What is the BlueInvest Project Pipeline?
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
Project Country
Country in which the project is being developed and / or implemented.
Project Sector
Main blue economy sector the project relates to.
Project TRL
Current technology readiness level of the project.
TechnoCarbon
Stephan Savarese: co-founder, President & CEO, an aerospace engineer (Centrale Lyon, Cornell), started in 1991 in the USA as CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) specialist, then developed expertise in Europe (structural mechanics, material science, multiphysics simulation). In 2015, Stephan left his corporate job to address unsolved challenges of climate change mitigation, because there is no realistic adaptation plan to current global warming scenarios (by 2100: +4 to 6 degrees, 1-3 meters of sea-level rise). During his research, Stephan found that limiting sea-level rise and ocean acidification, which are major threats on marine ecosystems, mean replacing concrete, steel and aluminium with carbon-negative materials (IPCC SR15, chap. 4). Kolja Kuse: co-founder & CTO, EEE engineer (RWTH Aachen), Kolja pioneered carbo-negativity and discovered the first carbon-negative and scalable material: CFS. He invited Stephan to meet him at COP23 because he knew Stephan was looking for CFS.
Shipbuilding within offshore and seashore infrastructure entails large amounts of metals (steel and aluminium) and concrete. These 3 materials generate 20% of CO2 emissions worldwide. Sea level rise due to climate change will result in infrastructure overhaul and reinforcement projects worldwide. Thus low-carbon Blue Growth will require new materials with longer lifetime and lower carbon footprint than steel, aluminium and concrete. Furthermore, natural resources such as freshwater, sand and other sediments are becoming scarcer every day, due to climate change and/or environmental protection. Our technology solves all these issues at the global level as it has a high replacement potential up to the multi-billion tons per year scale. That's due to the availability of hard stone (90% of Earth's crust) but also because our material can be partly or made from recycled waste (if required and depending on actual cost/benefits ratio).
All relevant data for sea-level rise adaptation have been summarized in the SROCC IPCC report (chap.4):
https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/chapter/chapter-4-sea-level-rise-and-implications-for-low-lying-islands-coasts-and-communities/
CarbonFibreStone is a mineral-carbon alloy that harnesses the forces that formed Planet Earth and applies modern materials and process innovations to create new materials. It is corrosion-free and will cut installation times by a factor of 2 or more.
Granite that bends. Railway sleepers that outlast the testing equipment. Marine Vessels that won't rust. Rooves, domes, dams, bridges and ports with biblical longevity. CFS has 10x smaller carbon footprint: 5-10-times more longevity and resilience than concrete and/or steel, 4-times more resistance to stress than aluminium or concrete, 3-times lighter than steel, 2-times less energy consumption than traditional materials. Zero-waste, zero CO2, zero fine particle emissions Zero sand, zero freshwater consumption
All relevant data for sea-level rise adaptation have been summarized in the SROCC IPCC report (chap.4):
https://www.ipcc.ch/srocc/chapter/chapter-4-sea-level-rise-and-implications-for-low-lying-islands-coasts-and-communities/