BLUE WAY to a Sustainable Europe

Atmospheric CO2 levels are 50% higher than in the pre-industrial times.

BLUEWAYES proposes a significant cut in the CO2 emissions of the food and feed sectors, exploiting opportunities to achieve environmental and health benefits via economic sustainability.

Zero-waste biorefinery approach-based blue ways of exploiting marine resources will be developed, paving the way for a climate-neutral, environmentally sustainable, and resource-efficient food and feed sectors in Europe.

Fisheries and aquaculture sidestream biomass will be processed to create food supplements and the sidestreams thereof will be used for a) the production of biomaterials, b) the production of low marine salmon feeds and c) the cultivation of microalgae using fish hydrolysate nanofiltration permeates rich in minerals and water soluble nitrogenous compounds of small molecular weight.

The cultivated microalgae biomass will be fractionated for maximum value creation.

Solids will be used in functional food products, such as bread, and oil and water soluble fractions, rich in antioxidants and immune stimulating compounds will be exploited as nutritional supplements.

The contribution of the Swedish partner will be to test anti-inflammatory effects of these new nutritional supplements in an animal (in collaboration with Heraklion University) and human model.

The latter will also include investigation of their potential beneficial effect on male infertility, which is believed to be linked to chronic inflammation.