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…
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…
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…
Annual seaweed event organised by North Sea Farmers that connects the whole seaweed value chain. Held at the Pier in The Hague, Netherlands, on the 3rd of October. Link to event here.
In March 2023 the EU commission adopted the Green Claims Directive proposal, with the aim to reduce greenwashing and protect consumers from false or misleading claims on sustainability. But how can this new proposal impact the blue bioeconomy and the feasibility of new products´ market strategies? An EC inventory done Read more…