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HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Copepod based Feeds for Improved Salmon Health and aquaculture sustainability

Norway is the world’s largest producer of Atlantic salmon (salmon from here on), but the industry faces major challenges with fish health and welfare, both in land-based and seawater phases, leading to high mortalities. Farmed salmon often have poor resistance to stress and disease, resulting in ...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Harnessing innovative sustainable oil alternatives to traditional fish oil, ensuring uncompromised salmon health and fillet quality

Norway is a world leader in salmon farming but faces a major challenge: How can we ensure good fish health and high fillet quality without traditional fish oil? This is the goal of the InnoOil project. Fish oil has long been a key ingredient in salmon feed because it contains the omega-3 fatty ...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2030

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

EUROSTARS-EUROSTARS

9477 - Enhancing Marine HATCHeries productivity through better Nutrition, Robustness, and WELfare of Larvae

Marine fish and shrimp farming starts with tiny larvae that are extremely sensitive during their first weeks of life. Today, hatcheries depend on live feed such as rotifers and Artemia to raise these larvae. However, these feeds are expensive, difficult to manage, and often inconsistent, making t...

Awarded: NOK 5.8 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

FFLJA-FFLJA

Soil2Milk: Enhancing Soil to Milk food chain Sustainability- A Novel Approach for Higher Productivity and Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Norway is launching Soil2Milk, a major interdisciplinary research project led by the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU), to reduce greenhouse gas emissions throughout the entire feed value chain, from soil and fertilizer use to forage crops, dairy cows, and milk production. High-yield ...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Upcycling fish sludge to sustainable feed material: From environmental waste problems to sustainable feed solutions (Up-Sludged)

Norway produces large volumes of Atlantic salmon, also in freshwater facilities like hatcheries and smolt land-based farms. This generates a substantial amount of waste, in the form of fish sludge – a product consisting of feed spills and fish feces. This biomass is rich in nutrients and is consi...

Awarded: NOK 24.9 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Vestland

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

SalmoPro: Unlocking mechanisms of alternative protein utilization in salmon for improved health and efficiency

As the world’s population continues to grow, the demand for food is rising steadily. Salmon farming is central to global food supply, but feeding salmon sustainably is challenging. Fishmeal, the traditional protein source, is expensive and reliant on finite marine resources. Salmon aquafeed is sh...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Production of microbial protein from methanol as feed

In our growing global population, making sure everyone has access to enough protein-rich food is a massive challenge. Traditional farming relies on land, water, and weather—resources that are under pressure from climate change and overpopulation. But what if we could sidestep all that? Enter Meta...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Maximizing the production of Norwegian grain legumes

Cultivation of grain legumes such as faba bean and field pea has increased in Norway in the last decade and is expected to continue to do so due to several benefits. The grain legumes do not require nitrogen fertilization due to their symbiosis with N-fixing bacteria and leave behind N that can b...

Awarded: Hidden

Project Period: 2026-2029

Location: Akershus

MILJØTEMA-MILJØTEMA

Indre bærekraft, ytre endring - handlingsprogram for rettferdig bærekraft

Det er en velkjent utfordring å få forskningsresultater ut i praksisfeltet og det er en villet politikk at forskere skal bli mer formidlingsorienterte. Formålet med dette prosjektet er derfor å gi forskningsresultatene fra to nylig avsluttede prosjekter en praktisk anvendelse. Vi bygger på fors...

Awarded: NOK 0.15 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Oslo - Oslove

FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

PEAK: Plasmid Evolution and Antimicrobial resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious threat to human health which is predicted to increase in the future. One of the most common ways that bacteria evolve resistance to antibiotics is by acquiring resistance genes; these are often carried on pieces of DNA called plasmids. Plasmids carrying...

Awarded: NOK 5.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Oslo - Oslove

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Unlocking Potential of Seaweeds and Halophytes through Biorefinery for Enhanced Resilience in Aquaculture Agri-Food and Chemical Industries

The ReSEAlience project is rethinking how we use marine plants like seaweed and Salicornia, a salt-tolerant plant, to create a more sustainable future. By developing a smart, eco-friendly “biorefinery,” the project turns these plants into useful products—like biofuels, animal feed, and even texti...

Awarded: NOK 2.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Lactobacilli-based feeds for robustness and health of salmon for business (Prob-Fôr FB)

The microbiome has an influence on health in all host organisms. Colonization of the gastrointestinal tract with health promoting microbiota may be a promising method to promote health and welfare in farmed Atlantic salmon. In this project, we aim to show how two specific lactic acid bacteria (LA...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

MARITIMFORSK-MARITIMFORSK

BærEkraftig HAVbrukslogistikk gjennom Effektiv fôrdistribusjon og miljøvennlige skip

BeHAVE will develop sustainable logistics solutions for the aquaculture industry of the future, focusing on how feed distribution can be performed more efficiently than today. The project partners have identified a considerable need and wish to develop a new tool for logistics optimisation. The ...

Awarded: NOK 7.6 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

TEKNOLOGIKONVER-TEKNOLOGIKONVER

Convergence of nanofabrication, nanoscopy, transcriptomics, and algae technologies for sustainable fish feed

Sustainability is becoming more and more important to the growing aquaculture sector than ever. Integrating marine microalgae biomass as a feed ingredient in Norway's aquaculture industry achieves a double gain: It provides a sustainable, high-quality marine feed alternative that supports the gro...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Cryo XS gir bedre fiskehelse og økonomi

Aquaculture is a rapidly growing industry, but a challenge is how to optimize early nutrition for fish larvae to ensure good health and growth. Building on the success of Cryo-S and Cryo-L (cryopreserved nauplii from two different barnacle species), we are introducing Cryo-XS, which consists of c...

