Description du projet
La première récolte d’algues marines organiques européennes
La production d’algues marines est considérée comme une excellente solution pour les ressources alimentaires, les biocarburants, les engrais biologiques ainsi qu’une gamme infinie de produits durables du futur. Les grandes fermes marines essaiment dans le monde entier, lorsque la qualité de l’eau et les conditions technologiques y sont favorables. Le projet SeaBest, financé par l’UE, sera la première initiative à boucler la boucle, en partant d’une spore d’algue marine pour arriver à un produit de haute qualité issu de l’agriculture biologique, et cela à l’aide d’une approche concurrentielle à grande échelle en Europe. Fort d’une expérience significative dans le domaine de la culture d’algue marine offshore, le projet SeaBest permettra de produire de grandes quantités d’algues marines biologiques en Europe de manière abordable, totalement traçables, de qualité alimentaire et prêtes à être utilisées comme ingrédient en tant que tel, ou incorporées à différents produits.
Objectif
"The SeaBest project will be the first to close the circle from seaweed spore to a high quality organic food product using a large-scale and cost-competitive approach in Europe. The project will allow 1,000-14,000t of seaweed to be produced in Europe at up to 56% less cost compared to current practises. Our project will satisfy the high unmet demand of the global market for cultivated organic seaweed worth €9.3bn and of the European organic food market worth €30 billion in 2015. For the first time ever, we will enable low-cost high-volume organic seaweed to be produced in Europe, fully traceable, foodgrade certified and ready for use as an ingredient on its own or in a multitude of products. We are already in talks with over 15 EU food producers and we have Letters of Intent documenting demand for over 3,200t just from 5 large clients who are awaiting the ability to purchase organic European seaweed on a large-scale - so that they can pursue catering to dominant global food outlets such as IKEA and Schouten. We have performed a Phase 1 Feasibility Study funded by Innovation Norway (VIDAN - 2014/104777) that validated our pilot plant at TRL 7 and commercial viability. Over €14 million has been invested in our unique and game-changing solution since 2009 including SEAWEED-STAR Eurostars (#6027) project that verified our offshore farming technology. We are part of the H2020-BG-2016-1 project GENIALG aiming to boost the EU Blue Biotechnology Economy (BBE) by increasing the sustainable production of EU seaweed. Phase 2 funding will allow us to reach full commercial viability through technology maturation, piloting and market maturation activities. SeaBest will generate 30 new FTEs within SES and another 36 in our production partners, and we estimate an accumulated €76.5m in revenues after 5 years. By mechanising seaweed farming and reducing production costs, SeaBest will also open the way to new markets in bioenergy, biopharmaceuticals and animal nutrition."
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SME-2 - SME instrument phase 2Coordinateur
7018 Trondheim
Norvège
L’entreprise s’est définie comme une PME (petite et moyenne entreprise) au moment de la signature de la convention de subvention.