GRASS News and events

A research laboratory that examines the oceans' wellbeing will open at the Design Museum on 6 September 2019.

The Norwegian startup B'ZEOS is devleoping a seaweed-based material capable of replacing plastic pellets that can be used to produce single-use plastics as straws.

Blue Center Gotland is working on the potential of algae in the food sector.

The European Commission (EC) has released a report offering scientific guidance to help meet the growing global demand for seaweed species now accepted as novel food.

There are parallel running Interreg projects related to seaweed in the Baltic Sea region such as CONTRA (Conversion of a Nuisance To a Resource and Asset) and COASTAL Biogas (solutions based on anaerobic digestion of cast seaweed to coastal regions to tackle eutrophication, contribute to the transition to a circular bio-economy and improve prosperity).

The Circular Bioeconomy Days 2019 will take place at Aarhus University, Campus Foulum, Denmark on 25 - 27 June 2019.

The project “Growing Algae Sustainably in the Baltic Sea” with the acronym GRASS is an Interreg BSR funded project from the 3^rd call. GRASS aims to unlock the potential of macroalgae production and application in the Baltic Sea Region.

The project Algae2Future (A2F) aims to lay the foundation for industrial microalgae production in Norway by utilizing natural resources and waste streams from existing production lines within agriculture, aquaculture and process industry.

The workshop about seaweed “Towards Regenerative Marine Industries” will take place between 24 February-10 March 2019 Kristineberg (Sweden) at the marine research station.