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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
SeaBird
SeaBird was funded in 2011 by Marie Chauvel on the Atlantic coast of France with the aim of reducing the pollution of conventional plastics in the environment. Naturally turned towards the ocean, SeaBird’s team is conscious of the impact of plastics on the marine environment and offers solutions by developing innovative biobased and biodegradable compounds and tailor-made formulations able to substitute conventional plastics for applications having a high risk of being lost in the marine environment. SeaBird began as a design office, and thanks to intensive research and development the company has evolved into a pilot-scale production facility, producing commercial compounds all the while developing new formulations adapted to the requirements of a wide range of products and production processes. Today, the company is participating in a variety of national and European projects with continuous innovation efforts.
It is estimated that 640 000 tons of waste is lost or abandoned by the fishing sector in the marine environment, representing 10% of the total plastic pollution in the oceans. Fishing gear is a source of plastic pollution in the marine environment when lost or abandoned, causing well known issues of gosht fishing, marine litter and persistent microplastics in the environment. Moreover, fishing gears are difficult to recycle when they are discarded soiled and are still too often buried or incinerated at their end-of-life. SeaBird offers a solution for fishing gears such as gill nets by developing biobased and biodegradable materials for the manufacture of compostable fishing nets.
Biobased and biodegradable fishing gear, such as the trammel nets that have been developed, present an innovative solution for the end-of-life management of the product. After its use phase, which lasts 1 to 2 fishing seasons, the fishing net can be biologically recycled by composting, offering an alternative to the current disposal solutions that are burial or incineration, therefore integrating a circular bioeconomy model. If the fishing gear is lost at sea, it will degrade rapidly and avoid persistent plastic pollution in the environment. Furthermore, the fishing gear is biobased and uses renewable resources, participating in the decarbonation efforts of the fishing sector.