Ongoing projects

The Atlantic Cities association is a partner of the European project WINBLUE, alongside its members, Gijón City Council (Spain) and the La Rochelle agglomeration (France), which are in turn partners associated with this project co-financed by the European Union through the EMFAF programme. 

The full name of the project is “Empowering Women and Mainstreaming Gender Equality in the Blue Economy”. WINBLUE aims to accelerate women’s empowerment in the blue economy by facilitating their participation in five sectors: the circular economy of the blue bioeconomy and biotechnology, aquaculture and fisheries, renewable offshore energy, sustainable coastal tourism, and cutting-edge technologies to protect and restore marine ecosystems. 

The project will launch five WINBLUE labs to involve stakeholders in the co-design and implementation of gender equality plan templates, to design and validate training and coaching programmes for women, to set up a data collection and monitoring strategy in order to assess and monitor the evolution of gender inclusion in the blue economy, and to identify and evaluate replicable best practices. 

The Atlantic Cities’ role in the project is to contribute to the identification of good practices using the expertise of its members and its network of associates, and also to capitalise and publicise the results of the project. Atlantic Cities also supports its members Gijón and La Rochelle in the co-creation of WINBLUE laboratories and the implementation of training activities. 

Gender equality is a priority for the Atlantic Cities association, which has implemented an internal She4Sea project to promote professional female careers in the blue economy. 

This project will be implemented from May 2023 to May 2025 with a total budget of 1,249,891.19 euros. 

We will publish regular updates in connection with this project, and you have further information available on the official web page or the project’s social networks: Linkedin, Twitter or Instagram.