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.
UPCYCLINK
Dr. Jean-Pascal Bergé, Founder and CEO, PhD) in marine biology and is involved in marine biotechnology for 27 years. He spent 22 years in IFREMER as a scientist (junior and senior) including 5 years as director of a laboratory (25 people). He has spent 4 years in the private sector (Laboratoire Science & Mer and IDMer) as a Scientific Director. In 2018, he created BioThoT to offer consulting, R&D and innovation services to biomass processors. J.P Bergé is an expert in marine biotechnology particularly in biorefinery and upcycling. He is the treasurer of the European Society of Marine Biotechnology and acts as an expert toward the FAO and the EU commission.
Efficient biomass processing: it is a new, disruptive and efficient management of biomass following the principles of the circular economy that we propose to preserve healthy, productive and diversified ecosystems: Our units maximize the value of biomass through the production of value-added products for different application markets such as plant nutrition, animal nutrition, human nutrition, cosmetics. Our units are modular by combining standardized production modules that can be reconfigured for a new product and/or sized to handle new volumes. Production capacity can be provided as a mobile and flexible resource that can be quickly adapted to needs at a specific time. Our units are compact and easily transportable that could be installed in e.g. a container and transported by e.g. truck or train or vessel to proceed as close as possible to the deposits. They could be placed close to product development or customers within the Food Supply Chain. Our units use next-generation Industry 4.0 technology by implementing sensing, smart and sustainable concepts (S3) to be more productive, competitive and sustainable (e.g. smart sensors, big data, super-fast broadband). Our units possess a telemetry system to monitor the overall system remotely in real-time. Visualization is done through a dedicated and personalized Internet portal for viewing the history of operations, balances and yields (material and energy) and maintenance forecasts.
By proposing an innovative strategy and a territory approach of biomass management and upgrading, this solution is totally within the new European directive on waste and will allow innovative business models bringing competitive products and services to the market. It will demonstrate that local solutions can turn biomass into ecological and economic assets by exploiting their untapped potentials.