Strategy of Friuli Venezia Giulia with a special focus on Blue Growth.

The cross-fertilization workshop identified the most important challenges for sustainable blue growth represented mainly by the high costs associated with the necessary technological development. In this framework PNAEAS presented the main contents of the project and preliminary outputs of PROMARES: the development of ICT solutions to improve the quality, safety and environmental sustainability of maritime transport in ports and logistic nodes is one of the points in common with Blue Growth principles.