Our vision is to "create value and relevance for our members, and initiating activities and projects that stimulate sustainable growth and foster development in the seafood industry" - says Trude Jansen Hagland, Managing Director of NCE Seafood innovation.
Innovation through collaboration
Together with our members and partners, we foster innovation to build an adaptable and future-oriented seafood industry. We collaborate on projects, activities, and meeting arenas to develop new and better ways to solve our common challenges. Our aim is to create spaces for innovation to occur.
Acquiring knowledge and working together with other industries can contribute to better solutions. One example is the collaborative initiative Land Meets Ocean. This is an initiative together with NCE Blue Legasea, Biotech North and NCE Heidner Biocluster to strengthen the Norwegian bioeconomy and enable innovation industrial growth across agriculture, aquaculture and fishery industries. In our Annual Report you can read more about the highlights from the projects in 2023.
Competence Programs
There is a constant need for new and updated competence in the seafood industry, and the cluster has over the past years developed a variety of competence programmes. The programs are very popular and have been an important arena for increased competence for our partners and members.
- Seafood Next – competence program for professionals new to the industry and those who just want to expand their knowledge. It is also an effective arena for networking across companies.
- Seafood Trainee – one-year program for graduates interested in the seafood industry. We attract individuals with high motivation and fresh skills.
- Seafood Circular – the program aims to provide knowledge of circular economic principles and business models across value chains and inspire more circular economic solutions in the industry.
In 2024, we will add Seafood Digital to the list of competence programmes.
Other highlights
- We passed 200 participants in Seafood Trainee
- Aquacloud got data from 15 companies meaning that over 50% of Norwegian biomass are in place in Aquacloud's data sets.
- 1500 students participated in our Innovation Camps
- 2 new Industry Insight reports were launched
Read the Annual report 2023:
