Funding for the community is guaranteed until March 2026 through NWO-KIC funding for Aquatic Food Production for the consortium project From Sea to Society.
The overall aim of the Seaweed Learning Community is to increase the collective capacity of innovating, working and learning to be able to tackle complex challenges. Members exchange insights and experiences in online and offline meetings.
Its learning agenda is managed by a steering committee. Topics include (a) selective breeding of sugar kelp; (b) improved attachment of sugar kelp; (c) interactions between mussels and seaweed and their performance in the offshore North Sea; (d) the consequences of large scale seaweed culture on the marine ecology; (e) innovative biorefinery of seaweed biomass; (f) low trophic aquaculture value chains; (g) business models for Dutch seaweed; (h) consumer acceptance and social innovation; (i) governance of cross-sector innovation for circular low trophic aquaculture in the North Sea.
Eventually, breakthroughs will find their way through the learning community to the seaweed and mussel sector workers, the processing industry, retailers, and consumers. The learning community will also translate experiences into educational programmes.
For more information contact saskia.nijhof@hz.nl.
