Acronym BlueCC
Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Commercial exploitation of marine collagen and chitin from marine sources Programme International Cooperation
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
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Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
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Funding source National-European Coordinator Runar Gjerp Coordinator email runar.gjerp.solstad@nofima.no
Coordinator institution
NOFIMA - Norwegian Institute of Food, Fisheries and Aquaculture Research (Norway)
Institutions involved
BBA - BLUEBIO ALLIANCE (Portugal) ,
NA - Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) ,
EV ILVO - Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Belgium) ,
IME - Fraunhofer Institute for Molecular Biology and Applied Ecology (Germany) ,
UGent - Ghent University (Belgium) ,
CNR - National Research Council (Italy) ,
NA - PharmaTech AS (Norway) ,
Start year 2020 End year 2022 Funding (€) € 1,940,882 Website https://bluebioeconomy.eu/commercial-exploitation-of-marine-collagen-and-chitin-from-marine-sources/ Summary Over the coming decades, the world will witness increased competition for limited and finite natural resources, e.g. to feed the 9 billion global population by 2050 and to handle changed demographics. An aging population requires new solutions to add life quality to those
extra years, in fighting aging diseases and related processes. Bio-waste is estimated at up to 138 million tons per year in the EU.
Additionally, there are large amounts of underutilised animal species, such as invasive marine species causing devastation to local ecosystems. These two issues represent not only problems, but also opportunities for innovative actions in the EU to better develop what is
currently wasted or underutilised.
The BlueCC project aim to take underutilised species such as invasive marine species, by-catch and cleaner fish from the aquaculture industry, to develop new marine ingredients and products, with significantly reduced impact on the environment. The specific focus will be on sustainable exploitation of collagen and chitin resources produced by jellyfish, starfish and cleaner fish, and invasive crabs respectively.
To succeed with product development of research-intense products such as chitin and collagen, we will apply a strong emphasis on market needs and insights throughout the project. BlueCC will be carried out by an interdisciplinary team and is divided into six main work packages addressing market driven concept development, sustainable chitin, chitosan and collagen demonstrators, health effects as well as characterization of novel marine ingredients and finally, commercialisation feasibility in an RRI framework.
Altogether, BlueCC will in a sustainable and efficient manner exploit underutilized marine raw materials, from laboratory to prototype demonstration, to reach collagen and chitin-based bioactive demonstrators with potential commercial uses reaching the Technology Readiness Level 7.
Keywords
Bioactive compounds;
Algae;
Sustainability;
Biomaterial;
Fish;
Marine Region
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Not associated to marine areas
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