EU sister projects join forces on social media during Aquaculture Europe 2021
This week, FutureEUAqua and our 3 sister projects, NewTechaqua, AquaImpact and iFISHienci, are all represented at the Aquaculture Europe 2021 conference in Madeira.
In addition, we have joined forces on social media, and will launch a Twitter Campaign on aquaculture innovations during the conference. The aim is also to better communicate and disseminate our combined results so that they can directly serve the interest of the aquaculture stakeholders.
If you want to be amongst the first ones who will be informed, follow the projects on Twitter, follow the hashtags #AE21MAD, #Aquaculture4EU and have a look at our websites.
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Register for the inaugrual ‘On The Horizon’ webinar
On Wednesday 29th September, FutureEUAqua is co-organising a webinar together with EATiP and Horizon 2020 sister projects AquaImpact, iFishIENCi, NewTechAqua and Aqua Excel 3.0.
The webinar is the first in a series aiming to disseminate specific aquaculture project outputs from the EU Horizon Framework programmes and demonstrating support for key objectives including the Strategic Guidelines for competitive and sustainable aquaculture in the EU, the Blue Economy, the European Green Deal and Farm 2 Fork Strategies.
The forum is organised with the support of the Federation of European Aquaculture Producers.
Do you want to attend? Please register here.
Wednesday 29 September:
Agenda (10:00 – 12:00)
Welcome by the EATIP General Secretary, Mr. David Bassett
Introduction by the FEAP President, Mrs. Lara Barazi.
Virtual Aquaculture Laboratory for optimizing experiments with fish and water treatment setups.
Finn Olav Bjørnson | SINTEF Ocean
Dietary effects on growth, survival and behavioural responses in lumpfish (Cyclopterus lumpus L.) larvae.
Ibon García Gallego | ULPGC
Q&A and interactive Mentimeter
Potential of novel and circular based economy raw materials as main ingredients 
in salmon diets.
Katerina Kousoulaki | NOFIMA
Improving resource efficiency and disease resistance of farmed fish 
by selective breeding.
Antti Kause | Luke – Natural Resources Institute Finland
Genetic breeding approach to increase efficiency, 
reduction, and sustainability.
Julianna Kobolak | Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (MATE)
Industry data for improved management
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Björgólfur Hávarðsson | The Seafood Innovation Cluster Norway
Q&A and interactive Mentimeter
Webinar conclusions
Online communication and dissemination at Aquaculture Europe 2020
European Aquaculture Society (EAS) has annually organized a congress in which industry, scientists and policy makers meet face-to-face. In 2020, the congress was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and organized in April 2021 as an on-line meeting with pre-recorded videos.
AquaIMPACT, FutureEUAqua, NewTechAqua and iFishIENCi projects are funded from the Horizon 2020 Innovation Action call Sustainable European Aquaculture 4.0: Nutrition and Breeding Innovations. These projects complement each other to develop more sustainable aquaculture in EU. The four projects are also communicating and disseminating the project outcomes together.
The four projects were present in the Aquaculture Europe online congress. This provided a unique opportunity to document the progress and the results of these projects. The following AquaIMPACT Newsletter 1/2021 summarizes the contributions of the four projects.
Click this link or the image below to read the newsletter:
Sustainable seafood on the agenda at the 2nd International Ocean Governance Forum
DG MARE is organizing the 2nd International Ocean Governance Forum on 14-16 December. It includes a workshop on sustainable seafood. More information here: https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/maritimeforum/en/frontpage/1628.
JOINT SESSION WITH AquaIMPACT and iFishIENCi AT THE UPCOMING EAS CONFERENCE
On 9 October 2019, at the European Aquaculture Society (EAS) conference in Berlin (https://www.aquaeas.eu/) FutureEUAqua, AquaIMPACT and iFishIENCi will hold a joint half-day session. All three projects will provide an overview on their activities and some of the results available so far. The joint session will highlight the synergies and complementarity between the projects.
When: 9 October 2019
EAS session: Sustainable European aquaculture 4.0: nutrition and breeding innovations
AquaIMPACT:
- AquaIMPACT – genomic and nutritional innovations for genetically superior farmed fish
- Development of fish feeds and feeding strategies for genetically superior fish from breeding programs
- The impact of genomic selection in commercial breeding programs for four important species in European aquaculture
iFishIENCi:
- iFishIENCi – general overview
- Concept paper on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
- Concept paper on data modeling for aquaculture (to be confirmed)
FutureEUAqua:
- FutureEUAqua – future growth in sustainable, resilient and climate friendly organic and conventional European aquaculture
- Feed and nutrition in organic aquaculture
- Power calculations for optimisation of the experimental design to detect g x e: salmon experiments in FuturEUAqua
- The role of internet of things for healthy fish and environment in the European aquaculture
FutureEUAqua kick-off meeting
The EU project FutureEUAqua was kicked off on 11 – 12 December 2018, at Nofima Ås, Norway. 32 partners from 9 countries were represented when 50 participants found their way in the pre-Christmas period to an inspiring and promising project start-up meeting.
At the two-day meeting, all work-packages presented their plans and there were many fruitful and inspiring scientific discussions during all presentations. The project officer also attended the meeting and gave a presentation where she, amongst other good points encouraged keeping focus on the impact through the project. The second day was devoted to parallel workshops in the different work packages, thus enabling a real start of the work.
FutureEUAqua will work for a future-oriented and sustainable organic and conventional aquaculture production, and will work throughout the value chain from genetics, alternative feed ingredients, monitoring of health and welfare, innovative products and packaging methods and optimal production systems. The project will also work on consumer perceptions and regulations, as well as dissemination and training of a wide range of stakeholders.
Picture : Reidun Kraugerud ©Nofima
Funded by:
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 817737
