Acronym RI SEAWEED
Category
Marine Biotechnology
Title Norwegian Test Center for Seaweed Cultivation and Utilization Technologies Programme National Programme
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National Coordinator Aleksander Handå Coordinator email aleksander.handa@sintef.no
Coordinator institution
NA
Institutions involved
NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway) ,
Start year 2022 End year 2031 Funding (€) € 8,400,000 Website https://prosjektbanken.forskningsradet.no/en/project/FORISS/322258?Kilde=FORISS&distribution=Ar&chart=bar&calcType=funding&Sprak=no&sortBy=date&sortOrder=desc&resultCount=30&offset=0&TemaEmne.2=Marin+bioteknologi&source=FORISS&projectId=321415 Summary "Cultivation of the oceans is a key requirement for future sustainable and efficient utilisation of the ocean resources required to meet demands for food, feed, materials, and energy for a growing global population. Norway, with one of the world's longest coastlines, and great expectations being linked to the emergence of seaweed cultivation as a new bioeconomy, can take a leading role. The Norwegian Test Center for Seaweed Cultivation and Utilization Technologies – RI SEAWEED will address this by creating a world-leading research infrastructure for seaweed science and technology.
RI SEAWEED will contribute to advance seaweed research by providing a holistic value-chain approach offering a unique, integrated, full-scale technology platform and interdisciplinary knowledge hubs at SINTEF and NTNU in close collaboration with industry.
The infrastructure will consist of land farms and coastal and offshore sea farms for seaweed cultivation and an integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) site for salmon and seaweed.
The sea farms and surrounding sea areas will be visualized with ocean models coupled to a sensor network for surveillance of environmental variables, uptake of nutrients and CO2 and growth of seaweed at the farms.
A laboratory for robotics and automation of land and sea farms and a mobile container with equipment for pre-processing, stabilization and storage of harvested seaweed will be built, and equipment for processing and advanced analytical tools for product development and quality testing will be installed.
RI SEAWEED will be in line with national and European strategies for marine research and the ambitions of the High-level panel for ocean economy, which identifies seaweed cultivation as an opportunity for a new blue bioeconomy and movement towards a low-emissions society. Accordingly, RI SEAWEED will contribute to meet several of the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the targets set by the Paris Agreement."
Keywords
Land-based aquaculture;
Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA);
Storage;
Product development;
Algae;
Fish;
Salmon;
Bioproduct;
Open sea aquaculture;
Bioprospecting;
Technology;
Sensors;
Marine Region
41
Norwegian Sea (27.IIa)
13
Northern North Sea (27.IVa)
14
Skagerrak, Kattegat (27.IIIa)
3
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