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The blue economy and innovation focus the meeting between Zona Franca and the marine marine cluster of Andalusia

The link between the two entities is reinforced with an agenda of joint activities for this year that include the celebration of the Executive Committee of the Cluster in the Free Zone of Cádiz this June this month

The delegate of the Consortium, Fran González, accompanied by the Director of Business Promotion and the Incubazul coordinator have visited the CMMA facilities

The cluster has publicly recognized the work done by the Consortium in the field of the Blue Economy and awarded the 2023 Proa Prize

The State Delegate in the Free Zone of Cádiz, Fran González, accompanied by the Director of Business Promotion and Foreign Trade, Marta Domínguez, and the coordinator of Incubazul, José Manuel Fedriani, have held a work meeting in Malaga today a working meeting with the president of the maritime maritime cluster of Andalusia (CMMA), Javier Noriega, Javier Noriega, the manager of the entity Recuna, and the Director of International Projects, Elizabeth Domínguez.

The meeting has served to look for more points in common and analyze an agenda of joint activities for the second half of this year, and successive semesters, as well as set a meeting with the Executive Committee of the Cluster that will be held at the facilities of the Free Zone of Cádiz in June.

During the meeting, both entities have agreed to strengthen their relationship, taking into account that the CMMA consists of innovative Andalusian companies of different maritime subsectors and with a common vision: the blue economy. This was precisely and innovation one of the central themes of the conversation, in which the work of both organizations in these sectors have analyzed in depth.

Fran González has detailed the activity of the Free Zone of Cádiz in the framework of the blue economy with the projects of its startup incubator, Incubazul, and the most incipient, the ZF Blue Core, the nursery of companies 4.0, also co -financed as incubazul by Feder funds.

The Cadiz incubator and the ecosystem created around it has already received different recognitions, one of which has been precisely the 2023 Proa Prize awarded by the marine marine cluster of Andalusia, which rewarded Incubazul for its great work as an institution, its trajectory and contribution to the blue entrepreneurship in Andalusia. The PROA awards recognize the contribution of institutions, companies, entities and people in the promotion, development, growth and knowledge of the blue economy in Andalusia, as well as the humanitarian, research, technological, cultural, innovative and sustainable work in the maritime-marine field of our community.

The representation of the Free Zone of Cádiz has taken advantage of its presence in the capital of Malaga to know on-site The facilities of the marine maritime cluster of Andalusia in the building The Green Ray of the Louis Pasteur Boulevard of Malaga.

Fran González stressed that "joint work and alliances between private institutions and entities enrich and greatly reinforce the ecosystem and make it more solid, especially entities such as the Andalusia cluster with an experience and work as important as the one they do in the blue sector." The Consortium delegate has also insisted on the importance that in a province like Cádiz, historically linked to maritime activity, "we have turned our eyes back to the sea but with other eyes, with the eyes of respect and commitment to the environment but looking at the future, an innovative future based on technology and sustainability."