Project description
Innovative solutions for sustainable European organic aquaculture
The EU and its Member States are investing in research into organic fish production, which offers a solution for food security in Europe.. In this context, the EU-funded EUAqua.Org project will enhance European organic fish production by developing innovative solutions to address critical challenges in farming Atlantic salmon, European sea bass, gilthead sea bream and rainbow trout. The project will advance phenotyping, genotyping, and genomic prediction technologies, providing essential tools for cost-effective and environmentally sustainable organic aquaculture. It will implement a comprehensive communication and training programme to ensure these tools are effectively used in the industry, including a co-developed online training course for stakeholders like breeding companies and fish farmers.
Objective
EUAqua.Org is aimed at boosting organic fish production in Europe by developing highly innovative solutions to fill key knowledge gaps and overcome the most relevant factors limiting the competitiveness for organic farming of Atlantic salmon, European sea bass, gilthead sea bream, and rainbow trout. Key technological advancements in phenotyping, genotyping, and genomic prediction methods will be developed by EUAqua.Org through the integration of different disciplines and approaches. This will provide essential tools for cost-effective, welfare- and environment-friendly organic aquaculture. The implementation of these tools at the industry level will be ensured by a comprehensive scientific, public, and industrial communication and dissemination programme, with exploitation of the project objectives and key results to create impact, including a multi-module open-access online training course that will be co-developed with key stakeholders (breeding companies, fish farmers, feed producers). In parallel, a tailored set of intervention strategies will be designed to promote awareness and acceptance of OA products in European consumers, through a behavioural economics approach. The project will build upon outputs of completed and ongoing national and EU projects, fully exploiting existing knowledge and leveraging the direct involvement of EUAqua.Org partners in multi-disciplinary research on advanced fish genomics, fish nutrition, fish health and welfare, consumer studies.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries fisheries
- natural sciences biological sciences genetics
- medical and health sciences health sciences nutrition
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.6 - Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL6-2024-BIODIV-01
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35122 Padova
Italy
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