Blue Carbon
Climate and marine ecosystems: connecting knowledge, blue carbon conservation and learning about the footprint of nautical activities.
Explore this line: Blue CarbonMED-MAR-LAB · Mediterranean Maritime Living Lab
A living lab for sustainable nautical tourism
Mundo Marino connects real Mediterranean operations with research, education and innovation. Blue Carbon and Blue Impact are two complementary lines within MED-MAR-LAB: one platform for testing ideas and building evidence.
Operational pilot environment
Spanish MediterraneanMED-MAR-LABBlue Carbon + Blue Impact
MED-MAR-LAB · Two complementary lines
One operational platform. Two lines of work.
MED-MAR-LAB, Mundo Marino’s Mediterranean Maritime Living Lab, connects vessels, routes and operational experience with scientific, educational and technology partners. Blue Carbon and Blue Impact sit within this same platform.
Blue Impact
Mundo Marino’s impact framework for sustainable nautical tourism: a lower footprint, ocean literacy, local value and measurable outcomes that can be replicated.
Explore this line: Blue ImpactThe scale of our operations
close to 500,000passengers / year
around 100,000nautical miles / year
Estimated annual operating volumes provided by Mundo Marino. These are not educational participant counts or learning, emissions-reduction or impact outcomes already achieved.
Line 01 · Blue Carbon
Connecting climate and marine ecosystems
Blue Carbon keeps the focus on blue carbon and its relationship with coastal and marine ecosystem conservation. MED-MAR-LAB provides the operational setting to explore observation, awareness and scientific collaboration, with the scope and methodology agreed for each pilot.
Propose a collaboration- Knowledge and awareness of blue carbon ecosystems, including seagrass meadows.
- Scientific collaboration to define what to observe, how to measure it and the limits of the evidence.
- A connection with operational footprint reduction, while distinguishing activity emissions from carbon stored in ecosystems.
This line does not establish carbon removal, completed restoration or certified carbon credits. Outcomes must be supported by specific evidence.
Line 02 · Blue Impact
Turning daily operations into measurable impact
Blue Impact is Mundo Marino’s impact framework for sustainable nautical tourism. It brings together five areas of work and uses MED-MAR-LAB as a platform to co-design, test, evaluate and share practices with other Mediterranean destinations.
Lower operational footprint
Advance energy efficiency and reduce the operational footprint. Set baselines and measure consumption and emissions intensity using an explicit methodology.
Ocean literacy · Aula Abierta al Mar
Bring knowledge of the Mediterranean into the onboard experience through Aula Abierta al Mar. Co-design content with educational and scientific organisations and assess learning among actual participants.
Local value
Support employment, suppliers and collaboration with coastal communities. Document the local contribution and context of each activity.
Impact measurement
Distinguish activity, participation and outcomes. Record each pilot’s scope, method, period, costs and limitations before communicating its impact.
Mediterranean replication
Turn evaluated practices into materials and protocols that ports, destinations and operators can adapt to their local conditions.
From ambition to evidence
Each pilot should agree an objective, baseline, participants, indicators and evaluation criteria. Passenger and mileage volumes show operational scale; educational, environmental and local outcomes will be measured separately.
Blue Carbon provides a specific line of work on climate and ecosystems. Blue Impact connects that line with marine education, local value, evaluation and replication. MED-MAR-LAB provides the real-world setting for both.
Blue Impact on one page
Approved introduction to Mundo Marino Blue Impact. English document · PDF · 1 page · version 4.
What we can support
Six capabilities for real-world pilots
A practical operating context for real-world technology demonstration and validation.
Piloting aboard operating vessels
Real-world piloting aboard passenger vessels in operation.
Coastal and port testing
Testing in coastal and port environments in the Spanish Mediterranean.
Crews and passengers
Pilots involving professional crews and passengers.
Data collection
Operational and environmental data collection as part of pilot activity.
Citizen engagement
Citizen engagement within suitable demonstration activity.
Validation and uptake
Validation and support for market uptake.
Mediterranean Maritime Living Lab
Pilots shaped by real operating conditions
The proposed environment brings together operating passenger vessels, professional crews, passengers and coastal and port scenarios. This combination can support pilots in real conditions, from trial activity and data collection through validation and support for market uptake.
The scope presented is operational: it does not claim a dedicated test facility or technical infrastructure beyond the confirmed environment.
Potential pilot pathway
- Operating vessels
- Real-world pilot
- Data collection
- Validation & uptake
Who we want to connect with
Collaborate on a real-world pilot
We welcome scientific, educational, technology and local partners for Blue Carbon and Blue Impact pilots, as well as teams preparing European projects. Each collaboration needs an agreed scope, responsibilities and evaluation method.
