4helix+ is funded under the Interreg MED Programme. It aims at stimulating, coaching and funding creative innovation within the blue economy in the Mediterranean (MED) area, by improving the gap between the 8 Mediterranean regional maritime clusters and within their four helixes, through an open source, knowledge-sharing, and community-based approach.
The project will award innovation vouchers of 480.000 EUR to 48 selected blue MED MSMEs and Start-Ups for implementing their own creative innovation project under the expert guidance of Knowledge Providers (i.e. Cultural and Creative Industries and ‘new innovation agents’) accredited through 4helix+. A cyberspace, boot camps, transnational brokerage event, and regional info days will be organised within the project for matching between companies and innovation experts.
With its transnational partnership network and objectives, 4helix+ contributes to relevant EU macro-regional strategies and innovation policies.
The CEI - Executive Secretariat is leading the project’s communication activities (WP Communication).
Lead Partner
- SVIM - Sviluppo Marche S.P.A. (Italy)
Partners
- University of Camerino (Italy)
- Central European Initiative (Italy)
- Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Greece)
- Croatian Chamber of Economy (Croatia)
- Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Shipping of Seville (Spain)
- XXI Dinamic Network (Portugal)
- Albanian Development Fund (Albania)
- Barcelona Official Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Services and Navigation (Spain)
- Chamber of Commerce and Industry Marseille Provence (France)