Last June a kick-off meeting for the cofunded projects of the first cofund call took place online. All 19 projects were presented on this online meeting. We have now published fact sheets for all these projects here.
The first joint BlueBio call is supported by European 16 countries as well as the EU. All partner countries contributed to the call: Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Malta, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sweden. The countries will provide 19 of the € 25 million for the projects, and the European Commission will top up with 6 million euros.
The cofunded projects are:
| AquaHeal3D | 3D Printed Biomarine Wound Healing Accelerant |
| AquaHealth Microalgae Microbiomes | A natural source for the prevention and treatment of diseases in aquaculture |
| AquaTech4Feed | Novel sustainable aquaculture technologies for the production of innovative feeds for improved fish stocks |
| BESTBROOD | Identification of broodstock performance indicators and markers to boost the aquaculture of emerging fish species |
| BIOSHELL | Recycling crustaceans shell wastes for developing biodegradable wastewater cleaning composites |
| BIOZOOSTAIN | Sustainable utilization of zooplankton as by-products |
| BlueCC | Commercial exploitation of marine collagen and chitin from marine sources |
| CASEAWA | Advanced materials using biogenic calcium carbonate from seashell |
| DIGIRAS | Optimizing land-based fish production in next generation digital recirculating aquaculture systems |
| ImprovAFish | Improving aquaculture sustainability by modulating the feed-microbiome-host axis in Fish |
| InEVal | Increasing Echinoderm Value Chains |
| MARIKAT | New catalytic enzymes and enzymatic processes from the marine microbiome for refining marine seaweed biomass |
| MedSpon | Characterization of new antibiotic principles against WHO priority pathogens of sustainable produced marine sponges for nutraceutical applications |
| MINERVA | Marine Innovation using Novel Enzymes for waste Reduction and Valorisation of Algal biomass |
| PlastiSea | Novel enhanced bioplastics from sustainable processing of seaweed |
| RASbiome | Microbial management in RAS for sustainable aquaculture production |
| SIDESTREAM | Secondary bio-production of low trophic organisms utilizing side streams from the Blue and Green sectors to produce novel feed ingredients for European aquaculture |
| SNAP | Seaweeds for novel applications and products |
| SuReMetS | From sustainable resources to novel marine nutraceuticals for the management of metabolic syndrome |