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Photo by: Gudlaugur Thór Thórdarson, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Berta Danìelsdòttr, Iceland Ocean Cluster, Tanja Hoel NCE Seafood. HM The King and the President of Iceland and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iceland have today attended the seminar "Sustainabilty for the Future-Value Creation from the ocean", organized by the Icelandic Embassy, Promote Iceland, Innovation Norway and the University of Bergen. The seminar took place at Vil Vite in Bergen on March 23. Innovation, new species and better utilization of by-products from the ocean were topics that were addressed in the lectures.
The Icelandic Minister of Foreign Affairs announced the cooperation agreement, which was signed by Berta Danìelsdòttr from Iceland Ocean Cluster and Tanja Hoel from NCE Seafood.
-Iceland and Norway are both strong seafood nations with long traditions of cooperation. With this cooperation agreement, we want to strengthen our efforts on innovation and entrepreneurship. Iceland Ocean Cluster and our seafood cluster have a lot in common. Both clusters have a strong focus on sustainable exploitation of marine resources, says Tanja Hoel, CEO of NCE Seafood.
Our R&D manager, Björgólfur Hávarðsson will be visiting Iceland Ocean Cluster in June. The goal is to identify possible collaboration projects between Icelandic partners and ours, continues Hoel. In September, “The World Seafood Congress“ will be held in Iceland where NCE Seafood has been invited to be a key-note speaker. -We are discussing with the other ocean clusters about arranging a joint study tour to explore areas where Iceland and Norway can contribute to innovative technology development for increased value creation from the ocean-continues Hoel.
Contact info:
TANJA HOEL
Managing Director
The NCE Seafood
Cell + 47 92 80 13 15
E-mail: tanja@seafoodinnovation.no
