A Summer School dedicated to enhance skills on blue entrepreneurship, held just before the Lisbon United Nations Ocean Conference 2022. It is promoted by the H2020 PORTWIMS Project, supported by three highly prestigious institutions for marine research, technology transfer and blue entrepreneurship: the Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre (Portugal), the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK) and the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (Germany). The PORTWIMS Summer School counts also with the participations of keynote speakers from most relevant stakeholders in blue economy, from Venture Capital to intellectual property rights and case studies of technology transfer. The PORTWIMS Summer School counts also with institutional support of the Direção Geral de Política do Mar - General Directorate of Marine Policy and the Lisbon University.
The PORTWIMS project - Portugal Twinning for innovation and excellence in marine science and Earth observation, is an H2020 Twinning project involving the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon University (MARE Centre) in Portugal, the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) in Germany and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the United Kingdom (PML).
The aim of PORTIWMS project is to enhance the marine science, technology and innovation, particularly focusing on technology transfer, stimulating startups and spinoffs and highly qualified jobs. This goal is to be achieved by dedicated initiatives, namely through summer schools which is now launched.
