ALLIANCE
The European algae industry has grown significantly over recent decades, primarily serving niche high-value markets such as food supplements and nutraceuticals. However, with the increasing demand for alternative food ingredients and bio-based chemicals—driven by the EU’s push towards a bio-based economy—the market for microalgae-based products is expected to expand. Despite this potential, high production costs and limited market volume remain key barriers to scaling a sustainable, profitable, and circular algae industry.
ALLIANCE aims to overcome these challenges by redefining the microalgae value chain through a multi-product biorefinery approach, expanding the adoption of microalgae-based products in the EU market, improving their cost-effectiveness and sustainability. The goal is to establish algae-based ingredients through multi-product biorefineries for the food, aquafeed, cellular agriculture, and agriculture sectors.
Learn more about ALLIANCE here.
MECCAM
The overall objective of MeCCAM is to develop, implement and recommend climate mitigation and adaptation solutions and increase the resilience and sustainability in the fisheries sector. MeCCAM employs an integrated multi-actor approach to deliver relevant and feasible results to support the fishing industry and policymakers. The outputs include: decision support tools allowing fishers to mitigate and adapt to climate change; innovative fishing gears to improve selectivity, fuel efficiency, and minimise habitat damage; and an environmental impact management software to reduce carbon emissions, and other impacts across the value chain.
MULTIPLY
The MULTIPLY project aims to prove the sustainable and economically viable cultivation of microalgae, coupled with efficient biorefinery processes across Europe. The project explores the cultivation and application of several microalgae species—such as Spirulina, Nannochloropsis, and Tetraselmis—for use in diverse sectors including food, feed, cosmetics, biomaterials, and lubricants.
By testing and optimizing these systems in both Southern (e.g. Spain, Italy) and Northern (e.g. Denmark, Norway) European environments, MULTIPLY intends to:
· Reduce production costs and resource use
· Increase productivity and circularity
· Develop 10 algae-based, mid-price market-ready products
· Improve environmental and economic sustainability
· Promote public acceptance and market readiness
Learn more about MULTIPLY here.
NESBp
The NESBp project supports the Greater North Sea Basin Initiative (GNSBI) in fostering international cooperation for maritime spatial planning (MSP) in the North Sea basin, with close ties to the Baltic Sea region. It aims to strengthen collaboration among North Sea countries and between the North Sea and Baltic Sea regions. By linking GNSBI with HELCOM-VASAB MSP WG, the project promotes knowledge sharing and networking across sea basins to enable strategic, efficient MSP, building on insights from the eMSP NBSR project and other EU Green Deal MSP initiatives.
OCCAM
OCCAM is a pioneering four-year project funded under Horizon Europe. OCCAM aims to equip the European aquaculture sector with innovative, science-based solutions to adapt and mitigate climate change.
OCCAM will develop, test, and upscale technologies and strategies to enhance the sustainability and resilience of aquaculture production systems across Europe. By delivering these solutions, the project will support aquaculture in both adapting to and mitigating the effects of climate change. The OCCAM consortium consists of 22 partners from research, industry, non-profit, and aquaculture sectors from diverse regions, all committed to climate-proofing the aquaculture industry.
Rootlinks
RootLinks is an EU-funded project designed to empower Primary Producers in agriculture, forestry, and blue economy. Its overall objective is to connect and integrate the producers at the European level, reinforcing their key role in circular bio-based economy value chains.
The project is financed by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) and seeks to provide Primary Producers with the necessary tools to support awareness raising, networking, cooperation and capacity building. RootLinks will foster new innovative business models that generate environmental and economic benefits, while strengthening links across the value chain.
Learn more about Rootlinks here.
SEAMPHONI
SEAMPHONI is dedicated to bringing visibility and safeguarding the vast and largely unprotected offshore marine areas. Current approaches to offshore biodiversity mapping are highly dependent on research vessels and are therefore costly and do not allow for continuous monitoring. SEAMPHONI is structured to promote the testing, coupling, and validation of three innovative monitoring solutions (environmental DNA (eDNA), acoustics, and imaging) and to build a shared observing system for scientists, decision-makers, MPA managers, and citizens in the form of an Intelligent Marine Digital Twin interoperable with the European Digital Twin Ocean.
Learn more about SEAMPHONI here.
Stay tuned also for updates on the upcoming project BlueActionBanos!
