FOODIMAR

Sustainable climate-Friendly quality fOOD Ingredients from Marine side-stReams. FOODIMAR is dedicated to creating innovative, cost-effective, and climate-friendly methods to produce high-quality marine collagen, gelatin, and glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) from fisheries and aquaculture side-streams. With the smart valorization of these side-streams and promoting a circular economy, we aim to boost the physical and economic resilience of Europe's seafood value chains while ensuring environmental sustainability. Our innovations surpass current standards and support further development, assessment, training, knowledge transfer, industry adoption, and job creation. In the long run, FOODIMAR will provide a clear, reproducible blueprint for sustainable, high-quality food solutions, ensuring food and nutrition security within our planet's limits. FOODIMAR started in May 2024 and will run for three years. We bring together 6 partners from 6 countries working across 3 sea basins. Co-funded by the European Commission as part o the Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership Funding partners: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (DE), Jülich Forschungszentrum (DE), The Research Council of Norway (NO), Innovationsfonden (DK), FORMAS (SE), Tübitak (TK) and FWO (BE)