- European project coordinators and consortia
- Universities and research organisations
- Ocean technology developers
- Maritime and port innovation actors
- Educational organisations, coastal communities and tourism operators
The collaboration context
A real-world contribution to a European testing network
This Horizon Europe topic provides a reference for exploring a European network of ocean technology testing sites. Mundo Marino proposes a potential contribution from operating passenger vessels and Mediterranean coastal routes. This does not imply confirmed consortium participation or that the call is currently open.
Horizon Europe topic01
HORIZON-MISS-2026-03-OCEAN-04
Official topic title
Towards a European network of ocean technology testing sites
Open the Funding & Tenders topic announcementsOpens in a new tabThe official link opens the partner-search announcements for this Horizon Europe topic.
Projects & demonstrators
Public opportunities and pilot demonstrators
Explore collaboration pathways and Mundo Marino’s public pilot demonstrators. Each item states its scope and validation status.
Horizon Europe · Reference topic
INNOVA CRUCEROS SL — Mundo Marino
HORIZON-MISS-2026-03-OCEAN-04
Towards a European network of ocean technology testing sitesPublic demonstrator · Illustrative values
Mundo Marino · Experimental pilot
Passenger Climate Action
An interactive bilingual demonstrator that visualises estimated climate impact per passenger and explores voluntary contributions during a tour.Educational demonstration only. It is not a formal carbon footprint or proof of certified offsetting.Blue Impact · Educational collaboration
Aula Abierta al Mar
A line of onboard ocean-literacy work to co-design with educational and scientific partners, using the passenger experience as a setting for learning about the Mediterranean.Each activity needs suitable materials, a defined audience, an onboard lead and a method to assess learning.Find us in these networks
Profiles, networks and collaboration
Connect with Mundo Marino through our collaboration profiles and sustainability networks. These links bring together our public presence and our participation in the BlueActionMatch community.
Explore funding pathwaysCommunity profile & introduction
SUBMARINER · BlueActionMatch
Our profile and MED-MAR-LAB introduction are available inside BlueActionMatch, the community managed by SUBMARINER for connecting ocean research, innovation and education.
Sign in to view community profiles and posts. The link opens the community feed.
Public organisation & contact profiles
PANORAMA
Explore Mundo Marino’s organisation profile and David de Haro’s professional profile, which introduces MED-MAR-LAB and invites collaboration with scientific, conservation and technology partners.
Published partner-search profile
SBEP
Our Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership profile presents an offer to join transnational research and innovation projects with suitable vessel-based pilots in the Mediterranean.
A collaboration offer; funding and consortium participation are not confirmed.
Public project page in the platform
REECEA
Our “Mundo Marino Sostenible” initiative is published in the Spanish Network of Knowledge Spaces for the Blue Economy platform, connecting nautical tourism with ocean education and Mediterranean conservation.
Sustainable tourism · Plastics commitments
One Planet Network
Mundo Marino’s public profile in One Planet Network records commitments under the Global Tourism Plastics Initiative, connecting responsible nautical tourism with practical action on plastics.
Public corporate profile
LinkedIn · Mundo Marino
Follow our corporate profile for news about Mundo Marino, maritime projects and collaboration opportunities, and connect with our professional community.
Consortia & funding pathways
Programmes to build collaborations around
We welcome teams preparing research, technology and Mediterranean cooperation projects. MED-MAR-LAB can contribute a potential operating environment for suitable pilots aboard passenger vessels and in coastal and port settings.
Seeking research partners
SBEP
Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership
Explore transnational research on marine observation, digitalisation and coastal resilience, with the scope of any vessel-based pilot agreed with scientific and technology partners.
A pathway to explore with technology SMEs
Eurostars
Eureka · International R&D
Collaborative R&D on marine sensing, data systems and innovative services. We welcome discussions with innovative SMEs about practical trials and validation in our operating environment.
Cooperation opportunities to explore
Interreg NEXT MED
Mediterranean cooperation
Transfer and adapt approaches to sustainable maritime tourism, ocean literacy and connections between ports and coastal communities with Mediterranean partners.
Cooperation opportunities to explore
Interreg Euro-MED
Sustainability & territorial resilience
Explore partnerships on natural heritage, sustainable use of marine spaces and pilot solutions. The fit of each idea depends on the priorities of the specific call.
These are collaboration pathways under consideration. Consortium roles, eligibility, resources and funding must be agreed and checked for each call.
Potential collaboration
Propose a collaboration with MED-MAR-LAB
Tell us whether your idea relates to Blue Carbon, Blue Impact or both: what you can contribute, what you want to test and how you would measure results. We will review its fit with our vessels, routes, crews and operating conditions.