The SUBMARINER Network

Working together to improve the 
Baltic Sea environment and economies

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We are your guide in the world of Baltic Blue Bioeconomy & beyond

The SUBMARINER Network is a unique platform that brings actors from the whole Baltic Sea Region together to actively promote innovative and sustainable uses of marine resources. It operates across the whole knowledge triangle integrating perspectives from local to international scale, different science disciplines as well as policy and economic stakeholders.

Key facts about SUBMARINER

  • The network is a hub for projects, initiatives and activities at all levels. Taking offset in the SUBMARINER Roadmap, it encompasses transnational and cross-border regional development, innovation and research projects, as well as the various initiatives at local and business level. Via meetings, workshops, conferences and a comprehensive set of dissemination tools, network membersare provided with a continuous platform for communication, exchanges of experience, joint project development and implementation.

  • As a flagship project under the priority area “Innovation” of the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region (EUSBSR), the SUBMARINER Network represents the blue economy at this macro-regional level. In this capacity it also regularly issues joint position papers and contributes to the further development of the EUSBSR.

  • While its roots lie in the Baltic Sea Region, the SUBMARINER Network also reaches out beyond its geographical base to engage in partnerships with actors that share its thematic vision across Europe, inter alia as a member of the European Centre for Information on Marine Science and Technology, EurOcean. As such, it functions as the bridge between the Baltic Sea Region and the rest of the EU.

  • The SUBMARINER Network is registered as a not-for-profit European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG) and is managed by a professional secretariat.

What do our members say?

  • Steffen Lüsse, Ministry of Economic Affairs Schleswig-Holstein (Germany)

  • Joanna Przedrzymirska, Maritime Institute in Gdańsk (Poland)

  • Fredrik Gröndahl, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)

  • Gudrun Mernitz, BioCon Valley Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V. (Germany)

  • Carsten Beyer, s.Pro – sustainable projects

  • Linda Lingsten, Swedish Agency for Marine and Water Management

    Our members represent research institutions, public administrations, business parks and private consulting from all shores of the Baltic Sea.

    Ministry of Economic Affairs Schleswig-Holstein
    The Maritime Institute in Gdańsk
    BioCon Valley Mecklenburg-Vorpommern e.V.
    Coastal Research and Planning Institute
    Danish Technological Institute
    GEOMAR
    Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
    s.Pro – sustainable projects
    Baltic Probiotics
    Klaipeda Science and Technology Park
    Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology
    National Marine Fisheries Research Institute
    Pomorskie in the European Union Association
    Region Skåne
    Region Östergötland
    Riga Planning Region
    Scottish Association for Marine Science
    Tartu Biotechnology Park
    University of Gdansk
    University of Tartu, Estonian Marine Institute
    The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
    Guldborgsund Municipality (GBS)
    University of Southern Denmark (SDU)
    Blue Center Gotland (BCG)
    The Association of Local Authorities of Ida-Viru County (IVOL)
    Kalmarsundskommissionen
    University of Gothenburg
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    Metal production
    IVL Swedish environment institute
    Forschungs- und Entwicklungszentrum Fachhochschule Kiel GmbH
    Kiel Marine Science

    Our vision

    A Smart Baltic Sea Region – Making use of blue-green combined solutions

    A Smart Baltic Sea Region – Making use
    of blue-green combined solutions

    The BSR becomes a model EU region on conscious sea use combination, shaping its unique EU brand in this field. Smart combinations refers to integrated concepts where multiple products (e.g. biogas, fertilisers, seafood, high-value products) and services (e.g. nutrient harvesting, carbon sequestration, clean beaches) are delivered from the same space.
    Maintaining the Baltic Sea Regions’s natural capital

    Maintaining the Baltic Sea Regions’s natural capital

    The natural capital of the Baltic Sea Region is maintained and able to offer a broad range of ecosystem services in line with the sustainable development paradigm and the HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) and the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) spirit. This is made possible by a more widespread conscious use of the sea resources to that end.
    Marine resources as part of the BSR sustainable energy and biomass portfolio

    Marine resources as part of the
    BSR sustainable energy and biomass portfolio

    The BSR becomes an important place for smart production of renewable energy and sustainable biomass including marine resources in order to meet EU targets and mitigate climate change. Such production enhances the security of the energy supply and attracts new industries and businesses to the coastal municipalities.
    Improve human well-being via new marine products

    Improve human well-being via new marine products

    Blue biobased products, such as new medicines and healthy food, contribute to human health and well-being in the BSR. Also the biobased economy creates new jobs and thus improves employment opportunities in the coastal states and regions.
    The Baltic Sea Region – a biobased innovation showcase

    The Baltic Sea Region –
    a biobased innovation showcase

    Biobased economy offers one of the highest innovation potential and high value product potentials. System innovations make best use of already available knowledge and technologies from related sectors such as forestry, offshore wind as well as other biotech industries. In 2030, the BSR becomes an important EU biobased innovation and model hub specialised in biobased technologies.

    Hi! My name is Efthalia Arvaniti and I look forward to helping you unlock the full potential of your organisation.

    Contact Me
    ea(at)submariner-network.eu
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