Alesund: Local Innovation Systems
Converting waste fishing nets into products
25th April 2019
10.00 – 13.00
NTNU
Alesund
Norway
Audience
Stakeholders from the local innovation community/systems and fishing community/ networks in Alesund, Norway and other interested parties from outside Alesund.
Objectives
To present and discuss
Workshop leaders
Professor Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design ®, University for the Creative Arts
Dr Richard Glavee-Geo, NNTU
Programme
10.00 Presentation
10.15 Local Alesund Systems: Discussion over the local innovation ecosystem and local fishing community/networks in Alesund e.g. who are the stakeholders, what is the experience, what works, what doesn’t work, what are the issues, etc
11.00 BCE_Lab Concept: an innovation lab focused on converting waste FNRCPs into products
11.15 Coffee & networking
11.30 Work groups to consider the issues related to the development of a business model for a BCE_Lab in Alesund
12.20 Presentations (3 minute pitches by each group)
12.40 Discussion
13.00 Close
Organisation
The workshop is organised by NNTU and The Centre for Sustainable Design® at UCA as part of the Blue Circular Economy project which is funded by Northern Periphery & Arctic Programme (European Regional Development Fund) that is being organised between 2018-2021.
Registration
The workshop is free. To book your place email Ros on rcarruthers@uca.ac.uk
More information
Ros Carruthers
The Centre for Sustainable Design ®
UCA
+44 (0) 1252 892772
Blue Circular Economy is funded by Northern Periphery & Arctic Programme (European Regional Development Fund) that is being organised between 2018-2021.
