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Reforms in regulation are needed to enable the blue bioeconomy, argues Ingeborg Korme. The blue bioeconomy is an essential factor in our sustainable future, but we are still just scratching the surface of what is possible in the aquatic domain. It is widely recognised that to achieve a fully circularaquaculture and blue bioeconomy, we need… Continue reading The case for change – the need for regulatory reform to enable circularity in the blue bioeconomy

Under the third and final additional call of the BlueBio Cofund, 13 projects were selected to amplify project reach and knowledge impact. The call is a smaller and shorter call, to enable a targeted funding call to organisations already participating in a BlueBio project. Under the third and final additional call of the BlueBio Cofund,… Continue reading BlueBio Cofund amplifies project reach and knowledge impact by funding 13 projects

The BlueBio consortium, together with project coordinators of cofunded projects and those who coordinated projects from the 1st additional call met in Lisbon 6 – 7 June for an end-term and mid-term evaluation of the projects. Experts attended the meetings and gave their remarks after each presentation. Altogether 29 funded projects were presented and all… Continue reading BlueBio end-term and mid-term meeting in Lisbon 6-7 June 2023

The BlueBio Cofund Mid-term and End-term meeting will be held on the 6th and 7th of June at the Lisbon, Olissippo Oriente Hotel in Portugal. Meeting characteristics: Here you can find the draft agenda:

3-days Advanced Training course in Bio-Refinery technologies on fishery side streams Resilient Blue Bio-refinery technologies: innovative solutions to valorise fishery side streams 24-26 October 2023 – NTNU – Department of Biological Sciences Ålesund, Norway The course on “Resilient Blue Bio-refinery technologies: innovative solutions to valorise fishery side streams”, an advanced training initiative funded by ERA-NET Cofund… Continue reading ANNOUNCEMENT

The Blue Bioeconomy ERA-NET Cofund is launching a blue bioeconomy research agenda as a result of a foresight implemented in 2022. The foresight was part of Blue Bioeconomy ERA-NET Cofund’s mission of strengthening Europe’s position in the blue bioeconomy, working with facilitators Luc van Hoof and Sarah Smith from the European Fisheries and Aquaculture Research… Continue reading Towards a blue bioeconomy research agenda

It is with mixed feelings that we announce the retirement of Kristin Thorud, coordinator of BlueBio. Kristin´s work has been invaluable over the years, and we are both happy for her and sad to see her go. Kristin will hand over her tasks and her position as coordinator of BlueBio to Ingeborg Korme, as the… Continue reading Kristin Thorud has announced her retirement

The 2nd additional call kick-off meeting was held on the 8th of February 2023.  All funded projects from the 2nd additional call were present at an online kick-off meeting in the beginning of February. The main objective was to give a short presentation of the projects and to exchange ideas and create synergy between partners… Continue reading 2nd additional call kick-off meeting

Advanced BlueBio Training Course: “Blue Bio-refinery technologies: from research to the industry with applications on products and biomaterial from algal biomass and sidestreams of fisheries and aquaculture”. The training course was co-organised by the National Research Council (CNR Italy) and the University of Foggia (Italy), with the patronage of the European Society of Marine Biotechnology… Continue reading Advanced BlueBio Training Course

BlueBio participated in the 1st Ocean training conference, which was held at Ghent University on 9th-11th January 2023. The 1st International Conference on Ocean Education and Training 2023 (OceanTraining2023) is an initiative of the OceanTraning project, which with the support of Erasmus+ EU Programme joined the effort of a consortium of 4 European universities to… Continue reading BlueBio at the 1st Ocean training conference