Acronym FINDIT
Category
Aquaculture
Title A cutting edge platform for data management and analysis to assist European fish aquaculture in its development towards higher performance and competitiveness Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Collaborative Project targeted to a Special Group (such as SMEs)
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
KBBE – Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
Specific Programme (FP7)
Cooperation
Funding source European Coordinator Catherine Pons Coordinator email secretariat@eatip.eu
Coordinator institution
FEAP - Federation of European Aquaculture Producers (Belgium)
Institutions involved
NA - Bolaks AS (Norway) ,
INVE - Inve Technologies NV (Belgium) ,
NA - Lerøy Midnor AS (Norway) ,
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway) ,
NA - PEPITe SA (Belgium) ,
NA - Selonda Aquacultures SA (Greece) ,
UoC - University of Crete (Greece) ,
Start year 2013 End year 2015 Funding (€) € 1,481,540 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/612958 Summary The idea of developing a systematic approach to collect and analyse hatchery data across sites and companies was conceived during the FineFish project (EU FP6, COLL-CT-2005-012451, ""Improving sustainability of European fish aquaculture by control of malformations""). An innovative IT solution, 'FindIT', was designed to enable sectoral benchmarking, allowing a hatchery to measure its own performance against consolidated data from other hatcheries. No formal tool existed for this approach before FindIT. The FindIT prototype led rapidly to the development of a cloud-based data collection and storage system allowing professional hatcheries not only to organise and store their monitoring data but also to compute other indicators useful for both monitoring and benchmarking of individual hatcheries at a European level. Malformation rate was the main key performance indicator (KPI) for FineFish but it was realised that other KPIs should be considered and integrated in FindIT's capacities, such as resistance to disease, growth rate, morphology, survival etc. - factors that are vital for successful and competitive aquaculture. With extensive data collection and analyses - using innovative data-mining techniques - critical factors can be discovered that explain the variability of these KPIs, which will lead to preventive and corrective actions that will continuously improve competitiveness of hatchery operations and support future strategic decisions. FindIT is a functional prototype but developments are needed to bring the system to a commercial level for use by a widespread community of users. To quantify and fill the actual market gap for such a tool, the applicability of FindIT has to be demonstrated so that operators will fully understand the potential, capabilities and benefits of this innovative solution. The project will study the market potential and prepare a business plan for FindIT, forseeing the creation of a stand-alone activity for its commercial exploitation.
Keywords
Aquaculture management;
Larval rearing;
Technology;
Fish;
Land-based aquaculture;
Prototype;
Fish health;
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