Acronym IDREEM
Category
Aquaculture
Title Increasing Industrial Resource Efficiency in European Mariculture Programme FP7
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
FP7 - Collaborative Project (generic)
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
ENVIRONMENT – Environment (including Climate change)
Specific Programme (FP7)
Cooperation
Funding source European Coordinator Adam Hughes Coordinator email adam.hughes@sams.ac.uk
Coordinator institution
SAMS - Scottish Association for Marine Science (United Kingdom)
Institutions involved
NA - Aqua Società Agricola Srl (Italy) ,
DOMMRC - Daithi O'Murchu Marine Research Station (Ireland) ,
NA - ETA Energía, Trasporti, Agricoltura Srl (Italy) ,
GIFAS - Gildeskål Forskningsstasjon (Norway) ,
NA - Leiden University (Netherlands) ,
NA - Longline Environment Ltd (United Kingdom) ,
MER - Marine & Environmental Research Lab Ltd (Cyprus) ,
BIOFORSK - Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research (Norway) ,
NA - Scottish Salmon Company Ltd (United Kingdom) ,
NA - Seawave Fisheries Ltd (Cyprus) ,
NA - Suf Fish Ltd (Israel) ,
UNIGE - University of Genoa (Italy) ,
NA - University of Haifa (Israel) ,
NA - Viking Fish Farms Ltd, Ardtoe Marine Laboratory (United Kingdom) ,
Start year 2012 End year 2016 Funding (€) € 5,771,967 Website https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/308571/it Summary The proposal IDREEM will create smarter greener growth for one of Europe's most important industrial sectors: the aquaculture industry. It will achieve this through taking waste streams that are at present lost to the environment (as pollution) and converting them into secondary raw materials for the production of high value organisms such as seaweed and shellfish. To do this IDREEM will develop, demonstrate and benchmark (against existing production techniques) innovative production technology for the European aquaculture industry. Aquaculture is now a major component of global food security and is the fast growing food production sector globally. However the European industry is stagnating. The industry is facing real questions of economic and environmental sustainability. IDREEM will address these questions by working with a range of SME aquaculture producers across Europe to develop deploy and quantitatively assess the new production technology. Using an integrated approach defining the environmental, economic and social impact of the new production technology, life cycle assessment and life cycle costing will be used to quantify and demonstrate the economic and environmental benefits. Along with this process a combined environmental and economic modelling platform will be used to provide an evidence based decision making framework for aquaculture producers, regulators and policy makers. Throughout the project a dedicated impact coordinator will ensure that the project is fully engaged with the wide range of stakeholders, inviting their participation from the beginning and throughout the project (specifically in the form of a project advisory committee) and ensuring that results are fed back into that community. This will ensure that there is a rapid uptake of the new production technology across the European sector, creating opportunity and support for a range of new SME producers, processors and up the value chain.
(1) To reduce input, maximize resource productivity and minimize waste in European aquaculture through the development, deployment, assessment and monitoring of IMTA technology (WPs 2-4); (2) To reduce farm effluent by converting waste products from one production stage (finfish culture) into secondary raw products in the additional production stages by culturing suspension-feeders, detritivores and macroalgae (WP 5) on site; (3) To demonstrate the combined resource and production efficiency of IMTA as compared to existing monoculture production systems using Life Cycle Assessment (WP 6); (4) To provide the modelling tools for industry and policy makers that enable evidence-based decisions on the impacts of adoption of IMTA given environmental, economic, social, economic and organizational parameters (WP 7); (5) To understand the reasons for low rate of adoption of IMTA in Europe and facilitate the industry-wide full scale adoption of the sustainable aquaculture practice (IMTA) by proposing/developing methods to address barriers (i.e. regulatory, market, social) to this approach (WP 8).
Keywords
Economy;
Open sea aquaculture;
Algae;
Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA);
Aquaculture development;
Environmental impact;
Technology;
Waste valorization;
Shellfish;
Marine Region
66
Cyprus Island (GSA 25)
26
Northwest Coast of Scotland and North Ireland (27.VIa)
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Marine Region Map
