A North Atlantic Marine Clusters Alliance (NAMCA) / North Atlantic Regions Countries (NARC)

A North Atlantic Marine Clusters Alliance (NAMCA) / North Atlantic Regions Countries (NARC)

Maritime Development Center of Europe was attending a meeting to day in Reykjavik, Iceland, invited by the Iceland Ocean Cluster and partners in the North Atlantic Marine Cluster project.

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This was a fruitful meeting with open minded debate and discussions about the possibilities, challenges, opportunities in business development, R&D, new technology, best practice, bench marking and sharing of knowledge and know-how. The cluster managers agreed that the potential for growth and job creations is great, if we manage to build on existing strength at each Marine/Maritime Cluster and further develop new business opportunities, not yet discovered.

Areas discussed and identified for further evaluations:

• New innovative products
• Transport and Logistic – new shipping routes not yet discovered.
• R&D in creating sustainable development of processing of seafood and other recourses from the ocean
• Marketing the North Atlantic Seafood as one brand.
• Think-tank – Young People in the North Atlantic Countries – New business not yet discovered.
• Competence and education development
• Mapping and benchmarking strength and opportunities
• Agriculture in the North Atlantic Ocean.
• Oil, minerals, offshore wind, wave energy.

The North Atlantic Marine Cluster Alliance will meet again in the autumn of 2012. The agenda will also contain R&D, B2B meetings and the start for creation a North Atlantic Marine Cluster of Excellence.

At the picture: The cluster managers from: Island, Greenland, Faroe Islands, Canada, Norway and Denmark.

2012-05-31 12:30:00