What is the BlueInvest Project Pipeline?

The BlueInvest Project Pipeline is a database and showcase of projects, scale-ups and SMEs who are driving innovation and sustainability in the Blue Economy.

The projects featured are innovative, scalable and sustainable business ventures from traditional and emerging sectors of the maritime economy.

The aim is to facilitate connections between projects and investors, helping innovative ventures gain visibility and access to funding opportunities.

 

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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

What is the BlueInvest Project Pipeline?

The BlueInvest Project Pipeline is a database and showcase of projects, scale-ups and SMEs who are driving innovation and sustainability in the Blue Economy.

The projects featured are innovative, scalable and sustainable business ventures from traditional and emerging sectors of the maritime economy.

The aim is to facilitate connections between projects and investors, helping innovative ventures gain visibility and access to funding opportunities.

 

Want to be featured? 

Login to the BlueInvest community & Submit your project

 

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

"Recreational Diving Oasis with Artificial Reefs"
ARIA is aiming to participate as a partner in EU R&I consortia for the development, testing and demonstration of novel technologies relevant with the creation, function and maintenance of recreational diving parks, special fisheries' management areas, extensive aquaculture combined with OWFs activities and many similar blue growth related topics.

  • Coastal and environmental protection and regeneration

Company behind project
ARIA - ARTIFICIAL REEF INNOVATIVE APPLICATIONS

Greece


Problem we are solving
The degradation of many recreational diving destinations all over the world due to massive ecotourism necessitates the adoption of innovative management measures.

Sustainable Impact on Blue Ecconomy
HCMR has developed an innovative technology for the creation of artificial underwater ecotourism attractions (diving oases) using specially constructed artificial reefs in an attempt to simulate the functional and morphological characteristics and the aesthetics of the natural rocky reefs.

TRL
  • TRL 9 - Actual system proven through successful mission operations


Financial Needs500,000.00 euros

Planned Funding Allocation
  • Improve our R&D: 30
  • Sales and Marketing: 30
  • Operations: 30
  • New premises: 10