Last year, the European Commission under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, launched the Sustainable Blue Economy call focused on 4 strands:
Strand 1: Demonstration & market,
Strand 2: Fighting marine litter,
Strand 3: Blue networks in the Mediterranean and
Strand 4: Restoring marine ecosystems in the Mediterranean.
In total, there were 22 new sustainable blue projects selected, composed by 104 companies from 22 countries and sharing €15.1 million.
One of the 5 projects funded under marine litter is AQUA-LIT, a two-year project which main objective is to provide the aquaculture sector with a toolbox of innovative ideas and methodologies that can showcase existing, upcoming and already implemented tools, case studies, best practices, a database and links between stakeholders to address the 3 main components of marine littering:
Prevention & reduction,
Monitoring & quantification, and
Removal & recycling.
Given its potential for aquaculture growth, the toolbox will be focused mainly on three sea basins: the Mediterranean, the North Sea and the Baltic Sea regions.
More information at: https://aqua-lit.eu
