AquaBiotech Group has been working together with various partners to increase and improve aquaculture resources across the globe.

The Group recently won the Bluebridge Competition for VRES. The objective of the award is to empower four European SMEs working on collaborative data management for the fisheries, marine, environmental & ecological domains or in the aquaculture sector by providing them access to the Bluebridge resources. The aim for AquaBioTech Group is to study the nutrition dispersion and retention in the environment surrounding a local fish farm as a part of the H2020 project TAPAS (Tools for Assessment and Planning of Aquaculture Sustainability).

Also, Aquabiotech together with Agrotec S.p.A. have been awarded a tender from the European Union for Promoting Commercial Aquaculture in Uganda. The partners will carry out a fifty (50) month project to provide technical assistance for the development of a competitive, job-intensive, environmentally-sustainable and climate-resilient aquaculture value chain in Uganda in order to unlock the great freshwater aquaculture development potential of the country, the project will work together with various aquaculture stakeholders in the country. The legal and governance framework will also reflect on the needs of the various groups of the production sector, where the project will enhance the production volume and productivity by promoting new and locally-developed, environmentally sustainable technologies. To ensure the long-term socio-economic sustainability of the project outcomes, a special emphasis will be given on the capacity building and training actions, as well as encouraging investments in the aquaculture sector. The project is financed by the European Development Fund.

The AquaBioTech Group also recently completed the development of the Alltech Coppens Aqua Centre (ACAC) in Valkenswaard, the Netherlands, as previously reported by Aquafeed.com.