Acronym InSacco
Category
Aquaculture
Title InSacco – validation, industrialization and commercialization Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
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Specific Programme (FP7)
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Funding source National Coordinator Kaia Kjølbo Rød Coordinator email kaia.rod@ardinnovation.no
Coordinator institution
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Start year 2022 End year 2024 Funding (€) € 499,900 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/project/FORISS/333859 Summary InSacco is a new system for environmental monitoring. Use of InSacco will reduce todays monitoring costs per sample and the analysis time from 6 weeks to 48 hours. InSacco represents a completely new concept in environmental monitoring that can be extended to many fields of application, such as the monitoring of aquatic environments and antibiotic resistance in hospitals wastewater, to name a few. The technology works as a reliable proxy for the environmental status by capturing a high percentage and variety of bacteria present in the environment sample device is placed. The aim is for InSacco to replace sediment sampling and manual counting of macroorganisms. The challenges in marine monitoring increases due to e.g. toxic algae blooms, marine hypoxic dead zones and acidification, related to the expansion of the aquaculture industry. Future regulations may also require continuous and/or frequent monitoring due to quickly harmful changes occurring in aquatic systems. Thus; aquatic industries (marine farming, oil and gas, waterworks, etc.) will benefit from InSacco as a fast, cheap and precise monitoring technology detecting potential problems before they have time to inflict real damage.
In this verification project we will focus on validating the link between the InSacco proxy collection, detection and analysis of environmental bacteria with the known environmental status at several aquatic test sites. Validation of InSacco devices to be; 1) easily deployed, 2) allow for DNA analyses, 3) use high through-put sequencing and 4) greatly reduce waiting time and cost, represents a paradigm shift for aquatic monitoring. This project will focus on the marine farming industry by comparing actual manual sediment sampling and manual counting of macroorganisms with sampling with InSacco devices under fish cages. This will allow us to confirm that InSacco is a method that reveals true environmental status.
Keywords
Environmental impact;
Monitoring;
Open sea aquaculture;
Genetic;
Cage aquaculture;
Bacteria;
Fish;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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