The paper, a joint effort from CETMAR, AquaTT and Indigo-Med, has been published in Frontiers in Marine Science and is entitled “Ocean Literacy and Knowledge Transfer Synergies in Support of a Sustainable Blue Economy” and forms part of a special issue on “Connecting People to Their Oceans: Issues and Options for Effective Ocean Literacy”. The paper discusses how Knowledge Transfer can support Ocean Literacy and the Blue Economy based on the ERASMUS+ funded project MATES - Blueprint for a Sector Skills’ Alliance in the maritime technologies. The MATES partnership explicitly combines Ocean Literacy and Knowledge Transfer by applying the “COLUMBUS Knowledge Transfer Methodology” as developed by the H2020-funded COLUMBUS project of which EurOcean was a key partner responsible for the Knowledge Collection Work Package linked to its Knowledge gate database.