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CALL FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST 

Chrysalis LEAP announces the Call for Solutions for the TRAIN (TRAnsformative INnovation) Labs in Cyprus, as part of the Blue Ecosystem project, aiming to identify innovative solutions that address key challenges faced by Cyprus in the sectors of Water Scarcity and Water Management.

About the Call:

This call aims to attract solutions, ideas, and innovative proposals shared by stakeholders active in the Blue Economy sectors, capable of responding to the identified challenges.

Proposed solutions may include services, feasibility plans, studies, analyses, legislative proposals, or collaborative initiatives.

Solutions should address the challenges faced in the sectors of Water Scarcity and Water Management.

Why Apply?

The selected solutions will be invited to a two-day co-creation workshop, where participants will work in groups and collaborate directly with key stakeholders from the Blue Economy sector (academics, researchers, industry experts, entrepreneurs, local authorities, and government representatives) to develop innovative ideas and solutions, co-develop legislative proposals, and explore practical, cross-sectoral approaches to help address the identified challenge of water scarcity in Cyprus.

Eligibility criteria:

The call is open to all public and private entities, as well as individuals, with an active involvement in business, or research and innovation, in the field of the Blue Economy focusing on Water Scarcity and Water Management.

How to Apply:

Interested start-ups should submit the following application form: https://shorturl.at/nmYDf

Selection Process:

The expected solutions should not be fully structured or funded projects, but rather proposals to be developed, capable of generating impact, fostering innovation, and enabling collaboration between public and private actors.

Application Deadline: 31/07/2025

More information

For more information contact us at [email protected].

Responsibility and Confidentiality:

Each applicant is solely responsible for the completeness, accuracy, and truthfulness of the data and information provided in the application materials and documentation. Chrysalis LEAP assumes no responsibility for the content submitted, nor for any inaccuracies, omissions, or violations of third-party rights. All information and content provided in the application form, as well as any data or materials concerning the submitted solutions and shared during the organization and implementation of the programme, shall be considered public and available to the Blue Economy Community.

Data Protection Notice (EU Regulation 2016/679):

In accordance with Articles 13 and 14 of EU Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR), Chrysalis LEAP, informs applicants that their personal data, collected as part of project-related activities, will be processed in compliance with the principles of lawfulness, fairness, transparency, and confidentiality, in full respect of the applicable data protection legislation.

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About the Project: 

BLUE ECOSYSTEM will test innovative methodologies focused on supporting territory decision-making processes through knowledge production in the blue sustainable economy field, building on existing results. 

The project considers the needs of the quintuple helix stakeholders to enhance innovation and research capacities through a transformative and territorial co-creation approach with the setting of regional accelerator laboratories (the so-called TRAIN labs) in the Balearic Islands, Emilia-Romagna, Région Sud-Occitanie, Zadar County, Alentejo, Attica, Albania and Cyprus.

A subsequent match process at Mediterranean level will identify transnational challenges and opportunities for the solution acceleration.

Blue Ecosystem is a 33-month Interreg Euro-MED project, co-funded under the Programme’s mission “Strengthening an innovative sustainable economy,” with a budget of nearly 3 million euros.

Learn more: https://blueecosystem.interreg-euro-med.eu/