Atlantic team effort supports innovation
The UK’s Liverpool John Moores University has joined forces with Mersey Maritime and Norway’s Vestfold University to encourage maritime innovation, research and higher skills in the Atlantic region.
In an EU-funded workshop led recently by the partners, which is the first in a series designed to support delivery of the Atlantic Action Plan, they highlighted the importance of business clusters in economic development and the importance of projects which supported growth and jobs particularly in the SME sector.
The Action Plan, led by the Directorate-General for Maritime Policy, Ministry of Agriculture and Sea in partnership with DG MARE/European Commission, intends to create jobs and growth in the regions of the five countries bordering the Atlantic (UK, Ireland, France, Portugal and Spain) and covers three themes: investment in innovation in SMEs, research and skills.
The team plan to hold a follow-up workshop in March to move the project forward.
By Rachael Doyle
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