The Final GRASS Conference: Making Waves across the Baltic
The GRASS final conference was a great success, with over 250 participants over the two-day online event. We'd like to say a massive thank you to all of the speakers and also the moderators who pitched in and made the event such a success.
The four sessions included brilliant presentations from key players across the Baltic Sea Region, from the Kieler Meeresfarm in Germany to the CONTRA project presenting the beachcast biogas fermentation methodology, as well as business pitches from exciting new Baltic businesses using macroalgae.
We will soon make the presentations and videos available on this page, so until then - watch this space!
Presentations Day 1:
- Algae in the EU policy context - Maris Stulgis, DG MARE
- Safe Seaweed Coalition - Vincent Doumeizel, Lloyd’s Register Foundation/ UN Global Compact
- SUBMARINER Roadmap 2021-2027 on macroalgae and beach wrack – Angela Schultz-Zheden & Efthalia Arvaniti SUBM
- The Baltic macroalgae market – Tomasz Kulikowski, National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Poland
- Unlocking the potential of using macroalgae for food purposes – Moona Rahikainen, University of Turku, Finland
- Fucoidans in ocular health – bio-activities with high (market) potential - Alexa Klettner, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Germany
- Why we invest in seaweed – Linn Anne Bjelland Brunborg, Orkla Ocean, Norway
- Algenladen - Michael Hofmann, Germany
Presentations Day 2:
- Mapping macroalgal production and farming challenges in the Baltic Sea region – Francisco Rafael Barboza Gonzalez, University of Tartu, Estonia & Daniel Franzen, KTH, Sweden
- Macroalgae production in GRASS and SUSCULT countries: Issues on regulating a noble blue biomass – Teresa Camarena Gómez, Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Finland
- Seaweed for food, feed, climate and the marine environment – Annette Bruhn, Aarhus University, Denmark
- Pure Algae Danmark - Esben Rimi Christiansen, Denmark
- Nordic Seafarm – Simon Johansson, Sweden
- Environmental impact of macroalgae cultivation and wild harvesting in the Baltic Sea – Ieva Barda, Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology
- Sea Multi-use with seaweed aquaculture – Eef Browers, North Sea Farmers, the Netherlands
- Havhøst – Joachim Hjerl, Denmark
- Kieler Meeresfarm – Tim Stauffenberger, Germany
- Socio economic benefits of beach wrack harvest & management - Hanna Nathaniel, KTH, Sweden
- Closing the nutrient loop with harvesting beach wrack and applying digestate on land - Jörgen Held, Baltic Energy Innovation Centre, Sweden
- Value creation and opportunities in beach wrack management & the formation of a beach wrack Network- Jens Almqvist, Krinova, Sweden & Jane Hofmann, EUCC, Germany
- Origin By Ocean – Mikael Westerlund, Finland
