Seaweed Highlights
Sector Session (webinar) over Food, Safety & Allergens of Seaweed
13/01/2023 - As a novel food, there is still a lot to learn about how to use seaweed as a food ingredient. Wageningen Foods Safety Research (WUR) recently conducted research about these topics in seaweed. During the next Sector Session on Tuesday 24th of January, WUR and Allergenen Consultancy will update members on the most recent results and developments in food research and allergens more specifically.
New Year’s Celebration at Muzee Scheveningen
10/01/2023 - The New Year’s Celebration of North Sea Farmers will be held at Muzee Scheveningen on Thursday the 26th of January. Members only. The party will be combined with the sparkling new exhibition called WEED. A part of the program will be also online.
Introducing OceanWide Seaweed
16/12/2022 - OceanWide Seaweed, our newest member, developed an innovative and sustainable seaweed farming method, which allows large scale and profitable cultivation of the red algae Dulse. This farming method applies a microporous net structure and enhances the growth rates considerably, while reducing biofouling. They are interested in establishing collaborations, to commercialize their growth modules and distributing their harvested Palmaria Palmata.
EU selected United partners as key innovators
15/12/2022 - North Sea Farmers, FuE Kiel (Forschungs- und Entwicklung Fachhoschule Kiel GmbH) and Ghent University (Universiteit Gent) have been selected as ‘key innovators’ by the European Commission. With this nomination, we join the 9000+ EU-funded innovations already showcased on the platform. The aim is to make information about EU-funded innovations from high-quality projects visible and accessible to the public via the EU's Innovation Radar platform.
Large companies in Europe: ‘Start with using seaweed today’
12/12/2022 - How can we scale-up seaweed farming on the North Sea in a co-use setting with offshore wind farms? That was one of the main questions the six partners of Interreg Grensregio Wier&Wind project tried to answer. For that they performed a seaweed cultivation pilot on the Offshore Test Site, 12 kilometers off the coast of The Hague, that was completed last summer. Friday 2th of December the project was finalized with an event in the @HogeschoolZeeland (HZ) in Middelburg, combined with the community event of North Sea Farmers.
Knowledge base in progress.... more factsheets are coming
09/12/2022 - Last newsletter we've presented the knowledge base to help you as members to find relevant information on seaweed (production), relevant regulations and markets. In the coming period, we want to expand this index with more fact-based sheets, produced made by the North Sea Farmers team and partners.
Coming event: Shaping the future of the Seaweed Sector together
22/11/2022 - First-hand best practices of offshore seaweed production. The opportunities and challenges of multi-use on the North Sea. Building a roadmap together for the future of the seaweed sector. And of course, meeting other members and stakeholders of the sector while enjoying some nice drinks and bites.
Logistics center for sea vegetables in Zeeland can start
27/10/2022 - Yerseke, 5 October 2022 a unique logistics center for processing sea vegetables is ready to operate. A two-year research and demonstration project, subsidized by the province of Zeeland, and carried out by the Dutch Seaweed Group, Murre Technologies, SeaweedTech and North Sea Farmers has successfully been completed.
Introducing: Seas the Opportunity
14/10/2022 - We are the founders of Seas The Opportunity: Fiona Trappe of North Wales, with its glorious Irish Sea coast, who has British and Irish nationality with a background in the pharmaceutical industry and enterprise development; and Charles Blair, who currently resides in the not so glorious post-industrial city of Manchester, a British-Aussie, with decades of international tourism development experience worldwide.
Seaweed processing pilot
14/10/2022 - In response to a number of questions from within the seaweed community, NSF has initiated a seaweed processing pilot.