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.
We are developing a concept which makes use of specific locations around the Arctic Ocean to create ice and then have it transported into the Arctic waters by existing ocean currents. Through this natural ice distribution process and the use of large pumps, we believe it should be feasible to save 100,000 square kilometers of ice from melting during the summer, which will be sufficient to stop the decrease of the sea ice.
Arctic Reflections
Fonger Ypma, Founder & CEO (fulltime): Former McKinsey consultant, PhD at Oxford, seasoned cleantech entrepreneur and CEO
Tom Meijeraan, Founder & COO (fulltime): Experienced entrepreneur, innovation consultant & CPO
Global warming has reduced the Arctic sea ice volume already by 75% over the last 40 years, and even in the most optimistic carbon emissions reduction scenarios, the Arctic sea is expected to experience ice-free summers as early as the thirties.
This will further accelerate the climate crisis and start a series of devastating feedbacks, since the Arctic sea ice functions as the earth’s refrigerator by reflecting the sun’s heat back into space.
We aim to restore the Arctic ice by thickening the ice in winter through pumping sea water on top of it in strategically chosen locations across the Arctic Sea.
We aim to provide much needed direct cooling impact to the earth as a bridging solution until carbon levels are back at acceptable levels. According to calculations based on radiative forcing impact, every square kilometer of restored ice will have the equivalent cooling impact as the removal of one kiloton of CO2 over a 20-year horizon. Our efforts will be a 100% additional which we will be able to proof via an advanced monitoring system using satellite imagery.