Explore SeaMark’s latest insights! New deliverables are now available on the SeaMark website. Recent additions include food safety analyses confirming the quality and purity of SeaMark ingredients, pilot-scale market testing across food, pet, cosmetics, health and packaging sectors, a socio-economic assessment of what scaling European seaweed cultivation could mean for Read more…
The SEAMARK Final Conference brought together partners, researchers, industry representatives, and policymakers to present the project’s key results and discuss the future of seaweed-based value chains in Europe. The following takeaways reflect the main insights and discussions from the day: SeaMark findings highlighted the high technology readiness level achieved for Read more…
The European ambition is clear: through the Ocean Pact and other EU initiatives, the Commission aims to boost the competitiveness of the blue bioeconomy and support prioritisation of aquatic biomass. More than 650 million euros have already gone into developing the algae sector in the past years through 250+ research Read more…
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…