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Curing EU aquaculture by co-creating health and welfare innovations

Descripción del proyecto

Participación de las partes interesadas para mejorar la salud de los animales acuáticos

El marisco de piscifactoría es una importante fuente de proteínas para la alimentación con una huella de emisiones baja. Sin embargo, el control eficaz y rentable de los patógenos representa un reto fundamental para el sector, en el que existen diversos sistemas de producción y especies. El equipo del proyecto Cure4Aqua, financiado con fondos europeos, mejorará la salud y el bienestar de los animales acuáticos y respaldará una producción de marisco respetuosa con el medio ambiente, integradora, segura y saludable. En el proyecto Cure4Aqua, participarán las principales partes interesadas en el desarrollo de vacunas rentables para prevenir enfermedades causadas por cinco patógenos de importancia económica para la acuicultura de la Unión Europea. Los investigadores de Cure4Aqua identificarán marcadores con capacidad diagnóstica para integrarlos en programas de cría selectiva y desarrollar soluciones innovadoras de base biológica como alternativa a los antibióticos para controlar los patógenos de los peces.

Objetivo

Farmed seafood is an important source of protein for food and feeds with a low-carbon footprint which has an important role to play in helping to build a sustainable food system. A strategic and long-term approach for the sustainable growth of a resilient EU aquaculture is, therefore, more relevant today than ever. However, the efficient and cost-effective control of pathogens remains among the main challenges for the sector, particularly relevant for Europe, where there is a great variety of species and production systems, which hinders the implementation of good husbandry practices tailored to each aquatic species. Through active engagement with key stakeholders, Cure4Aqua aims to jointly improve the resilience of EU aquaculture under environmental, biological, and socio-economic stress, by improving aquatic animal health and welfare and supporting the environmentally friendly, inclusive, safe, and healthy production of seafood. Cure4Aqua will do so by 1) developing cost-effective vaccines to prevent disease caused by 5 pathogens of economic significance to EU aquaculture; 2) Identifying markers with diagnostic capacity to be integrated to selective breeding programs to improve stress and disease management; 3) Developing innovative, bio-based and sustainable solutions as an alternative to antibiotics for controlling fish pathogens at various life stages and alleviate the pressure of global antimicrobial resistance; 4) Developing new tools and technology to improve health and welfare monitoring at the fish farm level and diagnostics of fish pathogens both at the laboratory and the fish farm levels; 5) Placing fish welfare at the foreground of aquaculture production, through the development of high welfare standards that consider different life-stages, production systems, and knowledge of welfare needs, and 6) Ensuring effective external communication, dissemination and exploitation of project activities and results to all relevant target groups.

Coordinador

BIOLOGICKE CENTRUM AKADEMIE VID CESKE REPUBLIKY VEREJNA VYZKUMNA INSTITUCE
Aportación neta de la UEn
€ 375 062,50
Dirección
BRANISOVSKA 1160/31
370 05 Ceske Budejovice
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Región
Česko Jihozápad Jihočeský kraj
Tipo de actividad
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Coste total
€ 375 062,50

Participantes (21)

Socios (9)