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.
Arctur d.o.o. (Ltd.)
Tomi Ilija (male) is the founder and CEO of Arctur and he holds a MSc degree from Ljubljana University, Faculty of Electrical Engineering. Mr. Ilija is an entrepreneur focusing on Hi-Tech innovation, who has shared his knowledge and experience to many start-ups and spin-offs in the region. He participated in many EU funded R&D projects, inventing new business models in HPCaaS and successfully breaking the barriers in bringing HPC to manufacturing SMEs. Recently, his research focus is on transferring new technologies like HPDA, IoT and Blockchain from Industry 4.0 to tourism under the Tourism 4.0 initiative, led by Arctur. He is also a member of EUROHPC Research & Innovation Advisory Group (RIAG) and a member of the PRACE Industrial Advisory Committee.
Tourism Impact Model (TIM) is an award-winning tool using real data, collected from many stakeholders and perspectives, to create an objective picture of the impact of tourism in a certain location. It analyses data gathered from different societal aspects: from environment, economy, society and culture to collaboration - capturing both the positive and the negative impacts of tourism.
By modelling the impact of tourism with the use of different scenarios, it acts also as a digital twin of a tourist destination, which enables strategy makers to consider the challenges, opportunities and future of a tourism location in a holistic manner - exploring the impact of new developments on existing services. Nowadays, such decisions are taken on the basis of anecdotal evidence or the opinions of experts or politicians. A system built on extensive data will lead to better outcomes.
TIM is aligned with the UNSDGs and boosts sustainable progress and investments in tourism and in other sectors.
Monitoring impact (not only activity); Fully digitalised process; Automatic & free report generation; Data accuracy analysis and recommendations; SDGs data collecting on local administrative level; Community marketplace