Social Innovation. Blue Growth through Cooperation and Solidarity

With sustainability as its core value, the Cooperative has been developed as a model to build local knowledge, local capacity and local leadership through collaboration and partnership with global partners. Considering the standard definitions of sustainability, integrating social, economic and environmental factors the Cooperative set out to create something that would last and build on the region’s resources. Adopting a holistic approach, the Cooperative has concentrated on developing education at all levels (university, college, adult education, high school and elementary), development of partner networks (provincial, nationally and internationally), integration and development of business clusters, and a view of looking at local assets and instead of limitations for development of resources and infrastructures.