- Last presentation on the BestBrood proyect. Our Coordinator, Dr. Jorge Galindo-Villegas spoke on October 5, 2023 to a wide audience at the ForoAcui in Galicia, Spain. The forum is a major gathering for global industrial representatives.
- BESTBROOD was present at the latest edition of the prestigious event EAS 2023. The European Aquaculture society hosted their annual meeting in Wien, Austria from September 18-22, 2023. Partners from Greece, Italy, Spain, and Norway lecture on the findings achieved by the project.
- Greater Amberjack workshop conducted online for the Greek aquaculture industry on July 26, 2023.
- A workshop on spotted_wolffish and lumpfish immune reproduction advancements and practical aspects was conducted on June 13-14, 2023, at Akva Plan-Niva in Tromsø. Participants from the Northern universities in Norway were invited and trained by the BESTBROOD partners Nord University and Akva Plan-Niva headquarters.
- Senegalese sole workshop conducted at IFAPA Centro El Toruño on May 25-26, 2023.
- We are thrilled to launch the BESTBROOD official video!! It is an excellent piece summarizing the project. CLICK on the image to enjoy it!!
- The BESTBROOD crew is heading south. We will be at the “12th International Symposium on Reproductive Physiology of Fish”. Some of the results achieved so far will be presented among the excellent oral and poster sessions programmed. Moreover, Dr. Constatino C. Mylonas (Dinos), director of the HCMR, will be the event’s Chair. Thus, disseminating the BESTBROOD project objectives and achievements will be addressed using variated approaches.
- Representative members of the BESTBROOD crew were present at the Radisson Red, London, UK, or attended online between April 27-28, 2023, the last live meeting of the consortia. We discussed the latest advancements while identifying the missing tasks and associated deliverables to end the project on time. We are proud that significant species-specific advances have been achieved. Stay tuned to discover the knowledge developed by the seven partners in the project for the four emerging fish species under research.
- The next congress stop for the BESTBROOD project starts early in 2023 with its participation in the BlueBio Training course: “Blue Bio-refinery technologies: from research to the industry with applications on products and biomaterial from algal biomass and sidestreams of fisheries and aquaculture.” The University of Foggia, Foggia (Italy), 15-18 January 2023. Our project coordinator will give a talk to present the industrial applications achieved by the project and explain the constraints found so far in implementing the same.
- BESTBROOD will present some groundbreaking results to close the year at the 4th Congress of the International Society of Fish & Shellfish Immunology (4th ISFSI). Moreover, the project coordinators’ group will be hosting the event! So, the BESTBROOD project promotion is guaranteed.
- On 2nd October, Nord University celebrated Open-doors Day (FBA, Åpen Bukt). The project leader, Dr. Jorge Galind-Villegas, informed the public about the wolffish biology and the aims followed by the BESTBROOD Project. To show synergies between projects, the EPIFISH project also joins the effort. The local community was amazed at the live fish and the achievements explained. They enjoyed the “Recycled-PaperFish” activity, where the BESTBROOD and EPIFISH staff taught children the importance of a clean environment following recycling.
- The BESTBROOD project presented and discussed some of its groundbreaking results in Gdansk, Poland at the 8th International Workshop on the Biology of Fish Gametes (September 20-23, 2022).
- On September 14-15, 2022, the BESTBROOD Coordinator will be in Cadiz, Spain, introducing the project and its achievements at the INTERNATIONAL BLUE INNOVATION FORUM. The forum fosters transnational bridges, coordinates policies, and reinforces cooperation and innovation actions between the Mediterranean Innovation Alliance for Sustainable Blue Bioeconomy (MedIA-SBB) and the Coastal Atlantic Alliance for Blue Growth Atlazul.
- BESTBROOD was present in Wageningen, The Netherlands, at the 21st edition of the Fish Immunology Workshop (April 24-28, 2022).
- Joshua Superior, an associated Ph.D. to the BESTBROOD project at Nord University, got recognition at the student’s spotlight award by the EAS.
- BESTBROOD was present in Motril, Spain at the III Congreso de Jovenes Investigadores del Mar (September 4-6, 2021)
- Proyecto BESTBROOD: viabilidad económica de la acuicultura de especies emergentes.
- Avvio attività progetto H2020 BlueBio ERA-NET “BESTBROOD” — Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy.
- Project Kick-off meeting.
- 2020. Sept – BESTBROOD project kick-off meeting online.