Jan. 2 – “Blue Growth: unlocking the potential of oceans and seas” is a project on the economy of the sea that University of Palermo researchers in the Departments of Economics, Business and Statistics and of Earth and Sea Sciences will tackle within the project “Success” approved by the European Commission in the Horizon call on “Blue Growth.” The leader of the project – which includes a consortium of 24 partners including universities, associations and businesses across Europe – is the University of Western Brittany. The project is funded by a total of about €5 million. The scientific director of the project on behalf of the University of Palermo is Professor Gioacchino Fazio, who leads a multidisciplinary team with different profiles and research expertise active on several fronts. “For us, this represents a milestone in our growth as a group: we’ve worked hard and we’re very happy to be able to achieve this important result,” said the Professor, “for the next three years, our work will see us involved, along with the other partners, in trying to contribute to an industry that, at the European level, presents significant territorial peculiarities and is an a deep economic crisis.” (red)
