Barcelona Maritime Technology Park
Civil society has embraced the scientific community’s message of “Our ocean, our future, our responsibility” (Lisbon Declaration, UN 2022), which calls for science-based innovative projects aimed at mitigating the ocean emergency.
It is necessary to pursue the development of research infrastructure, with knowledge transfer, via public investment.
The construction of the Barcelona Maritime Technology Park (PTMB) is a public strategic project with a global commitment that will make Barcelona a leading city in this field, with technological and educational facilities that are one of their kind in the Mediterranean area and comparable to only a few others in Europe, meeting a strong international demand for services to help provide solutions for the challenges of global change.
Barcelona, a leading city in the analysis and detection of opportunities for advancement, is a global leader in entrepreneurship, science and innovation ecosystems, the cornerstones of the city’s socio-economic progress.
The success of these initiatives, which have a social return, is associated with an industrial-economic ecosystem involved in the major technological transformations, the promotion of the integrated R&D+I ecosystem, which involves knowledge transfer to the business sector, and shared public-private responsibility for initiatives.
The initiative is part of the 2018-2028 Strategic Coastal Plan and the municipal blue-economy promotional strategy, and is also one of the main projects in the Blue District Programme, part of the Barcelona Port Authority’s 2021-2024 Innovation Plan. It is also part of the Spanish government’s Recuperation, Transformation and Resilience Plan.
The land concerned is allocated for the construction of a maritime technology facility for developing its potential, with innovative activities as a vector for job creation and socio-economic progress, making a significant contribution to the sustainability of the business and production ecosystem.
The City Council led the planning of the facility, as a unique collaborative infrastructure project of, in order to address a growing market demand that has not been met in the Mediterranean region, employing a model that combines public and private assets in a collaborative effort.
What are we doing?
And as part of the Government Measure for Promoting the Blue Economy, the Barcelona Maritime Technology Park is currently under construction.
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The agreements with the Government of Catalonia, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, the Port of Barcelona, Barcelona Nautical Capital Foundation and the Spanish government will soon be ratified, via protocols which will result in official collaboration agreements, in order to provide resources and commitments for funding and comprehensive management.
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El projecte bàsic de l’edifici, amb definició constructiva, defineix la formació d’espais adequats a les necessitats observades i la distribució d’usos de manera col·laborativa entre les entitats que han d’operar les instal·lacions d’aquest model de concentrador d’innovació i emprenedoria
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El Pla de finançament, el Pla de negoci i el Model de gestió (governança) determinen com s’ha de materialitzar la viabilitat de la inversió pública amb un retorn econòmic i social òptim
