BluAct 2nd wave URBACT network final event! Day 1 started with welcoming speeches from the vice mayor of Piraeus Dimitris Karidis, the head of URBACT Teofil Gherca, our coordinator Theoni Panteli and our Lead Expert Jim Sims. Following: workshops and preparations for tomorrow!

Workshop on ULG Development Plan fort the 4 cities and a future business model canvas! URBACT Local Groups was by far the best part of this journey, and the cities wish to maintain them!

Today, BluAct partners are working together for their future ❤🌊 #URBACTGRTrends URBACT

Workshop: Preparing to pitch your transfer Story! Led by Dimitris Vitzilaios. Final steps of the partner's preparation to present their transfer stories. Watch the presentations online tomorrow at 9.00

A boat trip around Piraeus coastal line with highlights about the city's history! #WeAreBlue

VIDEO 📹 The vice mayor of Piraeus Municipality, Dimitris Karidis, talks about the 1st day of the BluAct URBACT Final Event: youtu.be/zJotx6nxkhI

Some more #storytelling take-aways from BluAct Day1️⃣ 📌Animate your audience, not your slides 📌The hero of the story is YOU 📌Your story should have 3 parts: 1️⃣Initial state (the old world) 2️⃣Adventure (the journey) 3️⃣Final state (the new world)

#WeAreSoooBlue

BluAct URBACT Final Event DAY 2 Watch online at bluact.eu/piraeus

Our partners from Boulogne-sur-Mer presenting their Transfer Story! #URBACTis progress!

Inkubator Starter from Gdansk, Poland presenting their Transfer Story during the 2nd Day of the Final Event of BluAct URBACT in Piraeus!

RRC KOPER from Slovenia presenting their Transfer Story and the impact of URBACT in their local work on Blue Economy!

Piraeus honors the "poet of the sea", Nikos Kavvadias, and shares his poems (put to music) with the BluAct #URBACT partners from port-cities all over Europe!

Fireside Chat with the BluAct experts! Former and current project managers of BluAct URBACT for the last 4 years talking about their experience and their thoughts on what will stay back to Piraeus for the future!

Multi-ULG meeting in Piraeus, Greece. Our Lead Expert, Jim Sims, is leading a world-Cafe-style workshop "Opportunities to further develop the Blue Economy in Europe".

It was an amazing trip! We learned a lot from each other and now we are more ready to bring sustainable solutions to our cities! Last day of BluAct! Today we said goodbye to our good partners and friends, but we are all sure that we will meet again! #WeAreBlue 💙 URBACT 🇪🇺

BluAct is (not) over! Check our newsletter shoutout.wix.com/so/01OK62e75 Stay tuned! Stay Blue! Stay URBACT

BluAct URBACT 2nd wave coordination meeting!

Meeting with old and new partners at URBACT IV info day in Athens, organised by URBACT GR-CY #URBACTis cities!

The 8th "Blue Growth Piraeus" Innovation Competition for the Blue Economy is organized by the Municipality of Piraeus, the University of Piraeus and StartUPiraeus, with the support of the city's marinescape. Visit bluegrowthpiraeus.gr/en for more info!