The Mentoring and Accelerator for Blue Growth is one of SUBMARINER Networks’ key service to support and guide young blue tech companies and actors. Start-ups, spin-offs, SMEs – but also academic institutions, students and others come to the SUBMARINER Network for guidance with the development of new products or services (= we call them cases).
As part of our joint mission, all Accelerator mentors offer their labs, brains, resources, expertise and facilities to further advance the next generation of blue bioeconomy innovations in the Baltic. In a collaborative spirit, mentors offer this initial mentoring on a voluntary basis free of charge (up to the limit they can).
Mentors are individuals – some of them coming from our SUBMARINER members’ institutions; others joining on individual basis. Those, who join on individual basis, can do so FREE OF CHARGE; but are asked to participate in our initial mentors’ training (2h online) and subsequently sign a ‘mentors’ agreement. You will be asked once a year on whether you want to renew your mentors’ offer.
Why join as a blue growth mentor/blue detective?
- Offer people with a good business or innovative idea a unique network ofexperts, with a diverse range of skills & experience in all relevant blue bioeconomy fields
- Get access to business & research ideas (our accelerator “cases”) with good development potential
- Work on a one-by-one basis with start-ups and companies, which match your own interest, availability and capacities.
- Be part of the SUBMARINER mentors’ forum - our experts’ network hub - which meets regularly online: exchange on blue bioecomomy innovations, discuss the progress and needs of our cases and gain a good understanding of resources available throughout the Baltic Sea
- Become a blue detective!Spread the word and recruit new cases and offer them a getaway to ad-hoc product development services/
- Help to develop the blue bio economy throughout the Baltic Sea Region, by guiding new cases and network members to find the right partners and thus build full product or service value chains
For more opportunities please get in touch with:
Angela Schultz-Zehden, Managing director of the SUBMARINER Network, at asz(at)submariner-network.eu
or Efthalia Arvaniti, Programme manager of the SUBMARINER Network, at ea(at)submariner-network.eu