The BLACK SEA CRUISE Project aims to analyse the state of play and environmental and socio-economic potential for novel small-scale cruising/yachting models, in order to support, through a final set of recommendations, the sustainable development of the activity in the Black Sea region. 

The Project engages in structured dialogue with a target group of local and regional stakeholders (i.e. policy makers, universities and naval/maritime academies, associations of ports, business operators of cruise companies, ferries and yachts, tourism associations) to explore concrete business opportunities in the region and to identify funding avenues and support actions for promoting such models.

The three main groups of activities are being pursued, related to:

• providing regional dimension and specificities (trends, needs, potentials) of cruising/yachting offer, incl. in terms of skills mobility and skills matching, in the Black Sea and comparing it with other EU shared sea basins;
• table for discussion at the “public-private” dialogue workshop;
• highlighting good practices and challenges to enrich the debate on small-scale cruising and yachting with a view to inform the governments of businesses’ needs and what best practices and actions to adopt to untap their potential-taking into consideration the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sectors and shed light on the opportunities resulting from the European Green Deal.

Description of activities

• Preliminary (desk-based) analysis.
• Consultations from public authorities and private market participants through technical national workshops.
• Publication of a final analysis and a set of recommendations.
• Final Regional Conference to present the results and set the basis for follow-up actions.

Core Partners

• ICBSS - International Centre for Black Sea Studies
• SML - Strategies Mer et Littoral
• CLIMAZUL

Project duration

January 2021 – December 2022

Presentation:

Presented at the Final Conference: "Strengthening the project implementation capacity, dialogue and cooperation in the Black Sea Region" (23 November 2022, Athens)

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The Project is co-funded by the European Commission under Grant Contract ENI/2020/421-957.