What is the BlueInvest Project Pipeline?
See our showcase of innovative projects and entrepreneurs who are shaping the Blue Economy.
Projects consist of innovative, scalable and sustainable business ventures from traditional and emerging sectors of the maritime economy.
The graphs below provide an overview of the country distribution, sector, and TRL of projects currently listed in the BlueInvest Project Pipeline.
Selection Criteria:
Your company is EU-based or from an eligible sea basin region (Georgia, Turkey, Ukraine, Moldova, Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria, Libya, Mauritania, United Kingdom, or Norway)
Your project TRL is 4 or higher
Your project sector is in one of the 10 blue economy sectors identified for this initiative
Your solution has a clear sustainable impact on the blue economy
Your project is looking for investment
Project Country
Country in which the project is being developed and / or implemented.
Project Sector
Main blue economy sector the project relates to.
Project TRL
Current technology readiness level of the project.
Wipsea
Gwenaël Duclos, founder of Wipsea, was one member of the team who used drones and computer vision in 2011 to survey cetaceans in Australia (Hodgson et al 2013, Mejias et al 2013). During the next ten years, Wipsea worked with Office Français de la Biodiversité and all French Marine Protected Areas to use drones and artificial intelligence to survey sea turtles and human leisure activities. From 2019 to 2023, Wipsea developed a neural network capable to detect and recognize all metropolitan french marine megafauna.
Marine megafauna are done by plane, even when digital with cameras replacing human observers. Planes are producing Co2 and their availability is a bottleneck for offshore wind farms growing market.
WildDrone project aims at using drones instead of planes to perform these surveys with less to no carbon emission (depending on the energy used to produce electricity for the drone).