News/agenda

There have been a few changes for the CIRCALGAE project at the start of 2024. The project welcomes a new coordinator: CHALMERS University in Sweden. Here is the presentation of this new partner.

CIRCALGAE's work package 3 deals with several interconnected tasks related to the characterization and formulation of new ingredients for food, feed or cosmetics.

At the end of the first year of the CIRCALGAE project, CIVITTA produced a deliverable regarding algae-derived product market in Europe.

On October 26th, CIRCALGAE project’s partners held the first workshop in a series of events to be organized throughout the project. The event was held as a hybrid workshop, organized by CEVA and AQUIMER. It gathered project partners and stakeholders in Lille, while also allowing all interested parties to attend online, with close to 200 registered participants. The workshop focused on seaweed harvesting and cultivation in Europe, providing perspectives from European stakeholders on seaweed supply and value chains.

On 25 and 26 October 2023, all the partners of CIRCALGAE European project met at Lille (France) and online to celebrate the project's first anniversary.

Wednesday 13th september, Amparo Jimenez Quero presented CIRCALGAE Project during the conference : “Microalgae for the foods and feeds of the future” at the Final Conference of the European ProFuture Project. Coordinated by the Institute of Agrifood Research and Technology (IRTA) in Spain, this event was organised at COMET LOUISE, BRUSSELS and online the 13th and 14th September.

The 15th of June 2023, we took part in the Wider Caribbean - EU regional conference on sargassum: turning sargassum into an opportunity.

The European Maritime Day (EMD) is the annual two-day event during which Europe’s maritime community meet to network, discuss and outline joint action on maritime affairs and sustainable blue economy.

During the first semester of the CIRCALGAE project, CEVA produced one of the first deliverable of the project by writing the “Report of the current algae industry in Europe” in the WP1.

Members of the 21 partner entities of CIRCALGAE’s project met at Valencia (Spain) on April 20th and 21th for the Second consortium meeting.

Last 17th of February, we participated in the 1st Annual Forum of the Mission "Restore our Ocean and Waters by 2030" at Brussels!

CIRCALGAE project has been accepted to take part of the EU Mission Restore our Ocean and Water at the beginning of 2023! It will be a good opportunity to develop collaborations and synergies with other projects.

The kickoff meeting of the CIRCALGAE project took place in Stockholm (Sweden) at Kungliga Tekniska högskolan campus on 17-18 October 2022.