INTERSMARTS – DEPARTAMENTUL COOPERARE INTERNAȚIONALĂ

Title	Interdisciplinary Solutions for Smart Sustainable Tourism and Services for Blue Growth in the Black Sea Basin
Acronym	INTERSMARTS
Reference number	BSB00332
Implementation period	15.06.2024 – 14.12.2025
Budget	554.605,80 EUR
Partners	VARNA UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT Address: 13A, Oborishte str., Varna 9000, Severoztochen region (BG33), Bulgaria Represented by: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Todor RADEV (“the Lead Partner”) INTERNATIONAL HELLENIC UNIVERSITY – Special Accounts for Research Funds Address: 14 km Thessaloniki–N. Moudania, Thessaloniki 57001, Kentriki Makedonia (EL52), Greece (EL) Represented by: Prof. Stamatis ANGELOPOULOS (“the Partner no. 2”) MOLDOVA STATE UNIVERSITY – Faculty of Economic Sciences Address: 60, Alexei Mateevici, Chișinău MD-2009, Chișinău municipality (MD10), Moldova (MD) Represented by: Prof. Igor SAROV (“the Partner no. 3”) ISTANBUL KALKINMA AJANSI (ISTANBUL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY) Address: 14Z, Asmalı Mescit Mah. Istiklal Caddesi, Beyoglu Istanbul 34430, Istanbul (TR10), Türkiye (TR) Represented by: Dr. Ziya TASKENT
Description	Sustainable tourism is an integral element in blue growth due to its potential to contribute to economic development while preserving the integrity and resilience of marine and coastal ecosystems. Innovation plays a crucial role in driving sustainable tourism and blue growth. However, tourism and related services in the Black Sea Basin are still considered knowledge- and technology non-intensive, which entails economic but also environmental and social losses. Black Sea tourism is troubled by overdevelopment, pollution and waste, seasonality and ineffective transfer of knowledge to novel business and practical solutions. This decreases the added value of the sector and makes its improvement over-vulnerable to various global shocks. The regional challenges can be overcome with novel context-relevant solutions based on crossfertilization of state-of-art social, natural and engineering knowledge and expertise and via raising the innovation absorption and technology take-up in tourism. The rationale is that the stakeholders should innovate locally, in order to use the maritime resources effectively for all economic activities and to protect the marine life and environment.
Institutional coordinator	Maria Hămuraru, PhD, Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Moldova State University (MSU) maria.hamuraru@usm.md
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