Participating
Countries
- Romania
- Greece
- Italy
Partners and their roles in the project
University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine (USAMV)
- Management and coordination of the project
- Characterization, evaluation and selection of algae and plants wit antioxidant and antimicrobial activities
- Recovery of bioactive compounds from selected matrices and quality control of the extracts
- Development of processes, biochemical characterization methodologies, encapsulation and fermentation technologies and innovative functional ingredients and food
- Ethics and security of overall project-European Commission Ethics Self-Assessment Guidelines
Leader of WP1, WP3 and WP8
Dignity Private Company
- Dissemination and communication Manager
- Indication of hotspots regarding energy and material flows in extraction and encapsulation processes via LCA analysis
- Implementation of sustainability assessment (environmental and economic) of the final product
- Determination of commercial potential of the final products
Leader of WP2
National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)
- Content management-Project Quality Assurance
- Contribution to the selection of edible plants/herbs and algae in collaboration with USAMV
- Recovery and characterization of bioactive ingredients from selected plant and algal species through microwave, ultrasound and PLE extraction
- Encapsulation of bioactive ingredients with antimicrobial and antioxidant action in order to integrate them into feed supplements using the innovative electrohydrodynamic method and the conventional spray drying
- Determination of shelf life and sustainability assessment (environmental and economic) of the final product
Leader of WP4
Zoonomi S.A.
- Provision of infrastructure to run pilot trials of functional fish feed production
- Provision of knowledge on development of proper diet
- Collaboration with researchers to develop innovative fish feed and run LCA and LCC analysis of procedures and products
Leader of WP5
University of Aegean (UoA)
- Evaluation in vitro the antibacterial activity of the selected extracts against important marine bacterial pathogens
- Assessment of the impact of the new enriched fish feed on fish performance by administering them to experimental animals at different dosed for at least 4 months
Leader of WP6
University of Messina (UNIME)
- Evaluation of the effect of innovative feed products during commercial operation aquaculture conditions on growth, survival and parasitic load:
- Health monitoring
- Feed effects evaluation
- Growth performance
Leader of WP7
Piscicola S.A.
- Provision of knowledge on the evaluation and the potential effects of the proposed feeds in commercial scale aquaculture
- Evaluation of the disease resistance based on visual monitoring of both external morphology and behavioural changes
Panittica
- Provision of knowledge on the evaluation and the potential effects of the proposed feeds in commercial scale aquaculture.
- Evaluation of growth rates on large scale under control conditions
