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🤝Embarking together: kick-off meeting 📍The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership kick-off meeting for funded projects (2023 Joint Call) took place in Madrid, 25-26 September 2024. Together project coordinator Katerina Kousoulaki and EU-Project Manager Anne Risbråthe both from Nofima participated in the kick-off meeting. 🔷There were 59 participants from the funding agencies and the 19 funded projects of the first SBEP call. After the meeting there was time for a visit to the Prado museum and Plaza mayor🥳 #BlueeconomyEU

Meet our project partners 😀 Seagarden Algikey, Algae Based Solutions Instituto Superior de Agronomia Italian National Research Council Lund University A4F-Algae for Future University of Valencia And coordinator: Nofima Coordinator Katerina Kousoulaki and WP-leaders and key staff: Tone Aspevik Oda Bjørnsborg Geir Åsmund Myge Hansen Alessio Adamiano Paola Ziosi Aleksander Giwercman Christos Tsatsanis Francisco Jose Barba Orellana Sara Badenes L. Tiago Guerra Anabela Reymundo Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership #BlueeconomyEU

A Blue way to a sustainable Europe🔷 ♻️We will use low-value animal feed ingredients or currently wasted biomass to produce healthy food ingredients and high-value products for human consumption. 💦In this project we use high-quality proteins and bioactives from European aquaculture and fisheries sidestreams. 🍃We combine these sidestreams with microalgae cultivation systems for applications in nutritional supplements, innovative food, cosmetics, biomaterials, and animal feed.  🎯The project aims to promote the efficient utilisation of biomasses, and with a food-first-zero-waste approach. We aim to minimize waste, the use of resources and pollution. 💡When utilising the biomasses in combination with microalgae, we will create interesting products with potential health benefits. Through the project we will develop several products🚀 These products will be documented through feeding, lab, sensory, consumer and clinical trials. The project will address challenges associated with taste, odour, bioactivity, safety, and consumer acceptance, to ensure that products are of high quality and can be effectively brought to the market. Katerina Kousoulaki from Nofima is the project coordinator. This project is Co-funded by the European Union. Norges forskningsråd Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership #BlueEconomyEU Partners: Formas, a Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development Agencia Estatal de Investigacion Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) Seagarden Photo: Helge Skodvin