Foodimar Project
Project FOODIMAR is a three-year Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership project that aims to develop new industry-relevant solutions for valorising key side-streams from fisheries and aquaculture in climate-friendly, sustainable, high-quality, food applications. Foodimar pushes the boundaries of current practices through recovering nutrients, reducing environmental impact (climate-friendly extraction processes), species diversification (jellyfish, whitefish, sea bream), and adding value to fish side-streams (production, processing), thereby making existing food systems more diverse, profitable and resource efficient.
Bythos Project
Project BYTHOS, or Biotechnologies For Human Health and Blue Growth, transformed fish waste from the aquaculture sector into biotechnological products, including fish oils and collagen, reducing waste and creating economic value through such a circular economy approach. This group of researchers in fact managed to utilise side streams from the fish processing industry so as to extract molecules useful for human and animal wellbeing. It was led by the University of Palermo, with a number of Maltese partners participating as well, including academics from the University of Malta.