Awarded: NOK 9.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Dietary and cellular osmolytes in protecting Atlantic salmon skin from pre-disposition to wounds.

Life in seawater is challenging for any fish, more so for salmon which leaves home from freshwater as smolts to the sea. One of the first and foremost challenges is to avoid dehydration. Saltwater drives water out of the body through a process called osmosis and the salmon must replenish it throu...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

Food4Cells: Developing sustainable cell culture media for cultivated meat (CM) production based on Norwegian plant-based agri-food.

As the global population grows, it’s estimated that food production will need to increase by over 60% by 2050. This puts immense pressure on the livestock sector to meet the rising demand for high-value animal protein. Additionally, from a circular economic perspective, recycling plant-based by-p...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Cultivating sustainable changes in livestock feed production and feeding practices (Feed&Feeding)

The project will evaluate various strategies for feed production and feeding practices to enhance the sustainability of Norway's food system and support national agricultural policy goals. These strategies include adjusting livestock diets, improving breeding and animal health, and introducing ne...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Optimizing feed resources for a circular food system

The FeedLoop project aims to suggest transformations in livestock farming for increased circularity, addressing one of the biggest challenges in global food production: the competition between food and feed for valuable biomass resources. With growing concerns about climate change, food security,...

Awarded: NOK 9.4 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2027

Location: Akershus

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

Data-driven engineering of microalgal biofactories for safe and efficient omega-3 production

Omega-3 oils are essential for a healthy diet. However, current sources—mainly derived from fish oil—are not sustainable. Microalgae offer a promising alternative due to their unique ability to utilize solar energy to produce omega-3 from CO2. SafePhaeO3 aims to create a sustainable production pl...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Vestland

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Søknad Tidligfase teknologioverføring (TTO funksjon) 2025-2026 for Havforskningsinstituttet

The Institute of Marine Research (HI) aims to strengthen early-stage technology transfer to transform research into sustainable solutions for fisheries, aquaculture, seafood and marine management. Through close collaboration with Vestlandets Innovasjonsselskap (VIS), which serves as HI’s technolo...

Awarded: NOK 0.89 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Vestland

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Soil carbon in Norwegian outfield and infield grazing areas: Plant-soil-herbivory feedbacks on plant production and soil carbon dynamics

The main objective of this project is to quantify and predict grazing effects on soil organic carbon stocks and dynamics. Our goal is to come up with management recommendations that ensure nature-based solutions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, mitigating climate change while promoting biod...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Kunnskapsnotat om forskning på bærekraftig fôr til husdyr i Norge

This project aims to gather and summarize research-based knowledge on sustainable feed for farm animals in Norway, based on research from the last seven years. The aim is to identify knowledge gaps that can form the basis for further research and innovation to achieve a more sustainable feed syst...

Awarded: NOK 2.5 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Akershus

FFLJA-FFLJA

Boosting Healthy Oat Feed Production in Norway

The project will reduce the risk of mycotoxins in oats and improve the nutritional value of oats. This will ensure oats a quality feed used to produce food with high nutritional quality, ensuring oats as an important crop in Norwegian agriculture. The project will generate a knowledge base to ens...

Awarded: NOK 0.48 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Akershus

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Developing social science methods for evaluating sustainability in Norwegian feed system for livestock and aquaculture

The project SocialFeed starts from the premise that existing social sustainability standards, certification schemes and tools lack the national context and need to be improved to capture the real social impacts of a complex system like the feed system in Norway consisting of both local production...

Awarded: NOK 10.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Industrial production of Gammaridaes as fishfeed

In 2017, the European Commission sought advice from high-level scientific advisors on increasing food and biomass from the ocean without harming future generations. The report emphasizes sustainable practices at lower trophic levels as the solution. The EU consider circular food and feed producti...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

EUROSTARS-EUROSTARS

4876 - Tidlig weaning av flatfisk på microfôr: forbedret kvalitet, overlevelse på larver og yngel

Farming halibut is a long process with complex biology. One of the biggest challenges is the long live feed period. it can be up to 50-60 days, and requires large quantities of the prey Artemia. Artemia is a small crustacean that is hatched, enriched and fed to the halibut larvae. Making this fee...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Rogaland

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Boosting the resilience of European shellfish production against climate change related challenges through genetic selection

Bivalve aquaculture has become increasingly important sector of global blue bioeconomy in recent years due to its numerous environmental, economic, and social benefits. Bivalve aquaculture is considered sustainable and environmentally friendly compared with other aquaculture as it is low trophic,...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Sustainable cultivation of polychaetes as feed in aquaculture

Increasing access to sustainable raw materials for feed is the bottleneck that must be solved, if we are to achieve the ambitious goals set by the Norwegian government (Hurdal platform, 2021 and Mission in Sustainable feed, 2022) and meet the demand for sustainable feed ingredients from the aquac...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2025

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

LANDBASERT-LANDBASERT

Green ERA Hub - DAiry Waste and REsidues upCYCLing into Microbial ProtEin

Europe is facing a significant challenge in securing enough protein to meet the growing global demand. Current production does not cover the needs for food, animal feed, and biobased materials. For example, the European feed industry is heavily dependent on imported protein, which is not sustaina...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

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