News — NCE Seafood Innovation

New forces within sustainability

Dominik Flatten, who had his first day in June, is the newest member on the team. He is going to work with projects related to sustainability here at NCE Seafood Innovation. To get to know him better, we challenged him to answer five questions.

June 29, 2022

A gathering to fight melanin spots

Melanin spots in salmon filet affects both fish welfare and economy, and it is a significant issue for the aquaculture industry. Last week, representatives from the whole value chain, gathered to try to combat the problem through cooperation and research.

June 28, 2022

New EU Advisor on board!

This spring we were so lucky to get an EU Advisor in our team. In addition to creating more knowledge about the European funding programs here at our office, Cathrine Ulvatne, have already been out and about, meeting people in the industry and helped us with applications. Get to know her better with these five questions.

June 28, 2022

BioFeyn wins for feed-innovation

NCE Seafood Innovation have in cooperation with DNB and Pareto held the Seafood Innovation Award, where the start-up BioFeyn won this year’s prize. A jury and the audience voted for the winner because of its work with aquaculture feed additives.

June 22, 2022

Highlights from our Annual Meeting

With 60 registered participants, we hosted this year`s first annual meeting yesterday. It was obvious that our five new focus areas have affected the clusters work so far this year. Especially digitalization, circular economy and talent attraction have been included in many of our programs, projects and services. A bunch of our projects was presented, and here are some of the highlights.

June 17, 2022

Focusing on future competence and talent attraction

Fride is one of our newest team members and will be responsible for the clusters work within future knowledge and talent attraction. She has only been with us since May, but we are already getting used to her positive and happy presence. Get to know her better!

June 15, 2022

Circular solutions in Iceland

Participants from Seafood Trainee and Seafood Next went to Iceland for a couple of days last week. With a packed, but exciting schedule, the attendants got valuable insight about the Icelandic seafood industry directly from the people working in it. The focus on utilization of the whole fish was a highlight for many.

June 15, 2022

Circular cooperation

After getting an introduction to terminology and circular business models, the participants of the Circular Economy Program`s second module got a taste of how it works in real life. Workshops, company visits and insect-pancakes were a part of the two-day gathering.

June 13, 2022

Specialisation in Seafood Management

The Executive MBA with specialisation in Seafood Management is starting with a new cohort in January 2023. It is initiated in cooperation with our partner NHH, and the specialisation is designed for people working in the seafood-related industry. The programme is open for applications now.

June 9, 2022

Workshop: Visualization of future problems

Earlier in May, while the rain was bucketing down outside, we gathered focus groups with key people from the seafood industry to discuss present and future challenges within our five industry areas. For the first time, we used the scenario method in our workshops.

June 8, 2022

Sjetteklassinger skal løse utfordringer i sjømatnæringen

NCE Seafood Innovation og Ungt Entreprenørskap Vestland har fått økonomisk støtte fra Sparebanken Vests stiftelse Agenda Vestlandet til et 2-årig prosjekt som skal sikre talentattraksjon til sjømatnæringen.

May 20, 2022

Nytt RAS-kurs for næringsaktører!

For å øke tilbudet av kompetansehevende tiltak innen RAS, har klyngen initiert og drevet ulike prosjekter innenfor RAS. Etter stor suksess med EVU RAS-kurset på UiB i fjor høst, legges det nå opp til en ny runde i September 2022.

May 18, 2022

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