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.
Ecos Estudios Ambientales y Oceanografia sl
Manuel Ruiz Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Co-Founder. PhD in Economics and Entrepreneurship, 17-years experience in research, and expertise in founding, managing and scaling start-ups in the marine sector into mature businesses. President of EMERGE Association and co-founder of Marine Park. Strength: leadership. Role in the project: Project Manager Gregorio Louzara - Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Co-Founder. Experience: Expertise in specialised software and data collection from the use of specific oceanographic instrumentation. 7-years experience as a researcher in the Canarian Institute of Marine Sciences, and 10-years as co-founder and CTO of ECOS. Strength: technical analysis. Role in the project: day-to-day management of the product to ensure seamless scalability.
Brine, a by-product generated in the process of converting seawater into drinking water, is a hypersaline waste that negatively affects marine ecosystem such Posidonia Oceanica meadows, an important endemic species of the Mediterranean Sea and habitat of the European Union.
For improving and recovering these ecosystems, ECOS has developed the Venturi Brine diffuser by relying on a multidisciplinary team of experienced professionals.
Venturi Brine is the only diffuser with an internal mixing system, which immediately eliminates the impact of brine on the marine environment. Thanks to their high-efficiency they can reduce the length of the submarine discharge pipes, allowing a saving of 30% of CAPEX to water management companies and 25% of operating costs. We transform the industry into sustainable saving costs while preserving the marine ecosystem and enabling its regeneration.
Is the unique device with an Internal mixing system that increases the dilution inside the diffuser, needing less diffusers than the competitors to achieve the same dilution rates, reducing the CAPEX around 30%.