City to Sea Accelerator

City to Sea Accelerator is a six-month program aiming to promote the development of innovative and sustainable solutions within two thematic areas - water innovations and mobility. Water innovations bath focus on environmental protection, digital transformation of ports, food supply chains and other thematic areas of the blue economy, while mobility team solutions are focused to foster convenient, affordable and environmentally friendly movement in cities.

The support program offers three levels of support:
1) Capacity promotion - promoting knowledge and skills for business development.
2) Prototyping - creating and improving solution prototypes under the guidance of experts and professionals (each team has its own financial portfolio for prototyping up to 12 000 EUR);
3) Testing - support for deployment of the developed prototypes within a real-life environment in Latvia (e.g., the City of Riga, facilities of the Riga Technical University etc.).

16 teams are selected for participation within the program (8 in each thematic area). Accelerator program is currently ongoing from January 2023 until June 2023

The program is powered by the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia in collaboration with the Science and Innovation Centre of Riga Technical University and the innovation movement VEFRESH. City to Sea is part of #MissionSea2030. Its main objective is to address climate change, pollution and the circular economy by creating an environment conducive to innovation and sustainability.