Web Analytics

fundsforNGOs

Grants and Resources for Sustainability

You are here: Home / Infrastructure support / AQUAEXCEL2020 invites European Researchers to boost Aquaculture Research Infrastructures

AQUAEXCEL2020 invites European Researchers to boost Aquaculture Research Infrastructures

Deadline: 13 September 2019

AQUAEXCEL2020 project has been launched to invite European research groups for scientific research that utilises the facilities of any of the participating aquaculture research infrastructures.

The AQUAEXCEL 2020 project unites major aquaculture experimental facilities with capacity to undertake experimental trials on a selection of commercially important fish aquaculture species and system types. These installation are made available to the research community for Transnational Access(TNA) with the support of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme.

Sustainable growth of the aquaculture sector in Europe, based on efficient and environmentally responsible production of high value fish products, can be achieved by ensuring excellent scientific research and by the results being translated into innovation and industrial growth.

This target can be achieve by integrating 39 top class European aquaculture research facilities that cover all relevant scientific fields, fish species and systems. The project will provide a single access portal to high-quality, harmonised services and resources tailored to the needs of the European aquaculture community, support and conduct world-class research and provide the basis for a European aquaculture innovation system from basic research to applied science.

It will also provide training for transnational access users, aquaculture researchers, technical staff and industry stakeholders. A series of face-to-face and distance learning courses on aquaculture technology and fish biology will be offered over the five year duration of the project.

Interested researchers can propose aquaculture research projects that:
Involve research on any of the available fish species at the selected aquaculture research infrastructure, Are compliant with the EATiP Strategic Research & Innovation Agenda and Involve visits of one or two people to
a research infrastructure that provides installations not available in their own country for periods of up to three months.

Research Infrastructures Cover

  • Water Environments
    • Freshwater, Marine, Cold, Temperate and Warm Water Environments
  • Species
    • Salmonids, Cold and Warm Water Marine Fish, Freshwater Fish and Artemia
  • Fields of Expertise
    • Nutrition, Physiology, Health & Welfare, Genetics, Engineering, Monitoring &
      Management Technologies
  • Aquaculture System
    • Cage, Pond, Recirculation, Flowthrough, Hatchery and Disease Challenge
      Systems
  • Facility Scales
    • Small, Medium and Industrial Scales

Benefits

  • The facilities available cover the entire range of;
    • Production systems(cage, pond, recirculation, flow through, hatchery and disease challenge);
    • Environments (fresh water, marine, cold, temperature and warm water); Scales(small, medium and industrial scale);
    • Fish species (Salmonds, cold and warm water marine fish, freshwater fish and artemia);
    • Fields of expertise (nutrition, physiology, health & welfare, genetics, engineering, monitoring & management technologies).

Thematic Areas

  • Social Licence;
  • Precision Farming;
  • Resource Efficiency.

Eligibility Criteria

  • The AQUAEXCEL2020 project regularly invites proposals from European research groups for scientific research that utilises the installations of selected participating Aquaculture Research Infrastructures.

How to Apply

Applications must be prepared and submitted via TNA Online application system given in the website.

For more information please visit http://www.aquaexcel2020.eu/transnational-access/call-access