Meet the winners of the Blue Innovation Awards 2025

On Thursday 9 October, the winners of the Blue Innovation Awards 2025 were announced during StarWatts in Maison De La Poste in Brussels. Blue Cluster proudly presents the winning initiatives:

• MAHI Sense by MAHI won the Blue Innovation Wave Award. It is the first autonomous maritime computer system officially approved for installation on internationally certified seagoing vessels. This consitutes a major milestone for the future of autonomous shipping.
• GEOxyz’s Geodrone 6800 received the Corporate Blue Innovation Wave Award. This unmanned surface drone performs offshore measurements without crew on board, operated entirely remotely from a control room onshore. The result is safer, more sustainable, and more efficient operations, with significantly reduced CO₂ emissions.

• The Data-Driven Whale Routing app, a joint creation by Whale Guardians, Bogerd Martin, Dice Consulting and LuxSpace, won the Blue Innovation Swell Award. The app uses smart data to make shipping routes safer for whales by showing where they are most likely to be at a given time.
• Finally, the Inspirational Blue Wave Award, presented by the public, went to Aquaforest by Jan De Nul. This project uses dredged sediment to create a mangrove island in Ecuador. Apart from restoring nature, it provides insights into ecological construction and nature-inclusive design.

The winners will feature prominently at Blue Cluster events in the coming year year and may use the unique Blue Innovation Awards logo.

A selection of pictures of the event will be published on this page in the near future.

The Blue Innovation Awards are an initiative of Blue Cluster to give exposure to innovative projects, products and services in the blue economy. 

All entries are scored on the basis of five criteria: innovative character; link to economic activities in, on and by the sea; market potential; international ambitions and impact; and contribution to the delivery of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).