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
Country in which the project is being developed and / or implemented.
Main blue economy sector the project relates to.
Current technology readiness level of the project.
Shellfish Developments Ltd
The Chairman ( Not to be CEO) is a marine biologist with a Veterinarian backgrounded who founded Scottish Sea Farms Ltd (SSFL)with Scottish Gov. agency HIDB investment of 20% equity. Sold his control 6 years later to ICI, who sold it on to current Norwegian owners. SSDL today does £370 million p.a. Also founded Red Sea Fish pHarm Ltd. Today does over $100 million p.a. almost all for export. Members of team and CEO are all highly qualified PhD's with specific and highly relevant experience in the proposed metier. The CEO Dr. P.Bois is a patent holder in a Photobioreactor which is of vital importance in our project. Dr. Sarkis has worked on production of Scallops , worked for FAO, and she wrote a book on the subject whilst employed there.
Dr. Agnes Mortensen is currently working on Seaweed production with her brother in Faroe Islands.
Creating 1st Scallop hatchery in UK, and only 3rd in Europe, to enable some 130 Oyster growers to
greatly expand their income, & enable UK Government to save environment by implementing a ban on dredging after a few years , which currently cannot be implemented. Also make huge improvements to nascent seaweed production by supplying seeded rope, as well as bring 2 UNIQUE uses of seaweed not previously done in Europe to vertically intergrade seaweed production
A first in UK in Scallop production, and 2 uses of seaweed, which we will only reveal with a strong NDA, or to investors