Skip to main content
Go to the home page of the European Commission (opens in new window)
English English
CORDIS - EU research results
CORDIS

Climate-friendly and resilient fisheries through innovation and co-learning

Project description

New technologies for resilient fisheries to climate change

Climate change severely impacts the fishing industry, making adaptations within this sector essential. The EU-funded INFINIFISH project will develop innovative technologies to monitor and mitigate the climate impacts of fishing, while enabling fisheries to adapt to changing conditions. The project will create and validate solutions across the entire fisheries value chain, including fishing gear designed to reduce fuel consumption and minimise carbon resuspension from the seabed, decision support systems for energy-efficient routing and searching, and methods for improved utilisation of catches. Additionally, the project will implement data collection technologies to monitor environmental conditions. Case studies with stakeholder involvement and impact assessments across various European fisheries will inform a policy action plan for local uptake and adaptation of these innovations.

Objective

The INFINIFISH project will create innovations to monitor and mitigate the impacts of fishing on the climate and enable fisheries to adapt to the consequences of climate change. It will develop and validate technological solutions for the entire fisheries value chain, such as:

• fishing gear that reduces fuel consumption and resuspension of carbon from the seabed
• data collection technology to monitor fishing operations, catches, and the environment
• decision support systems that optimise fishing operations with respect to energy efficiency
• fish processing technologies that increase resource utilisation efficiency
• novel products that enable the valorisation of currently discarded resources and new fish species

The project will also investigate the impacts of climate change on ecosystems and fisheries through model studies, and identify effective climate change adaptations and mitigation strategies in fisheries management.

INFINIFISH will carry out case studies in a wide variety of fisheries across Europe to explore and record how collaborative learning by different stakeholder groups can improve the use and uptake of these technical and operational solutions. The result will be a policy action plan that shows how technologies and innovations can be adapted to, and adopted by, particular local and social contexts. This will be key to maximising the impact of INFINIFISH, ensuring that the project will contribute to significant and lasting change in the fishing sector.

Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
This project's classification has been human-validated.

Keywords

Project’s keywords as indicated by the project coordinator. Not to be confused with the EuroSciVoc taxonomy (Fields of science)

Programme(s)

Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.

Topic(s)

Calls for proposals are divided into topics. A topic defines a specific subject or area for which applicants can submit proposals. The description of a topic comprises its specific scope and the expected impact of the funded project.

Funding Scheme

Funding scheme (or “Type of Action”) inside a programme with common features. It specifies: the scope of what is funded; the reimbursement rate; specific evaluation criteria to qualify for funding; and the use of simplified forms of costs like lump sums.

HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation Actions

See all projects funded under this funding scheme

Call for proposal

Procedure for inviting applicants to submit project proposals, with the aim of receiving EU funding.

(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2024-FARM2FORK-02

See all projects funded under this call

Coordinator

SINTEF OCEAN AS
Net EU contribution

Net EU financial contribution. The sum of money that the participant receives, deducted by the EU contribution to its linked third party. It considers the distribution of the EU financial contribution between direct beneficiaries of the project and other types of participants, like third-party participants.

€ 1 201 591,25
Address
PROFESSOR J.H.L. VOGTS VEG 1A
7052 TRONDHEIM
Norway

See on map

Region
Norge Trøndelag Trøndelag
Activity type
Research Organisations
Links
Total cost

The total costs incurred by this organisation to participate in the project, including direct and indirect costs. This amount is a subset of the overall project budget.

€ 1 201 591,25

Participants (16)

My booklet 0 0