Descripción del proyecto
Mucosidad de medusas para combatir la contaminación de las costas
La contaminación del mar y de las costas derivada de las explosiones demográficas de medusas y la presencia de microplásticos representa un importante problema medioambiental. En el proyecto GoJelly, financiado con fondos europeos, se pretende abordar ambos problemas a la vez mediante el desarrollo, la prueba y el fomento de una solución gelatinosa. Su equipo se centrará en crear un prototipo de filtro de microplásticos utilizando como materia prima mucosidad de medusas. Esta solución innovadora eliminará de forma eficaz la contaminación por medusas y microplásticos de mares y zonas costeras. Además, creará oportunidades laborales para los pescadores comerciales, generará valiosos subproductos y constituirá un recurso para la industria alimentaria y de piensos, así como para la agricultura ecológica. El equipo del proyecto efectuará pruebas en los mares de Noruega, Báltico y Mediterráneo a fin de garantizar la eficacia del prototipo.
Objetivo
"The objective of the GoJelly project is to develop, test and promote a gelatinous solution to microplastic pollution by developing a TRL 5-6 prototype microplastics filter (GoJelly) for commercial and public use, where the main raw material is jellyfish mucus. In doing so, the consortium addresses two environmental issues with one approach by removing the commercially and ecologically destructive sea and coastal pollution of both jellyfish and microplastics. This innovative approach will ultimately lead to less plastic in the ocean, municipal demand (and thereby competitive prices) for jellyfish raw material to fill the ""mucus-need"" by filter developers, and in turn more jobs for commercial fishers in off-seasons. The by-products of the GoJelly biomass have other uses as well, ensuring that GoJelly also delivers a green innovation, resulting in novel, valuable resource for the food and feed industry as well as agro-biological fertilizer for organic farming. The GoJelly prototype products will be tested and demonstrated in three different European seas (Norwegian, Baltic and Mediterranean), by a range of stakeholders, including commercial fishers and industry partners. Tying it together, the project will also ensure the possibilities for broader European promotion and utilization of GoJelly at the local, regional and global level by delivering a socio-ecological methodological toolbox for forming and implementing policies. GoJelly will broadly communicate its results in several formats such as traditional social media, open lab ship cruise, and in the form of an experimental online game depicting different management scenarios under different jellyfish- and microplastics combinations. An interdisciplinary and international consortium consisting of technology developers, business analysts, fishing companies, research institutes, and both natural and social scientists will realize GoJelly, and will ensure the uptake of GoJelly products by industry and policy makers."
Ámbito científico
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesfisheries
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwater treatment processeswastewater treatment processes
- agricultural sciencesagriculture, forestry, and fisheriesagriculturesustainable agriculture
- natural sciencesearth and related environmental sciencesenvironmental sciencespollution
- agricultural sciencesagricultural biotechnologybiomass
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Programa(s)
Convocatoria de propuestas
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H2020-BG-2017-1
Régimen de financiación
IA - Innovation actionCoordinador
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