Advancing Black Sea Research and Innovation for Sustainable Blue Economy

BRIDGE-BS was a Horizon 2020 project that advanced the Black Sea’s marine research and innovation capacity in order to co-develop blue economy pathways under multiple stressors for the sustainable use of ecosystem services. It developed an ecosystem-based management framework to enable policy uptake and foster citizen engagement. The project ran from June 2021 to November 2025. This policy brief is a summary of key policy-relevant outputs from the project and includes policy and scientific recommendations for a sustainable blue economy in the Black Sea.