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The city of Mataro aspires to open the city to the sea.  The Municipality’s original goals were to promote the blue economy and stimulate new businesses. The foundations for this project were laid in

The Municipality built a strong URBACT Local Group, comprising members from Universities, the River Authority, NGO’s, public bodies and port-based businesses.

Burgas were keen to try and use the competition to try to find an innovative idea for a product/service and support entrepreneurs to turn that into a viable business idea.

Business Plan Competitions are essentially a contest where business plans, submitted by aspiring entrepreneurs, are compared, and judged, according to a set of criteria published prior to the launch

Necessity has been the mother of invention for a number of European cities, who, faced with Covid-19 restrictions, have had to adopt a range of innovative approaches to delivering online

Business Plan competitions are just one way of generating new business ideas within a city and supporting the entrepreneurs to start-up in business. For port cities, or cities with a strong heritage

Galati used processes and methodologies advocated by URBACT to establish a Local Group to steer their work on creating an effective start-up community and used a process of participatory design, to

Faced with the challenge of needing to organise a Blue Growth Entrepreneurship Programme, the city of Salerno, in Italy, cleverly opted to piggyback off the back of an existing entrepreneurship

Two European cities that are part of a network that aims to stimulate Blue Growth Entrepreneurship (growth linked to the Marine & Maritime Economy) have secured commercial sponsorship to offer prizes