Acronym GRASS
Category
Aquaculture
Title Growing algae sustainably in the Baltic Sea Programme Interreg V
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)
NA
Funding source European Coordinator Fredrik Gröndahl Coordinator email fredrik.grondahl@abe.kth.se
Coordinator institution
KTH - Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
Institutions involved
SYKE - Finnish Environment Institute (Finland) ,
NA - Kurzeme Planning Region (Latvia) ,
LHEI - Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology (Latvia) ,
NMFRI - National Marine Fisheries Research Institute (Poland) ,
SUBMARINER Network - SUBMARINER Network for Blue Growth (Germany) ,
UT - University of Tartu (Estonia) ,
UTU - University of Turku (Finland) ,
UU - Uppsala University (Sweden) ,
Start year 2019 End year 2021 Funding (€) € 2,001,258 Website https://keep.eu/projects/20104/Growing-Algae-Sustainably-i-EN/ Summary "GRASS aims to close the legislative gap for macroalgae cultivation in order to facilitate its introduction to the market as food, energy and consumables, such as plastics. The project maps possible sites for macroalgae cultivation and harvesting, which include implications for spatial planning. It also provides public authorities with training on the licensing, production and use of macroalgae.
Macroalgae production is an upcoming sector for growing biomass for producing food, consumables - such as plastics - and energy without competing for arable land, depleting fresh water and using non-renewable fertiliser. However, the sector is still in its infancy in the Baltic Sea Region and there is a lack of in-depth and wide-spread knowledge on the potential benefits of macroalgae production. To deal with this challenge, GRASS aims to raise awareness and build capacity on macroalgae cultivation, harvesting and use among public authorities and other relevant stakeholders across the region. Public authorities, ministries, planning regions and counties play a crucial role in promoting macroalgae as they are the main legislative bodies that also control much of the national and regional funding."
Keywords
Open sea aquaculture;
Spatial planning;
Aquaculture development;
Policy;
Algae;
Economy;
Marine Region
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East of Gotland or Gulf of Riga (27.IIId.28)
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Southern Central Baltic-West (27.IIId.25)
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Baltic West of Bornholm (27.IIId.24)
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Southern Central Baltic-East (27.IIId.26)
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Gulf of Finland (27.IIId.32)
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Skagerrak, Kattegat (27.IIIa)
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Marine Region Map
