Italy.- The AdriAquaNet project aim at creating a lasting dialogue between Italian and Croatian research, businesses and public authorities on how to bring the Adriatic Sea aquaculture to technological and market excellence.
The AdriAquaNet project, funded by the EU Interreg V Italy-Croatia Program 2014-2020 and led by a group of researchers from the University of Udine, brings together six other research institutions, including the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie (IZSVe), the Association of fish farmers from Croatia and four fish farming companies operating in Italy and Croatia. This community, which has about 100 experts, will work for two and a half years in the first technical-scientific cooperation initiative ever, with the aim of transferring advanced knowledge and new technologies throughout the whole aquaculture supply chain, from the management of the production plants up to the processed products market.
The project was presented to the Croatian government authorities and companies in in Split on 31 may 2019. The inaugural ceremony will be held aslo in Udine on 24 June 2019, with the aim of encouraging the involvement of aquaculture working communities and of the authorities responsible for territorial management on both sides of the Adriatic Sea.
The project starts from the recognition of the innovation and development needs expressed by the industries and from the knowledge and technologies available in the research institutions. Each research organization will have the task to encourage the technological applications in the fish farming companies that will experience innovations. After the first pilot phase, the technical-scientific training of the sector’s employees will follow, both in Italy and in Croatia.
Editor at the digital magazine AquaHoy. He holds a degree in Aquaculture Biology from the National University of Santa (UNS) and a Master’s degree in Science and Innovation Management from the Polytechnic University of Valencia, with postgraduate diplomas in Business Innovation and Innovation Management. He possesses extensive experience in the aquaculture and fisheries sector, having led the Fisheries Innovation Unit of the National Program for Innovation in Fisheries and Aquaculture (PNIPA). He has served as a senior consultant in technology watch, an innovation project formulator and advisor, and a lecturer at UNS. He is a member of the Peruvian College of Biologists and was recognized by the World Aquaculture Society (WAS) in 2016 for his contribution to aquaculture.
