Blue Bio Bootcamp for Nordic companies

Blue Bio Bootcamp offered a packed day for entrepreneurs, mentors and innovation supporters in the blue bioeconomy. During the day, expert tips, success stories and an orientation in innovation and development support for blue companies were shared.

- "I came here with no particular expectations and I'm going home with many new contacts and new knowledge," says Defne Bilgin from the company Moreshrooms which produces blue proteins.

Lunch with the bootcamp coach

With participants from Sweden, Norway and Iceland, the event offered a unique platform for exchanging ideas and making valuable cross-border contacts - and above all, finding solutions to various challenges. During lunch, the entrepreneurs met with bootcamp coaches to explore their companies' specific challenges and needs for development.

Pitch tips and business development

The afternoon sessions focused on business development and workshops to help participants improve their pitches, develop the right financial strategies and match with a mentor.

"It is interesting to talk to entrepreneurs in this exciting area and discuss their business ideas and that we can add something now and in further contacts, for example about financing and how to think smart as a start-up company," says Bengt Raner from Almi West.

At the end of the day, participants were inspired and better equipped to take their business ideas to the next level.

-My head is completely full. I'm glad I was invited and came here. Fantastic, generous and intense but effective," says Anna Hörling who is designing a Terazzo material with oyster shells.

Other companies that participated were: CMar/Seame which makes tracking devices for fishing gear, AlgeLume, which uses microalgae to purify air, Glufs, which makes dog food and treats from mussels, Håva which grows sustainable giant prawns, and Ostrea which developed a cultivation technique for Ostrea Edulis.

The innovation supporters who participated were Almi Väst, Business Region Göteborg, Drivhuset Göteborg, Kristineberg Center for Marine Research and Innovation and Startup Jungle

Blue Bio Bootcamp organized in the framework of the Blue Bio Clusters project to support the positive transformation of European coastal communities and the emerging blue bioeconomy in the EU.