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We are happy to see that more and more companies see the value in coming together to solve industry challenges and to build sustainable businesses within the seafood sector. Per August 2020 we count 84 member companies in NCE Seafood Innovation, ranging from industry leaders with an international presence to local early-stage entrepreneurial businesses.

AquaCloud har sammen med partnere utviklet en ny, åpen standard som bidrar til å frigjøre potensialet i ulike sensorer i oppdrettsmerder på sjø. Sensorer som støtter standarden, kan nå tilby enklere tilgang til mer detaljerte målinger og integrasjon med systemer som kan utnytte data i innovative løsninger for bærekraftig vekst i oppdrettsnæringen.

In the last two weeks, we had over 500 registered across our sectors and clusters in our webinar series "Land meets Ocean". Through panel discussions and presentations by our 13 speakers from industry and academia, we experienced great interest and a lot of innovative business concepts across blue and green sectors solving the most important challenges of increasing the level of circularity across the clusters and sustainable food production in the agriculture, aquaculture, and fisheries sectors.

Risk capital is an important part of innovation-driven growth and we are proud to welcome Farvatn and Momentum as our first two cluster members with a mandate to invest in seafood growth companies.

Seafood Trainee gives us candidates with a genuine interest for the aquaculture industry, says Siren Grønhaug, HR Director in Lerøy Seafood, and last week we started our 5th group of Seafood Trainee with among others 10 trainees from Lerøy Seafood Group.

En standard for klassifisering av taps- og dødsårsaker kan gi store gevinster i form av bedre innsikt til valg av tiltak for reduksjon av tap og dødelighet. Dette er konklusjonen fra et forprosjekt utført av Institutt for produksjonsdyrmedisin ved NMBU Veterinærhøgskolen på oppdrag av AquaCloud og NCE Seafood Innovation.

Learn more about biological, environmental and technological processes in fish farming using recycling. A new part-time course starts at UiB in the autumn of 2020, application deadline October 20.

Next week we are starting our new competence program, Seafood Next. Seafood Next is an international program for professionals new to the seafood industry.

NCE Seafood Innovation worked with two master students from the University of Stavanger and Norwegian School of Economics this spring.

Karianne Kojen Andersen has started in the position as EU Advisor for NCE Seafood Innovation to help reinforce the cluster’s EU strategy. She will among other things assist members and partners with free advice about EU funding.

Det er mye snakk om digitalisering innen havbruk for tiden, og det er ikke måte på hva som kan løses ved hjelp av ny teknologi.

We congratulate Evoy and Innomar with funding from the EU European Innovation Council (EIC), collectively capturing more than NOK 100 million in funding! The EIC Accelerator (previously know as SME Instrument) is part of the EIC pilot that supports top-class innovators, entrepreneurs, small companies, and scientists with funding opportunities and acceleration services. The funding is a combination of grants and equity targeted for technological development, growth, and scaling.