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  • Blog
  • Marilou Suc

Collaboration, Technology, and the Blue Economy: Interview with Marilou Suc, Blue Connection

Digital tools are changing how the blue economy monitors, manages and protects the ocean, but technology only makes a difference when it solves a real problem and is within reach of the people expected to use it. Marilou Suc, founder of Blue Connection and host of the podcast BlueTech Around the World, has built her career on connecting the start-ups, companies, researchers and public actors who make that possible.
  • Blog, Event insights
  • Finn van der Aar

From fishing to marine tourism: Finn van der Aar on skills, marine tourism and pescaturismo

At the Bluedots Living Lab in Milan, Finn van der Aar presented an idea still in development: helping small-scale fishers diversify into sustainable marine wildlife tourism. Her starting point is that fishers already hold much of what the work requires, from knowledge of local waters and weather to seamanship, maritime heritage and the boats themselves. In this piece, she reflects on how those transferable skills could open new sources of income for Ireland’s inshore fishers, and on what she learned from the Italian tradition of pescaturismo.
  • Blog
  • Fabiana Pompermaier

Building the Right to Stay: Why Social Economy Matters for Rural Europe

For many rural communities across Europe, this is becoming one of the defining questions of the coming years. The decision to stay is shaped by whether a place can offer the conditions for a viable and fulfilling future: decent and meaningful work, affordable housing, access to essential services, opportunities to build a livelihood or start a business, a sense of belonging and participation, and confidence that future generations can continue to thrive there.  
  • Blog
  • Kristina Bayer,

Redirecting Capital for the Blue Economy: Lessons from the German Living Lab

In June, Bluedots partners and companies met in Kiel for the Living Lab and the Waterkant Festival. During these two days, our partners shifted the narrative from “how to attract more capital to the blue economy” to “what kind of capital, and in what direction.  The conversations kept going back to one insight: the money for ocean protection is not missing, but rather misallocated. 

Building Our Future Together

Europe is entering a decisive decade. Competitiveness, resilience, and prosperity are becoming central priorities, while the green and digital transitions, demographic change, and growing territorial inequalities are reshaping the economic landscape. Responding to these challenges requires economic models that combine innovation with inclusion and long-term sustainability.  For Diesis Network, responding to this new reality also requires evolution. It is in this context that the network’s new Board of Directors has been elected for the next four-year mandate. 
  • News, Blog, Event insights
  • Luca Pastorelli, Executive President

Strengthening Social Economy Networks: Diesis Joins European Commission Kick-Off Meeting

  • News
  • Diesis Network
On 16 June 2026, we participated in the European Commission’s kick-off meeting for EU networks funded under the ESF-2025-AG-MF-SE call for proposals. The event brought together European networks active in the fields of social economy, social enterprise finance and microfinance, alongside representatives of the European Commission, to discuss policy priorities, share planned activities and explore opportunities for stronger collaboration across Europe.

A New Vision for a Competitive and Sustainable Economy

Today, we launch our new website—an important milestone in consolidating our collective work and strengthening how we bring our shared vision into life as network.  At the core of this community are you, our members and partners: the knowledge, relationships, and capacity to act that drive everything we do. 
  • Blog
  • Luca Pastorelli, Executive President
  • Blog
  • Diesis Network

Cooperatives, Digital Transition, and the Blue Economy: Interview with Rosario Coronado, COCETA

In this interview, Rosario Coronado at COCETA, the Spanish Confederation of Worker-Owned Cooperatives, brings to the Bluedots project a deep grounding in cooperative governance, capacity development, and the practical realities of social economy enterprises navigating structural change.
Bluedots Open Call

Bluedots Open Call for Coaching and Mentoring Services

  • News
  • Diesis Network
Bluedots is launching an open call for coaching and mentoring services, offering social economy SMEs active in the blue economy a unique opportunity to access free, tailored professional support.
  • BLUEDOTS
  • BLUEDOTS

Digital Maturity, Technology Adoption and Innovation in the Blue Economy: Interview with Francisco Martínez Frutos

  • Blog
  • Diesis Network

Real Sustainability. Real Competitiveness. Diesis shaping the connection.

  • Event insights
  • Diesis Network

The Ubiquitous Blue: Opportunities for European SMEs Across Land and Sea

  • Blog
  • Diesis Network
When we talk about making our world sustainable, our minds often jump to images of lush green landscapes, wind turbines gracefully turning on hillsides, vast solar farms soaking up the sun’s energy in the desert, or baskets overflowing with organic produce at bustling local markets.
  • BLUEDOTS
  • Event insights
  • Diesis Network

Social Responsible Public Procurement and social economy: a central focus for policymakers

The role of Social Responsible Public Procurement (SRPP) as a strategic lever for social economy enterprises (SEEs) is a core theme for Diesis actions to facilitate access to market and promote sustainable and inclusive economic development.  
  • BLUEDOTS

Blue Economy: A Sustainable Opportunity from the Ocean, Seas, and Rivers

  • Blog
  • Diesis Network
  • Blog
  • Diesis Network

All included: the BUY SOCIAL platform- Driving impactful purchasing

Social procurement is reshaping how businesses approach purchasing decisions by integrating social impact goals alongside traditional financial objectives.

BUYSOCIAL – When two worlds meet

  • Blog
  • Diesis Network
More and more companies are taking an interest in responsibility, and what pleases most is that they are responsible not only on a marketing level, but also on a social level.

BUYSOCIAL – Why local second hand fashion is always a better option?

  • Blog
  • Diesis Network
When it comes to buying clothes, often, unfortunately, people tend to buy them new. The convenience of going to a store can be tempting. But at what cost? Not only does buying new typically cost you more money, but the environment is also paying a high price to produce those new items.
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  • Diesis Network

Discover the Lakes of Albania project

The project intends to promote innovative models of sustainable and responsible tourism in the areas relating to the two main lakes of Albania, in opposition to models of tourism and invasive development which are rapidly expanding throughout the Albanian territory.
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  • Diesis Network

Green Pymes Alliance: Diesis Network’s action in Latin America

Did you know about the presence of Diesis Network in Latin America? We are partners in the Green Pymes Alliance project, funded by AL INVEST Verde and led by the Chamber of Commerce of Bucaramanga, Colombia.

Study visit to a rooftop urban garden under GRAINS project

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  • Diesis Network