Project Leaders
The Green Innovation Compass platform was developed as part of the European MAGPIE project (sMArt Green Ports as Integrated Efficient multimodal hubs), coordinated by the Port of Rotterdam.
MAGPIE brought together 44 partners, including ports, companies, knowledge institutions and public administrations. The main participating ports included the Port of Rotterdam (Netherlands), Haropa Port (France), Sines/APS (Portugal) and DeltaPort (Germany).
Project Description
This innovative project has developed Green Innovation Compass, a free, open-access knowledge platform that brings together information on technologies, innovative solutions and operational concepts aimed at driving the green and digital transition of ports.
The platform brings together the knowledge generated during the European MAGPIE project and provides structured information on different innovative solutions, including their potential applications, implementation requirements, associated barriers and factors that can facilitate their adoption.
Green Innovation Compass enables users to explore and compare different solutions in areas related to port transformation, making it easier for each port to identify the innovations that best suit its needs, objectives and operational context.
The platform provides information on various areas of innovation, such as electrification, alternative fuels, automation, resilience and digitalisation. For each technology, Green Innovation Compass provides details on potential applications, prerequisites for implementation, expected impact and key factors that facilitate deployment, helping ports make well-informed decisions tailored to their specific circumstances, ambitions and stage of development.
The main innovation of Green Innovation Compass lies in centralising and structuring European knowledge on port innovation and transforming it into a decision-support tool. In this way, ports can access comparable information on different innovative solutions, understand the conditions required to implement them and assess which ones may best suit their own context.
Each innovation included in Green Innovation Compass is linked to a Technology Readiness Level (TRL), an internationally recognised framework that indicates the degree of technological maturity of an innovation. This information helps assess the current status of an innovation and determine the level of commitment that best aligns with each organisation’s ambitions, risk tolerance and innovation strategy.
In addition to technological maturity, the platform also takes into account the level of digital maturity and organisational readiness required to successfully implement each innovation included in the platform.
The European MAGPIE project concluded on 17 September 2026, but Green Innovation Compass has been designed as a dynamic and continuously growing platform. In addition to keeping the knowledge generated during the project accessible, facilitating its consultation and application beyond the project’s completion, it invites users to share new knowledge, experiences and practical examples.
Project Objectives
The main objective is to facilitate ports’ access to structured knowledge on innovations and support the identification, comparison and evaluation of solutions that can contribute to their sustainability and digitalisation objectives.
The initiative also aims to facilitate decision-making on the implementation of new technologies by providing information on their maturity, the necessary requirements, potential applications and associated barriers.
Publication Date
12 November 2026