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Marine Innovation Projects

The aim of the Nordic Marine Innovation Program is to strengthen the innovation ability in order to increase profit and competitiveness in the Nordic marine sector. 14 projects receives funding through the Program.
  • Nordic Algae Network

    The project’s aim is to help the participants to a leading position in the field of utilizing algae for energy purposes and for commercial exploitation of high value compounds from algae. An additional aim is to increase the synergy and facilitating collaboration between the participants involved in the project and thereby increase their ability to compete in this new field.
  • Aquaponics NOMA (Nordic Marine) – New Innovations for Sustainable Aquaculture in the Nordic countries

    The main objective of AQUAPONIC NOMA is to establish a network for cooperation between businesses, researchers and consumers in the Nordic region, in order to provide new innovations supporting a more competitive and sustainable aquaculture and food sector.
  • Innovative fish counters

    The main goal with this project is to create a better everyday life for all fishmongers in the Nordic countries, and hopefully also a better public understanding of seafood as a cornerstone in the Nordic cuisine – the way forward is more innovative fish counters!
  • InTerAct - Industry-Academia Interaction in the Marine Sector

    The main goal of the InTerAct project is to establish interaction between the marine sector and universities, to address the higher educational needs of the aquatic food value chain with the long term objective to enhance the innovation capacity of the marine sector.
  • Tomorrow’s fish counter

    The main goals of this project are to build increased insight through better understanding of future consumer preferences, translate consumer insight into concrete concepts for tomorrow’s fish counter and contribute to increased market expertise in seafood. Also the project aims to improve skills and motivation for innovation processes across the value chain and different actors.
  • PIPE - Pelagic Industry Processing Effluents Innovative and Sustainable Solutions

    The main goal for the PIPE project is to test cutting edge technologies, to separate water and organic material from pelagic industries effluents and to characterize as well as valorise the organic material collected.
  • Novel bioactive seaweed based ingredients and products

    The goal of this project is to develop technologies to process novel highly bioactive ingredients from bladderwrack and develop innovative products containing them with active collaboration of target consumers/users. The products include (a) food supplements, (b) cosmetics and (c) food antioxidants.
  • North Atlantic Marine Cluster project

    The main goal of this project is to map marine clusters in the North Atlantic and strengthen relationships among them, build arenas to communicate their activities, benchmark and develop stronger networks in the ocean/marine sector.
  • Enriched Convenience Seafood Products

    The overall goal is successful product development of enriched seafood dishes with bioactive compounds from the ocean, such as seaweed, fish proteins and fish oil and to increase the variety of seafood products with functional properties available to Consumers.
  • APRICOT (Automated Pinbone Removal In COd and WhiTefish)

    The objective of this project is to develop and test equipment to automatically cut the pinbones out of whitefish fillets, such as cod.
  • Nordic Innovation Marine Marketing Program (NIMMP)

    The project goal is to improve the Nordic Marine Companies‘ international competitiveness by engaging students in consulting solution projects that could increase the Nordic Marine value proposition.
  • WhiteFishMaLL (North Atlantic Whitefish Marine Living Lab)

    The main goal of this project is to build a branding platform for whitefish from the North Atlantic that facilitates market differentiation in terms of sustainable production and superior consumer benefits. Furthermore, to demonstrate how a Living Lab can be established in the marine sector, dealing with innovation challenge, where the solution is co-created, explored, demonstrated and evaluated with a user-centric approach in real-world environment.