Acronym AQUAEXCEL
Category
Aquaculture
Title Aquaculture infrastructures for excellence in European fish research Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Research for SMEs
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
INFRASTRUCTURES – Research Infrastructures
Specific Programme (FP7)
Capacities
Funding source European Coordinator Marc Vandeputte Coordinator email Marc.Vandeputte@jouy.inra.fr
Coordinator institution
INRA - French National Institute for Agricultural Research (France)
Institutions involved
AquaTT - AquaTT UETP Ltd (Ireland) ,
IFREMER - French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea (France) ,
UGent - Ghent University (Belgium) ,
IT - Inra Transfert SA (France) ,
IMR - Institute of Marine Research (Norway) ,
NA - National Research Council - Institute of Marine Engineering (Italy) ,
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway) ,
NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) ,
HAKI - Research Institute for Fisheries, Aquaculture and Irrigation (Hungary) ,
SINTEF-SFH - SINTEF Fisheries and Aquaculture (Norway) ,
CSIC - Spanish National Research Council (Spain) ,
DLO - Stichting Dienst Landbouwkundig Onderzoek (Netherlands) ,
ULPGC - University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain) ,
USB - University of South Bohemia in Ceske Budejovice (Czech Republic) ,
UoS - University of Stirling (United Kingdom) ,
WUR - Wageningen University and Research (Netherlands) ,
Start year 2011 End year 2015 Funding (€) € 11,845,203 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/262336 Summary Aquaculture is a pan-European production activity that includes a wide range of fish and mollusc species. It has grown rapidly from a cottage industry in the 1960s into an industrial sector that contributes substantially to the European Union's goal of becoming the most competitive and dynamic knowledge based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion. Today, European aquaculture technology is one of the areas where Europe has the edge and can make a difference in the future.
Nevertheless, the European aquaculture industry is facing increasing challenges due to a more demanding and selective market combined with competition from outside the EU. These complex challenges require technological solutions that can only be solved with the contribution of high level experts and experienced professionals, and with excellent research facilities, outstanding services, and the right biological resources.
AQUAEXCEL aims to integrate key aquaculture research infrastructures across Europe, in order to promote their coordinated use and development. AQUAEXCEL will coordinate the highest class European aquaculture research facilities covering the entire range of production systems (recirculation, flow-through, cage, hatchery and pond systems), environments (freshwater and marine, cold and warm water), scales (small, medium and industrial scale), fish species (salmon, trout, sea bass, sea bream, cod, carp), and fields of expertise (nutrition, physiology, health and welfare, genetics, monitoring and management technologies and engineering). AQUAEXCEL will: (1) Link and coordinate key research infrastructures in Europe: cage, recirculation and hatchery aquaculture systems, land and sea based, fresh and salt water installations in order to create the basis for synergistic research projects; (2) Provide research teams with access to a wide range of the state-of-the-art infrastructures covering all important aquaculture species, systems, environments and expertise; (3) Increase resource sharing and standardization between partners, notably but not exclusively for fish models and experimental methods developed in-house; (4) Stimulate innovation through transfer of knowledge, harmonisation and development of best practices across fields of research, production systems and species; (5) Execute joint research and development activities designed to improve the services currently provided by the infrastructures (remote access and monitoring, more accurate performance evaluation, limitation of live animals use, applicability of results at industry scale, development of biological models); (6) Bridge the gap between the scientific community and the industry through stimulation of problem-based research and enhanced knowledge transfer. AQUAEXCEL will facilitate a coherent development of the aquaculture research facilities for which there is a strong demand from the public and private sectors of aquaculture research, which have to work towards sustainable production of high quality seafood with reduced environmental impact.
Keywords
Land-based aquaculture;
Engineering;
Seabass;
Cage aquaculture;
Fish;
Seabream;
Aquaculture industry;
Fish biology;
Trout;
Aquaculture development;
Salmon;
Guidelines;
Cod;
Fish health;
Recirculating systems;
Open sea aquaculture;
Technology;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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