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Land-based facilities (offices, workshops, quay)

Flexibility: module-based construction
Innovative design / unique identity: non-invasive, buildings on pillars, windshield, view, light

   

Sea-based facilities (Dedicated Technology Test Sites, Dedicated Operation and Management Test Sites)

 

Presentation of the new infrastructure

Project products:

Deliverable 1: Inventory of infrastructure and knowledge gaps in aquaculture technology:

List of existing European marine aquaculture research facilities:

Deliverable 2: Infrastructure sketch, including preliminary cost calculations:

Deliverable 3: Site evaluation and assessment plan:

Deliverable 4: Management and operation plan:

Deliverable 5: Financial plan:

Deliverable 6: Construction plan:

Impact evaluation report:

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Participants at the second International Advisory Group (from left to right): Panos Christofilogiannis, Xoan Lueiro, David Murphy, Dave Jackson, Alexandra Neyts, Karl Iver Dahl-Madsen, Matilde Chautón.
(Photo: Leif Magne Sunde, SINTEF Fisheries and aquaculture)
 
The aquaculture industry is facing increasing challenges due to a more demanding and selective market combined with a tougher competition from non-European countries. Technological solutions contributing to a more ethical production of healthier fish and with a reduced impact on the environment are a major step towards a higher quality product and restoration of the consumer’s confidence in farmed fish.
DesignACT is a EU funded project aiming to design a European Aquaculture Centre of Technology (ACT): a large-scale experimental facility in Mid-Norway that will address the unmet needs in the European aquaculture sector.

As a meeting place for technology and biology, the goal is to seek technical solutions with direct or indirect biological impact.

 The design of the specialised laboratory will be based on a continuous and close cooperation between technologists, marine biologists and ecologists on one side and the fish farming industry and its suppliers on the other.
DesignACT started on 1 April 2005 and will take 3 years to complete.

Inform us about your research needs and we may jointly work towards the establishment of new experimental facilities leading to the necessary technological solutions.

For further information:
Alexandra Neyts
Leif Magne Sunde

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