The CLASS 4.0 project (approved under the capitalization tender of the Interreg Italy – Croatia 2014 – 2022 Program – Priority Axis “Blue Innovation”), aims to improve the framework conditions for cross-border innovation by maximizing and enhancing the experiences and results obtained from the implementation of projects previously financed under the same priority axis such as INVESTINFISH, BEAT, and BLUE KEP.

Specifically, the project has the following objectives:

• Implement the cross-border network to capitalize on data solutions of the blue economy, improving the ability to adopt innovative solutions through better coordination, integrating the results of projects previously funded by the Interreg Italy – Croatia 2014 – 2020 Programme, networks of excellence and promoting support services based on methodological models of “open innovation” and technology transfer,
• Promote investment in technology transfer and innovation services among blue economy enterprises, promote services to support innovation investment for blue economy enterprises and for new entrepreneurial development, in order to provide concrete support in the evaluation of the marketability of the new solutions and its potential market positioning Provide in-depth services to help develop the business model and further create start-ups and spin-offs,
• Improve the framework conditions for increasing collaboration and networking based on the 5-helix: Joint actions aimed at improving the framework conditions for enhancing collaboration and networking and consolidating the Adriatic as an innovation ecosystem in the blue economy through the organization of Think Tank C2C and the signing of a memorandum of understanding on transnational cooperation.

Type of service

Informest as project partner will take care, as part of the activities related to the technical issue “Clustering thematic activities”, to support the implementation of the mapping and identification analyzes of the Key Exploitable Results (KER) starting from the three capitalized projects (in charge for BLUE KEP) and will contribute in a practical way, with the collaboration of MareFVG and IDA to the realization of a participation activity carried out by schools together with companies that simulates a real creative innovation process, and the drafting of a related document of good practices of the method to be disseminated to others secondary institutes.