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3-days Advanced Training course in Marine Biotechnologies (January 2023) The course on “Blue Bio-refinery technologies: from research to the industry with applications on products and biomaterial from algal biomass and sidestreams of fisheries and aquaculture” is supported by ERA-NET Cofund on Blue Bioeconomy Unlocking the Potential of Aquatic Bioresources (BlueBio), co-organised with the National Research… Continue reading ANNOUNCEMENT

The BlueBio Call Committee has selected seven project proposals from the 2nd Additional Call for funding. The call aimed to address the funding gaps in the blue bioeconomy value chain on resource management, and market and socioeconomic aspects. The call will facilitate research and innovation to underpin sustainable and circular management and use of natural… Continue reading BlueBio Cofund Funds Seven Projects in 2nd Additional Call

The last week of May, the Blue Bioeconomy ERA-NET Cofund gathered key stakeholders to kick-off a foresight to develop a European Strategic Knowledge and Innovation Agenda within the blue bioeconomy. As part of Blue Bioeconomy ERA-NET Cofund’s mission of strengthening Europe’s position in the blue bioeconomy, BlueBio is implementing a foresight in 2022, working with facilitators Luc… Continue reading Meeting of stakeholders in the blue bioeconomy

In celebration of World Oceans Day, 8 June 2022 at 13:30 CEST, JPI Oceans will host a special Zoom and Facebook Live session focusing on the potential of ingredients sourced from the sea to heal our wounds. The event will welcome guest speaker Karin Gilljam, coordinator of the BlueBio ERA-NET Cofund project AquaHeal3D. Dr Gilljam is the Chief Science… Continue reading Aqua-healing: can marine ingredients fix our wounds? JPI Oceans Live session

On 8-9 March the 19 projects from the BlueBio Cofunded Call, met online for their mid-term meeting. The mid-term meeting was the culmination of the mid-term evaluation of the projects, one and a half years into their duration. The projects of the Cofunded Call were all launched during spring 2020 with a kick-off in June… Continue reading Successful mid-term meeting

On January 26th the newly appointed BlueBio Advisory Board had their first meeting. The board is appointed from 01.12.2021 until 31.05.2024, which is the end of the BlueBio ERA-NET Cofund. The aim of the BlueBio Advisory Board is to support the BlueBio Cofund in the final 2,5 years. The board will help BlueBio make strategic… Continue reading Successful first BlueBio Advisory Board meeting

Údarás Na Gaeltachta, Marine Innovation Development Centre & Marine Institute Invites you to the online event: Blue Bioeconomy: Unlocking the commercial potential. Join us for the second event in the series “Blue Bioeconomy”, where we focus on unlocking the commercial potential. Learn more about the companies operating in the blue biotechnology sector, and gain some… Continue reading Blue Bioeconomy: Unlocking the commercial potential

In the 2nd additional call 20 pre-proposals were submitted. In the beginning of December the BlueBio Consortium decided that 19 pre-proposals were to be invited to the full proposal stage. The total requested funding of submitted projects is € 21,05 million with a National commitment of around € 7 million. Size of consortium in the… Continue reading 19 pre-proposals selected in the 2nd additional call

The ERA NET BlueBio cofunded project Blue CC revolves around Commercial exploitation of marine collagen and chitin from marine sources. You can read all about the Project under selected projects on this website by clicking here: Blue CC You can visit the project’s webpage here: BlueCC.eu The video is very informative and is available with… Continue reading The BlueBio cofunded project Blue CC has released a new informative video

Celebrating its 10th anniversary JPI Oceans launches a photo and art competition, honouring our marine environment and the scientists working tirelessly to understand it.   The competition is organized in two categories: the open competition and the JPI Oceans projects competition. For each category a top three will be selected with the winner being awarded a… Continue reading JPI OCEANS ART & PHOTO AWARDS