Innovation

The purpose of the CEMarin innovation unit is to promote relationships between our corporation and startups related to our innovation and entrepreneurship objetives. in this sense, together with experts from the enterpreneurship and innovation ecosystem, we are designing the mechanisms and interaction models that we will apply in this area.

CEMarin Challenges is a platform of challenges on specific themes that aims to attract the best projects by sector, business model and/or technology.

 

In July 2020, the first CEMarin Challenge was carried out virtually, in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Conservation International, with the theme of innovation in artisanal fishing. Taking into account the huge problem of the non-biodegradable waste that floods our oceans and the prevalence of Styrofoam in the storage and transport of artisanal fishing resources in Colombia, the main objective of the initiative was to find an alternative solution to the use of Styrofoam.

 

Over three and a half days, the teams worked on four phases of the challenges, based on the context of artisanal fishing. The evaluation criteria for the proposals were:

Incredible Ideas Emerged

 

Incredible ideas emerged in all phases of the challenge. the accompaniment of 10 mentors and 5 guides resulted in a journey that leaves us with 14 projects with great potential. You can see below how we announced the winning project.

 

The winner received $2,500,000 Colombian pesos and the possibility of finding other funding sources for their project to be implemented and become real.