What is Investor Capacity Building for the Blue Economy?
The blue economy sector has a potential that is estimated to reach $3 trillion revenue and 200 million jobs globally by 2030. Through a series of four highly structured trainings, this capacity building programme will assist you in your journey of engagement with different blue economy sectors, from discovering new sustainable technologies with high market potential to developing your investment strategies and launching your blue economy dedicated funds.
Four trainings dedicated to investors
Session #1: Discovering Blue Economy Investment Opportunities
- Learn about emerging and sustainable technologies with high market potential across a range of blue economy sectors
- Gain insights on the main financing actors of the blue economy and the role of InvestEU and other sources of capital in financing the sector's future
Session #2: Impact Investing Masterclass
- Get familiar with important tools and frameworks to build an impactful and sustainable portfolio in the blue economy
- Ensure that your fund has a sound impact reporting and monitoring approach in place
Session #3: Investment Strategies for the Blue Economy
- Learn how to design dedicated blue funds and explore successful blue fund case studies with industry experts
- Leave the training with a better sense of investment instruments and de-risking approaches that can make sense for your blue economy investments
Session #4: Prototyping and Positioning for Blue Economy Funds
- Fine-tune your fund proposal and obtain a better sense of what is needed to convince investors to support your proposal
- Become better acquainted with practical pitching and negotiation skills needed to successfully raise a fund
Interested? Join the BlueInvest Community and register to our upcoming training sessions. Reach out to us at lu_blueinvest@pwc.com for any questions. Please be aware that the exact agenda for each session may be subject to change in the coming weeks.
Impact Investing Masterclass | 08 March 2023
Date: 08 March 2023
Format: Live event
Venue: Sparks Meeting, Brussels
Address: Rue Ravenstein 60, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
The Impact Investing Masterclass aims to provide a deep-dive on impact investing themes relevant to the Blue Economy, helping the investor community become more familiar and reassured that the Blue Economy offers opportunities for concrete impact achievements.
Indicative agenda:
09:00 – 09:05 Welcome
09:05 – 09:35 Demystifying ESG/sustainability/impact terminologies
09:35 – 11:30 Impact assessment and implementation: deep-dive on selected tools and frameworks
- Deep dive EU Taxonomy
- Deep dive Sustainable Blue FInance principles
- Deep dive EIF CA & ES framework
- Discussion and Q&A
11:30 – 11:45 Break
11:45 – 12:30 Regulatory and Compliance framework for SFDR Art. 8 & 9 Funds
12:30 – 13:30 Networking Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Reporting and monitoring: what to measure, how to ensure data quality, what to report and how
14:00 – 14:30 Incentives and rewards associated to impact achievements
14:30 – 14:45 Open discussion & Q&A
14:45 – 15:15 Case Study: Successfully integrating Blue technologies into a Green strategy
15:15 – 15:30 Closing remarks | Conclusion
Upcoming capacity building sessions
Date: November 2022 Format: Online on the BlueInvest Community Platform The blue economy sector has a potential that is estimated to reach $3 trillion revenue and 200 million jobs globally by 2030. Join our first capacity building session to discover the different actors and sectors of the blue economy as well as key emerging and sustainable blue technologies with high market potential. Indicative agenda: 14:00 – 14:10 Welcoming remarks
Discovering Blue Economy Investment Opportunities
14:10 – 14:30 Overview of key Blue Economy financing actors
14:30 – 14:55 Role and impact of InvestEU in financing the future of the Blue Economy
14:55 – 15:25 Investment path and landscape of the Blue Economy
15:25 – 15:40 Demystifying Blue Economy terminologies
15:40 – 15:50 Break
15:50 – 16:50 Game-changing sectors to achieve Net Zero: 10 innovative blue technologies featured
16:50 – 17:55 High-potential Blue Economy sectors and technologies of the future
17:55 - 18:00 Concluding remarksUpcoming Events
BlueInvest Day 2023
Past Events
High-Tech Summit for the Black Sea
BlueInvest for the Baltic
BlueInvest Investors Workshop @ BlueFIN
BlueInvest E-Pitching Session | 30 Nov 2022
BlueInvest | Community Platform & Project Pipeline Discovery Session
