It is a great honor to have received the “Excellence is an Art” award for the best non-academic paper which is entitled “The Promotion of Underwater Cultural Heritage as a Sustainable Blue Growth Investment: Innovative Technologies and Bottom-up Cooperation Activities in Mediterranean Area” The work was carried out by our Innovation Management and Finance department and more specifically Mimi Papadopoulou and Anastasia Fourkiotou, under the supervision of Angelos Manglis. This presentation is an outcome of our work on project Bluemed Sustainable Tourism funded by the Interreg MED Programme. This award was offered at the 2019 European Triple Helix Congress on Responsible Innovation and Entrepreneurship (#ETHAC2019) organized by the Triple Helix Association during 30th September - 1st October in Thessaloniki.