MISTRA C2B2 - Co-Creating Better Blue

C2B2 aims to bring about transformative change through participatory governance supported by relevant and insightful data and knowledge by re-imagining the role of quintuple helix actors across the blue economy in Sweden in processes ‘from data to knowledge to decisions and action’.

C2B2 is a research programme funded by Mistra (Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research) and hosted by the University of Gothenburg. C2B2 started in September 2023. We are 11 research organisations and initially 25 stakeholders from industry and the public sector.C2B2 focuses on bringing about transformative change through participatory governance supported by relevant and insightful data and knowledge. 

C2B2 reimagines the role of quintuple helix actors [academia, industry, government, civil society, and the natural environment] across the blue economy in processes ‘from data to knowledge to decisions and action’, increasing opportunities for participation, deliberation and influence, building open infrastructure and strengthening capacity to support the inclusion of data and knowledge in multilevel governance. Importantly, in this conceptualisation, data is a means to ‘give nature a voice’.