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…
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…
The first SeaMark newsletter is now available! Get updated on the achievements of the project so far, like the results of OCEANIUM´s product trials, the policy brief on ecosystem services, the regulatory assessment and an important milestone achievement. Don´t forget to subscribe to the newsletter, and get it sent straight Read more…