Blue Economy Centre - Open House

💙 A heartfelt thank you to everyone from our ecosystem who joined us to celebrate the opening of the new Blue Economy Centre at Astra on the Åbo Akademi campus in Turku. The seminar was fully booked, a wonderful sign of the growing momentum and collaboration within our community.

Thank you Aboa Advest for organizing this event and for bringing together the Blue Economy actors within the facilities of the Blue Economy Centre. And thank you to Stiftelsen för Åbo Akademi for building Astra — the home of our new Blue Economy Centre. 💙

We are grateful to all speakers and contributors for their inspiring insights and support: Lasse Svens (Stiftelsen för Åbo Akademi), Timo Ketonen (Aboa Advest), Minna Arve (Business Turku), Anna-Greta Nyström (Åbo Akademi University), Patrik Anckar (APelago), Anna Törnroos (Centre for Sustainable Ocean Science (SOS), Kaj Hagros (Redstone), Eetu Ristaniemi (Spacent).

A special thank you as well to Maailman Pienin Bilebändi (MPB) for the music and to Johanna Oras, Martina Snåre, and Maria Kajanki, who each created beautiful artworks for the new centre. Your contributions added creativity, warmth, and life to Astra’s spaces.

The atmosphere was filled with energy, curiosity, and shared ambition to make Turku a leading hub for sustainable maritime innovation. Together, we are building a collaborative space where ideas can grow, partnerships can form, and new solutions for our seas can take shape.

✨ Here’s to the future of the Blue Economy and to many more milestones at Astra!

Mingle at the Blue Economy Centre

Ocean Art by Johanna Oras