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FRIPROSJEKT-FRIPROSJEKT

OptoSeason: decoding seasonal reproduction in vertebrates using a next-gen optogenetic tool

Artificial light at night (ALAN) is throwing nature out of sync. Many animals rely on the length of daylight (photoperiod), to time their reproduction for when conditions are just right. Disrupting this natural signal, whether through urban lighting or aquaculture practices, can have serious cons...

Awarded: NOK 4.8 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Akershus

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

SBEP - BIOVAL - Microalgal biomass valorization for sustainable production of functional food and feed ingredients

Microalgae are emerging as a promising solution for sustainable food and animal feed production. The BIOVAL project is dedicated to advancing the use of cultivated microalgae to create "blue food" (food derived from aquatic sources) and feed, using eco-friendly technologies. These microscopic pla...

Awarded: NOK 2.9 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2028

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Smart Larval Rearing System (SLRS) for healthy marine aquaculture production

The first weeks of a fish larva's life set the premises for its further growth and development. Juvenile production remains the biggest bottleneck in marine aquaculture, and the industry needs tools to gain better control in this fragile phase of the value chain. Our innovative tool for land-base...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Early life programming and conditioning in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) for safeguarding Atlantic salmon health and welfare

A recent survey among Norwegian salmon producers underscores the need to optimize early life stage production to reduce mortality and ensure the health and welfare of salmon during their sea phase. Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) are increasingly used for producing smolts and post-smolts....

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Secondary treatment of RAS water and nutrient revalorization by site-specific microbial biofilm

Because of the increasing demand for healthy fish and seafood aquaculture has become the fastest-growing food production sector. However, two major challenges stand in the way of sustainable growth: finding alternative, eco-friendly sources of protein and fatty acids for fish feed and improving t...

Awarded: NOK 4.2 mill.

Project Period: 2025-2029

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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

SBEP - Boosting seaweed farming through better utilisation of genetic resources

Blue Bio Boost aims for sustainable economic development of the macroalgae industry by improving the efficiency of propagation and selection of suitable genotypes (Objective 1), by better exploiting genetic variation, while at the same time minimizing the potential for genetic pollution of natura...

Awarded: NOK 4.6 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Akershus

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

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

SBEP-A low CO2 smart autonomous multiplatform system to monitor and forecast Calanus stock -a new sustainable climate-neutral blue fish feed

The aquaculture industry is expected to grow, necessitating the production of fish feed from sustainable resources to support the production of farmed fish. One promising approach involves harvesting zooplankton, a natural resource abundant in the oceans, renowned for its richness in marine fat a...

Awarded: NOK 4.5 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

SBEP - FOODIMAR, sustainable climate-Friendly quality fOOD Ingredients from Marine side-stReams

Today’s food systems face numerous challenges, with climate change being a major one. Seafood plays a key role in transitioning towards sustainable and nutritious food systems. The seafood processing industry results in considerable side-streams, often discarded and underused, rich in bioactive c...

Awarded: NOK 3.4 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Sesonguavhengig produksjon av regnbueørret

In Norway there has been a growing inclination towards farming species as rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) due to its rapid growth and tolerance to a wide range of environmental conditions. Nowadays, rainbow trout accounts for 5% of the total salmonids produced per year in Norway and productio...

Awarded: NOK 8.2 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Etablere Rhodomonas kultur med gunstig mikrobiom tilpasset industriell produksjon

As one of the largest microalgae producers in Norway, CFEED contributes to sustainable feed solutions through its production of microalgae and the copepod Acartia tonsa. Copepods are small crustaceans that, in nature, serve as important prey for fish, whales, and other crustaceans. The copepods p...

Awarded: NOK 8.1 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2028

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

HubSmolt: a novel genetic locus defining seawater consequences of freshwater rearing conditions in Atlantic salmon

Atlantic salmon farming depends on freshwater rearing of juvenile fish from egg hatching until they are large enough to undergo transfer to seawater, where they can grow rapidly. Because of the high salt concentrations in seawater, this requires fish to undergo pronounced changes in the gill phys...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Does feed-borne exposure to emerging mycotoxins during the freshwater phase affect salmon growth and performance later in life? - MYTOXA

The aquaculture industry faces major challenges related to animal health including high mortalities following seawater transfer and reduced growth with unknown causation. The use of plant ingredients in salmon feed has introduced mold toxins (Mycotoxins) orally for the first time to carnivorous m...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2024-2027

Location: Vestland

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

Accelerated genetic improvement of key traits in farmed Atlantic salmon via transplantation of in vitro propagated germline stem cells

We have identified conditions that favor germ cell recovery/survival after cryopreservation, as well as germ cell proliferation in culture. Experiments are ongoing to confirm these findings. We also have ongoing experiments aiming at achieving germ cell differentiation in culture. Furthermore, se...

