Result description
Black Sea BEO Follows the framework of the European Blue Economy Observatory, a visualization dashboard to monitor the blue economy sectors per country, providing interactive visualizations on a set of sustainability indicators aiming at capturing the economic, environmental and social aspects of development in the region; ii) a sectors section, that provides detailed information on the current development of the Black Sea blue economy sectors; iii) a scenarios and roadmap section where scenarios developed under the BRIDGE-BS project will be displayed in a user-friendly way (under development at the time this report is published)
Addressing target audiences and expressing needs
- To raise awareness and possibly influence policy
- Grants and Subsidies
Support from Black Sea policymakers is needed to access and collect data, particularly in terms of sustainability indicators and work towards a harmonised monitoring framework for socio-economic data in each blue economy sector in the region. Private sector, academia and civil society need to use and enrich the tool by providing data and improving the functionalities and quality of data. The platform also needs financial streams for its daily operation but also to further develop its functionalities and increase its data collection, management, and visualization capabilities.
- Public or private funding institutions
- EU and Member State Policy-makers
- Research and Technology Organisations
R&D, Technology and Innovation aspects
Enriching the platform with more data and functionalities to seek support from policy-makers, the private sector, academia, and civil society

