Projects

Short description of the project: FANBEST was a five-year project financed by the Atlantic Area INTERREG Programme, aimed at fostering the technology transfer to SMEs in blue biotechnology and exploitation of marine resources by creating a network of...

DEMO-BLUESMARTFEED was a three-year project funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), aimed at validating the ‘Smart System for Feeding Control’ (SICA)in order to speed up its market uptake.

Tangible results: SICA is a smart...

BlueBio is a five-and-a-half-year project funded by EU Horizon 2020, aimed at identifying the best ways of bringing bio-based products and services to the market through the establishment of a coordinated R&D funding scheme to strengthen Europe’s...

Short description of the project: The ambition of iFishIENCi is developing and demonstrating disruptive IoT/AI based innovations, considering the feeding value chain as a whole, and addressing four commercially-important species, with fish quality as...

FutureEUAqua is a four-and-half-year project funded by EU Horizon 2020, aimed at promoting the sustainable growth of climate-change resilient, environmentally-friendly organic and conventional aquaculture of major fish species and low trophic level...

Short description of the project: BCE was a three-year project co-financed by ERDF, aimed at addressing the global issue of marine littering, particularly waste fishing nets, by establishing a multi-level cluster to connect and catalyse small and...

Short description of the project: EXTRA-SMEs is a five-year project funded by the Interreg Europe programme, aimed at achieving expansion of rural and coastal SMEs in wider markets for the promotion of their products, through simpler and improved...

The Blue Growth Farm was a four-year project funded by EU Horizon 2020, aimed at developing and validating the design of an automated, modular, and environmentally friendly multi-functional platform for open sea farm installations of the Blue Growth...

Short description of the project: EcoSens Aquamonitrix was a three-year project funded by the LIFE programme, aimed at demonstrating an innovative water quality monitoring device in different environments and climates.

Short description of the project: EXTRA-SMEs project was a five-year project financed by the European Regional Development Fund under the Operational Programme (OP) Peloponnesus 2014-2020, aimed at improving the implementation of regional development...

IMPAQT was a three-year project funded by EU Horizon 2020, aimed at developing and validating a multi-purpose, multi-sensing and multi-functional management platform for sustainable Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) production, in order to...

GAIN was a three-and-a-half-year project funded by EU Horizon 2020, aimed at supporting the ecological intensification of aquaculture in the EU in order to increase the industry’s production and competitiveness, while ensuring sustainability and...

Short description of the project: AQUABIOPROFIT was a four-year project financed by Horizon 2020, aimed at promoting efficient utilisation of European aquaculture, fisheries and agriculture side streams in feeds and nutritional supplement products...

BBF was a one-year project funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), aimed at developing a common understanding of the current status of blue bioeconomy in Europe and at collectively identifying strategic developments, market...

Short description of the project: ARIEL was a two-year project funded by the Interreg ADRION programme, aimed at speeding-up and transferring innovation in two key drivers for the Adriatic and Ionian Regions: small-scale fisheries and aquaculture...

Short description of the project: MATES was a three-year project funded by Erasmus+ Programme, aimed at developing a skills strategy that addresses the main drivers of change to the maritime industry, in particular shipbuilding and offshore renewable...

Short description of the project: MarSP was a two-year project funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), aimed at reinforcing the Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP) processes in the three EU Macaronesian Archipelagos - Azores, Madeira...

Short description of the project: SEATRACES was a three-year project funded by the Interreg Atlantic Area programme, aimed at demonstrating to stakeholders and consumers that labelling and traceability are essential to protect and valorise Atlantic...

Short description of the project: PHAROS4MPAS was a two-year project funded by the Interreg Mediterranean programme, aimed at establishing an integrated framework for recommendations on the necessary practical collaboration between Maritime Protected...

CLAIM is a four-and-a-half-year project funded by EU Horizon 2020, aimed at acting against plastic pollution through innovative technologies, targeting the prevention and in situ management of visible and invisible marine litter in the Mediterranean...