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.

 

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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. 

DuWo
The DuWo project: the box for the sustainable and intelligent fish industry to eliminate polystyrene in the sea, the DuWo cassette allows, through the RFID microchip inserted in it, the traceability of the fish and the box itself, a system to return that gives an economic and social added value to all the actors of the fish chain, moreover a good practice towards the ecosostenibilità and the blue economy.

  • Fisheries

Company behind project
DuWo srl

Italy

About Us
DuWo founder Dante Mele, already founder of Campania Plastica srl, founded in 1987 as a packaging processing industry uses and recovers with recycled materials in the fruit and vegetable sector, sensitive to a more sustainable culture created DuWo, The DuWo project is covered by a patent, a packaging that provides a return for the fisheries sector to eliminate the use of polystyrene box in the sea and drastically reduce CO2 emissions.

Problem we are solving
The DuWo box will solve the problem of disposable polystyrene box, solve the problem of tracking the catch and the end-of-life box material is recycled with less plastic consumption and CO2 reduction, with the elimination of the disposal of polystyrene box.

Sustainable Impact on Blue Ecconomy
The unique value of the DuWo project is to have a concrete solution to eliminate polystyrene at sea and give a certification of traceability of the fish thanks to the RFID microchip inserted in the box

TRL
  • TRL 7 - System prototype demonstration in a relevant environment

  • Readiness Assistance Beneficiary

Financial Needs€250000

Planned Funding Allocation
  • Improve our R&D: 41
  • Sales and Marketing: 11
  • To hire more resources: 28
  • Other, please specify: 20