Projects

Short description of the project: Blue-Green Bio Lab was a two-year project financed by the European Regional Development Fund, aimed at supporting local authorities to intiate bio-industrial symbioses among aquaculture, agriculture and industry to...

Short description of the project: SeaChem is a four-year project financed by Horizon Europe, aimed at providing high-level training in the offshore cultivation and valorisation of seaweed to a new generation of 10 high-achieving doctoral candidates...

PerformFISH was a five-year project funded by EU H2020 aiming at increasing the competitiveness of Mediterranean aquaculture by overcoming biological, technical, and operational issues with innovative, cost-effective, integrated solutions, while...

Short description of the project: OrganicTargets4EU is a three-and-a-half-year project funded by EU Horizon Europe, aimed at supporting the Farm-To-Fork (F2F) Strategy targets for organic farming and organic aquaculture by setting possible scenarios...

Short description of the project: AquaWind is a three-year project funded by the EMFAF programme, aimed at demonstrating a co-located and multi-use integrated solution which integrates an innovative approach to finfish aquaculture with an existing...

Short description of the project: MSP4BIO was a three-year project funded by Horizon Europe aimed at improving science-based Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) to safeguard and restore biodiversity.

Tangible results: The project's final output is the...

Short description of the project: Sea2See is a four-year project financed by Horizon Europe aimed at providing innovative blockchain traceability technology and stakeholders' engagement strategy for boosting sustainable seafood visibility, social...

Short description of the project: SeaMark is a four-year project financed by Horizon Europe, aimed at utilising recent ground-breaking selective breeding technologies within EU seaweed crop genetics to increase biomass yield, upscaling circular...

Short description of the project: REALM is a four-year project financed by Horizon Europe, aimed at looking for solutions to increase the sustainability and reduce the costs of soilless farming and microalgae production, both of which are fast...

Short description of the project: FishEUTrust is a four-year project financed by Horizon Europe, aimed at defragmenting the current seafood system to ensure sustainability and a transparent and traceable seafood supply chain.

Short description of the project: MSP-GREEN is a two-year project funded by EMFAF aimed at positioning Maritime Spatial Planning  (MSP) as a key enabler of the European Green Deal (EDG). 

Tangible results: The project has gathered 21 valuable...

Short description of the project: KELP-EU was a project lasting 27 months funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) aimed at jump-starting the European sustainable seaweed industry by developing a sustainably farmed EU seaweed...

Short description of the project: Marifish.Inc was a two-year project financed by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) aimed at transforming the Ostend Fish Auction site into an incubator for startups and SMEs active in the Blue Economy.

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Short description of the project: AquaPekilo was a three-year project financed by EMFF aimed at bringing to market a novel, cost-competitive, locally produced, and sustainable aquaculture feed protein ingredient for use as an alternative to soy...

Short description of the project: ULVA FARM was a two-year project financed by EMFF, aimed at overcoming the technical challenges of current Ulva cultivation methods and setting the base for scaling-up their supply chain and operations.

ALGAENAUTS is a two-and-a-half-year project funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), aimed at achieving and validating the pre-commercial industrial production of microalgae-based biopesticide and biostimulant products for...

Short description of the project: Seafood Algternative was a two-year project financed by EMFF, aimed at making plant-based seafood accessible to all consumers while ensuring a good taste, texture and nutritional profile, and to scale-up operations...

Short description of the project: BRIDGE-BS was a four-year project financed by Horizon Europe aimed at advancing the Black Sea's marine research and developing predictive tools and capabilities necessary to understand and predict the impacts of...

Short description of the project: PHOTO-SENS was a four-year project financed by Horizon 2020 aimed at connecting pioneering photonic biosensor technology with aquaculture expertise to establish an aquaculture pathogen detection hub and a working...

Short description of the project: ASTRAL was a four-year project funded by EU Horizon 2020 aimed at developing new, sustainable, profitable and resilient value chains for Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) production within the framework of...