SeaMark partner ALGAplus has launched a new product! A Seaweed Thalassotherapy Kit, released under the name SEA ORIGINALS, features sea lettuce and traditional Atlantic sea salt. Together, the formula offers a revitalising and deeply relaxing bath experience. The ingredients in SEA ORIGINALS weren’t chosen at random. The Ulva, or sea Read more…
Project Coordinator Olavur Gregersen (CEO of Ocean Rainforest) recently joined the Business of Aquaculture podcast to discuss the growing role of cultivated seaweed and the challenges of scaling this sustainable industry. The episode explores the transformative potential of seaweed in tackling global challenges, from food security to climate change, and Read more…
On 30th of January 2025 the SUBMARINER Working Group Meeting on monitoring took place. The Algae WG took a big part, featuring algae related monitoring practices and tools from SeaMark, I3-4-Seaweed, EU4Algae and Glasgow University. Find the full summary and presentations here Frederick Bruce (S.Pro) presented work done in EU4Algae Read more…
30th of January 2025, 9:00-15:00. In this session we target all practitioners in the blue economy and invite you to learn from each other’s industries for best practices and common challenges, cross disciplines and governance levels. Will first explore different aspects of monitoring, such as frameworks, methods, and needs. We also look at some business cases and markets for monitoring. In the afternoon, we focus on technological aspects Read more…
Don’t miss a free webinar about Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in algae-based value chains. Together the four EU-funded algae projects LOCALITY, REALM algae, SeaMark, CIRCALGAE, and AlgaeProBANOS will discuss with LCA experts different methodologies used in process selection in all five projects. Join online and learn more about the possibilities and the main issues. With Read more…
We are happy to send out the 2nd SeaMark newsletter now right before the holidays! 2024 has been a great year for the project, with the research and product development accelerating. Through all our partners, SeaMark has really made impact to enable a stronger seaweed market in the EU. Examples Read more…
Edit Column On the 6th of November, the SUBMARINER Mussels and Algae Working Groups (WGs) joined together to organise a WG meeting on Data Availability and Uses. With 67 participants, it is one of the biggest WG meetings we have organised! We got four very interesting presentations looking at different Read more…
On the 30th of October 2024, SeaMark hosted the webinar “Entrepreneurship in the European Seaweed Industry, focusing on young entrepreneurship and start-ups. Starting with a presentations introducing the EU4Algae initiative by Laura Maragna from EurA, and the SeaMark project by Urd G. Bak from Ocean Rainforest. After this, Urd continued with a Read more…
Are you choosing your career path and are interested in the seaweed industry, or a young entrepreneur looking at new possibilities and markets? EU4Algae WG7 (Youth & Entrepreneurship) and SeaMark invites you to a webinar about entrepreneurship in the seaweed sector, looking at examples from the SeaMark project and various Read more…
The next Mission Arena will be taking place in Amsterdam on 26-27 November 2024. This Arena will focus on the North Sea region including the Netherlands, Belgium, western Germany, western Denmark, and northern France. Over the course of two days, participants will have the opportunity to discuss the most pressing blue Read more…