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The Governing Board meeting was held in Barcelona 24th of November 2022. This was the first time that the members of the Governing Board met in person since end of 2021. The meeting started in the afternoon of the 23rd with a presentation of the findings from the Foresight workshop. Luc van Hof presented the… Continue reading Governing Board meeting

The Final BlueBio Foresight workshop was held in Barcelona 22.- 23. of November 2022. The BlueBio Foresight team continued their work on developing the future European Strategic Knowledge and Innovation agenda. Different scenarios of future „worlds“ were discussed under the direction of Luc van Hof, Executive secretary of EFARO, who is leading team work.  … Continue reading The Foresight workshop

This third additional call is open to organisations that are part of any project consortium that is currently funded by the BlueBio ERA-Net Cofund and that are funded by one of the BlueBio partners that are providing funding to this third additional call. The following partners are providing funding for this third additional call: Iceland,… Continue reading BlueBio Third Additional Call – Amplifying project reach and knowledge impact

In October 2022, 26 BlueBio funded projects met to discuss opportunities for commercialisation support, as the first cohort of projects are entering their final year. This event was the fourth thematic “e-coffee” meeting organised by the BlueBio ERA-Net. How to support ERA-Net projects? The ERA-Net Cofund Blue Bioeconomy (BlueBio) supports the blue bioeconomy in Europe… Continue reading Increasing impact – supporting commercialisation in BlueBio projects

The Hamburg Harbour Festival was held from 16.-18. of September 2022 for the harbor’s 833rd birthday. Everyone was welcomed onboard MS Meerkatze. The MS Meerkatze is a fishery protection vessel of the German Coast Guard. The owner is the Federal Agency for Agriculture and Food (BLE), which also operates the vessel. Among other posters the… Continue reading The Hamburg Harbour Festival

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