PREP4BLUE Resource: Funding the scale-up of Mission solutions factsheets: Financing Models & Recommendations

To support Mission ‘Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030’ stakeholders, PREP4BLUE partners, have explored and collated a series of funding models which could be applied by Mission stakeholder to drive the scale-up of their solutions towards Mission objectives. 

These models have been captured in project deliverable 5.2 “Business model blueprints and de-risking recommendations” and 5.4 “Vision of how to fund scale-up solutions beyond 2025”.

The innovative funding models identified and a series of recommendations for stakeholders have been captures across a series of factsheets. The factsheets will be of interest to Mission stakeholder or anyone looking to drive the scale-up of their aquatic solutions. 

1. Cascade financing
2. Concessional and blended finance
3. Crowdfunding
4. Grants and donations
5. Pre-commercial procurement and public procurement of innovative solutions (PCP &PP)
6. Equity and debt financing
7. Recommendations