Projects

FISH4FISH was a three-year project funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), aimed at developing an innovative and sustainable food packaging from marine biomass waste and biorefinery residues, in order to increase fish shelf-life...

OPENMODE is a two-year project funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), aimed at demonstrating the capacity to carry out large-scale shellfish farming in open waters in three different EU sea basins, thanks to floating modules and...

BIOGEARS was a three-year project funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), aimed at providing the European Aquaculture sector with biobased ropes that are durable, marketable and fit-for-purpose for mussel and seaweed production...

Short description of the project: SEASTAR was a two-year project funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), aimed at exploiting innovative Internet of Underwater Things Technologies and integrating them with last-generation...

Short description of the project: AquaVitae was a four-and-a-half-year project funded by EU Horizon 2020 aimed at increasing aquaculture production in and around the Atlantic Ocean by developing new low trophic species, processes, and products.

Short description of the project: AQUA-FANNG was a four-year project financed by Horizon 2020, aimed at generating genome-wide functional annotation maps for the six commercially most important fish species within European aquaculture and exploiting...

Short description of the project: RENAQUA was a three-year project funded by the EU's Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service, aimed at assessing the potential for co-location of aquaculture and marine energy activities, and identifying...

Short description of the project: OCEANETS was a two-year project financed by EMFF, aimed at preventing, recovering and recycling abandoned fishing gears, with the objective of demonstrating the feasibility of a circular economy model for managing...

EASYFeed was a one-year project funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), aimed at producing organic aquaculture feed formula, in order to bring an innovative sustainable production model to the fish farming sector and offer European...

Short description of the project: HiSea was a two-year project financed by the Horizon 2020 programme aimed at developing, testing and demonstrating information services that provide high resolution data of water quality at sea.

Short description of the project: AquaIMPACT was a four-year project financed by Horizon 2020, aimed at integrating the fields of fish breeding and nutrition to increase the competiveness of EU's aquaculture of Atlantic salmon, rainbow trout...

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...

Short description of the project: AQUA-LIT was a two-year project funded by the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF), aimed at preventing marine litter from entering the sea.

AlgaeDemo was a three-year project funded by the European Maritime Fisheries Fund (EMFF), aimed at demonstrating the economic and environmental viability of seaweed cultivation in Europe, by bringing it to a commercial scale.

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...

Short description of the project: BlueBio was 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...

Short description of the project: FutureEUAqua was 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...

Short description of the project: iFishIENCi was a five-year project funded by Horizon 2020 aimed at developing and demonstrating disruptive IoT/AI-based innovations, considering the feeding value chain as a whole, and addressing four commercially...

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...

Project description: EXTRA‑SMEs was a five‑year Interreg Europe project, co‑financed by the European Regional Development Fund under the Operational Programme (OP) Peloponnesus 2014–2020, aimed at improving regional policies supporting rural and...