Awarded: NOK 15.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

KSP: Industrial-scale production of diatoxanthin – a high-value product from microalgae with anti-cancer and anti-inflammation properties

In DIATOX we genetically engineer microalgae to enable industrial production of the rare pigment diatoxanthin. Research indicates that diatoxanthin possesses antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer properties. Diatoxanthin is only found in a few groups of microalgae. Diatoxanthin is prod...

Awarded: NOK 14.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Regional adipose tissue depots in Atlantic salmon and their importance to fish health

Over the past decade, Atlantic salmon feeds have shifted from low-fat, marine-ingredient-rich formulas to higher-fat diets with more plant ingredients. This change has increased fat deposition in the fish and lowered the levels of health-promoting omega-3 fatty acids (EPA and DHA) and zinc (Zn) i...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Novel insights into the epigenetic landscape of puberty onset in Atlantic cod

Atlantic cod is a prime species for Norwegian aquaculture, with tremendous potential in food security, new job creation and economic growth. Within the last few years, an increasing number of farmers are interested in cod aquaculture but critical knowledge gaps in its biology (including reproduct...

Awarded: NOK 12.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Priming as a kelp engineering technology to enhance yield and secure production under environmental challenges

Kelp farming is a promising blue industry in Europe. However, global rising ocean temperatures could make kelp farming unsustainable. Thus one major current challenge in this industry is to breed or genetically engineer heat-resistant strains. However, breeding requires repeated selection over se...

Awarded: NOK 10.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Nordland - Nordlánnda

HAVBASERT-HAVBASERT

Ecophysiology of Atlantic salmon: Genetics versus Environment

The project is going according to plan with several good results this year. An article about physiology and heart morphology in slow and fast growing Atlantic salmon has been published in Aquaculture Reports. An article about physiology and morphology (otoliths and hearts) in different types of c...

Awarded: NOK 8.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2028

Location: Vestland

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

KSP: SALMON BROODSTOCK CARRYING STERILTY TO THE NEXT GENERATION (SALSTER)

The primary objective of the SALSTER project is to explore and establish, biotechnological methods for industrial scale production of genetically sterile salmon, with the secondary aim being to conclude on the market potential of such biotechnological methods. Currently, Atlantic salmon is to a l...

Awarded: NOK 19.3 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2027

Location: Vestland

FORNY20-FORNY2020

A sea-based feeding system for sea urchins

This project has been focused on developing and improving a sea-based feeding system for sea urchins. The project have consisted of four different work packages. All work packages and milestones have been concluded and successfully reached. The first work package was on designing and constructi...

Awarded: NOK 0.50 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2024

Location: Vestland

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS (Miljø/klima)

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Awarded: NOK 96.7 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Vestland

GRUNNBEVILGNING-GRUNNBEVILGNING

Grunnbevilgning - Nofima

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Awarded: NOK 394.9 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Tidligfase teknologioverføring - kommersialisering av forskning ved Nofima

Nofima is Europe’s leading food research institute. Our company consists of approximately 400 employees, 165 of whom hold a PhD. The company is closely connected to Norwegian food production and conducts research and development in aquaculture, fisheries, and land-based food. As an industry-orie...

Awarded: NOK 5.0 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

NYSKAPNING-NYSKAPNING

Tidligfase teknologioverføring ved Veterinærinstituttet.

The Norwegian Veterinary Institute (NVI) has a vision to ensure good health for both aquatic and terrestrial animals, as well as for humans. NVI is a biomedical research institute and Norway's leading expert environment in biosafety for fish and land animals. The institute’s core activities consi...

Awarded: NOK 0.24 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2025

Location: Akershus

RETUREU-RETUREU

RETUR-EU Nofima

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Awarded: NOK 27.2 mill.

Project Period: 2023-2030

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

SIG Seaweed 7 Conference

Tittel: SIG Seaweed 7 Conference Årets konferanse har tema "Technology development for an upscaled seaweed industry". SIG Seaweed 7 Conference arrangeres i Trondheim 15.-16.november 2022, med SINTEF Ocean som hovedansvarlig for program og arrangement, og SINTEF Industri og NTNU som medarrangører...

Awarded: NOK 99,999

Project Period: 2022-2022

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

BIOTEKNOLOGI-BIOTEKNOLOGI

ERA-NET: BlueBio - Advancing European bivalve production systems

Bivalves provide consumers with high value essential nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids and iodine. The production of bivalves has low environmental footprint. However, the technological development of the European bivalve production sectors lies far behind other aquaculture sectors. BIVALVI a...

Awarded: NOK 5.1 mill.

Project Period: 2022-2026

Location: Troms - Romsa - Tromssa

HAVBRUK2-Stort program for havbruksforskning

Effect of feeding regime on gut microbiota dynamics in greater amberjack juveniles (Seriola dumerili)

In aquaculture research, one of the horizons is to know what is necessary to allow the fish to grow and develop properly. The digestive tract houses a consortium of microorganisms that plays critical roles in the physiology of the host. Gut microbiota changes during the daily cycle, however, ther...

Awarded: NOK 93,000

Project Period: 2022-2024

Location: Trøndelag - Trööndelage

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