Our focus areas

Within the broad spectrum of blue economy, Blue Cluster focuses on the following areas:

Blue Cluster shows new ways of coastal protection: resilient and sustainable, based on, and integrated in, nature.

Blue Cluster develops technologies to generate and store energy with minimal negative impact on both people and planet.

Blue Cluster seeks to improve the possibilities for sea and inland shipping and works toward clean shipping.

The Blue Cluster focuses on efficient and sustainable fisheries & aquaculture and explores the potential of marine resources.

Together with other blue economic activities, the Blue Cluster creates a sustainable offer of educational and ecological tourism.

Blue Cluster helps to find creative and adequate answers to complex problems such as 'plastic soup' and the leaking of toxic substances into the sea.

Blue Cluster puts ecological, economic ánd social objectives on its agenda for blue growth.

Blue Cluster is always on the lookout for applications of digitisation and other smart technologies at sea.