uWare Robotics is taking the aerial drone revolution underwater to protect our oceans and secure our future. uWare is a European dual-use startup that builds autonomous underwater solutions so that any blue industry can have the data necessary for sustainable operations. Port activities and offshore renewable energy are crucial to our sustainable future. They are skyrocketing and need underwater data to manage their activities and protect their assets. Yet, current solutions for underwater data are cumbersome, dangerous and expensive. uWare’s end-to-end solution of fully autonomous underwater drones and accompanying AI-based data processing makes underwater data safe, efficient and affordable. A vision that is backed by first customers such as Fraunhofer Smart Ocean technologies, the Oceanographic Institutes of Spain and Portugal, Marine Inspection companies Créocean and Seaviews as well as defence consortia in critical infrastructure inspection. uWare has also been welcomed into prestigious blue economy networks such as the Sustainable Ocean Alliance Ecopreneurs and the EU BlueInvest program.

in-situ device for monitoring individual fish

Val Bio Waste Composite is a scientific technology company founded in 2022 in Tunisia. Built on eight years of research at the Environmental Engineering and Eco-Technology Laboratory (ENIS), we have successfully scaled from a laboratory prototype to industrial production. Our eco-friendly plastic provides a sustainable alternative to fossil-based plastics, enabling the transition to biodegradable, biomass-based solutions. With this innovation, we aim to combat plastic pollution in oceans and seas.

Vectura System, an innovative Franco-German company based between Nantes and Hamburg, which offers a 100% digital approach to decarbonize Work vessels.

VEGARDEN is an innovative Agritech startup, with an integrated Aquaponic ecosystem. In this model, insects are bred on organic waste from greenhouse plant cultivation to create a high-protein feed source for fish. Those fish are farmed in Recirculating Aquaculture Systems (RAS), achieving a biomass yield per m3 three times higher than traditional aquaponics, and ensuring optimal health through full control of farming conditions. Water from RAS is then treated in multistage bioreactors, allowing the conversion of waste into nutrients for plants, recovering over 90% of nutrients usually lost in traditional systems. Greenhouse plants, grown via vertical farming, benefit from enriched water, yielding annually five times more than field cultivation, with over 95% savings in water and land use. Finally, plant waste is reused as feed for insect larvae, reducing insect farm operational costs by 40%.

We provide the maritime industry with low emission sail assisted super yachts and ships.

Sylents is a high efficient propulsion system

VesselBot is a technology company that offers to the stakeholders of the shipping industry the opportunity to jump on board and take advantage of the cutting-edge technologies which enable them to optimize their performance and reduce costs. By using our platform, chartering practitioners are able to charter a vessel in seconds as opposed to days, achieving better and more up-to-date results. Furthermore, through our Data Intelligence reports and analytics as well as through our Intelligent Tools, they gain more forward-looking market insights that can increase profitability for their companies by making better, data-driven business decisions.

Vestland Pharma is a pharmaceutical company dedicated to developing natural and environmentally friendly solutions for the aquaculture industry, with a focus on innovative treatments for sea lice.

We are developing a biorefinery concept in order to use local red seaweed for the production of different semi and final products. With scientific projects we are testing methods based on circular economy principles in order to use the biomass for extraction of natural colorants, carrageenan, lipids, proteins and biostimulants.

Our start-up VH Quatrevingtreize developed a smart autonomous vessel, integrating its worldwide patented hydroturbines in the device, to transform wave movements into renewable energy. The energy is stored onboard and supplied offshore to research, defense and industries. The produced energy can also be used directly onboard for production and supply of finished "goods" to the continent (fresh water through desalination, green hydrogen, CO2 captation on the sea.. )

OceanConnected allows any internet user to practice "virtual dive" as an alternative to scuba dive. It associates professional divers (instructors and scientists) diving in undersea sites around the world, equipped with a submersible, computerised, connected console named Dolphyn, with internet users, subscribers of the web platform OceanConnected. It further mobilises biomimetic underwater robots, connected with this console for deeper diving. It allows, by programming the robot, its use for stationary observation of, for exemple, coral reefs, without disturbing the ecosystem. Contrary to scuba diving, virtual dive allows the geo-positioning of the collected images, its identification through data basis. It further allows the discover and exploration of the undersea mobilising social networks and offering to young children in schools the access to ocean depths, in real time end interactively.

Hydrogen-Electric propulsed low wave boat

Volta Greentech’s mission is to eliminate methane

Fully automated water measurement system

Sustainable + healthy period products from seaweed

Water Biosense Monitoring is WOLA´s current project dedicated to the development and optimization of automated analytical equipment that integrates different biological, biochemical, microbiological, and physicochemical parameters of interest in the water field. The system has the capacity of monitoring the different analytical parameters simultaneously in order to have online feedback and give early warnings through AI to prevent possible drastic problems and optimize the process.

Water&Soil® Ltd. is Hungarian agricultural input material producer addressing one of the greatest limitations to global agriculture: water scarcity.

Water2Energy designs and constructs Vertical Axis Water Turbines, to extract energy from relatively not fast running water and low head sites

Wave Daedalus is a blue economy project focused on the design and development of a wave energy converter with a dual role, near shore and in vessels. Wave Daedalus technology has been developed by EWD's founder, Dimitrios Lygeris, and is based on the operating principle of the free gyroscope. Using a lever, a floater is connected to the gyroscopic mechanism, which converts the free motion of the floater into rotational motion. This solution combines simple design with high energy efficiency, low manufacturing cost and easy removal. It allows for energy harvesting regradless of the direction of waves. It’s deployment can be scaled according to the energy needs of the customer and can meet power requirements from 0.5 kW to 100 kW or more (subject to conditions and deployment area). Daedalus represents a new approach to positively impacting the energy sector and contributing to sustainable shipping.