Pitch session 1
12.00 - 12.40 > Funding opportunities for Blue SMEs, highly innovative & breakthrough technologies
Organised by CINEA/EISMEA
Description: This session will inform stakeholders about advisory services, investment, and funding opportunities of interest for SMEs and for breakthrough technologies in the blue economy sectors.
It will include the BLUEINVEST platform, the GREEN ASSIST advisory services, the Innovation Fund and European Innovation Council Accelerator and Transition schemes.
The Green Advisory Service for Sustainable Investments Support (Green Assist) is a new advisory initiative under InvestEU, funded from the LIFE programme. It aims at building up a pipeline for green investment projects that have a high impact.
The Innovation Fund focuses on highly innovative technologies and big flagship projects within Europe that can bring on significant emission reductions. It is about sharing the risk with project promoters to help with the demonstration of first-of-a-kind highly innovative projects.
BlueInvest is a platform and accelerator to foster innovation and investment in sustainable technologies for the blue economy. It provides investment readiness support and access to finance for early-stage businesses, SMEs, and scale-ups. More information on funding opportunities will be available at the EU stand on the exhibition.
Moderator:
Aneta WILLEMS, CINEA, Head of Department for natural resources, climate, sustainable blue economy and clean energy
Speakers:
- GREEN ASSIST: Green Advisory Service for Sustainable Investments Support, Gauthier CLAR, senior financial engineer, CINEA
- European Innovation Council Accelerator and Transition, Ted ERIKSSON, project advisor, EISMEA
- Innovation Fund small scale projects call for proposals, Luca Marangoni, Deputy head of Unit, CINEA
- BLUEINVEST platform opportunities, Fabrice POURCEAU, project advisor, CINEA
- Bound4blue’s testimony : Cristina ALEIXENDRI, COO and cofounder Bound4blue
