Oct 23 Webinar on Ensuring the Quality of Seaweed from harvesting to stabilization
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The Norwegian Seaweed Association is hosting a webinar on October 23rd called "Ensuring the quality of cultivated seaweed from harvesting to stabilized raw material". Even though this is based in the EU/Norway, since this covers cold water species it's likely there will be something to learn for everyone. I am assuming that since the event description is in English it will be in English as well, but I can't be sure!
- Event Link
- Date & Time: 23 Oct 2024, 13:00 – 14:40 (not sure time zone...)
Description from the event page:
- How to maintain and preserve the biomass quality, with emphasis on food applications?
- Which methods and tools can be used for monitoring and control?
- How to prepare for scale-up of the seaweed industry and scenarios for the growth?
These are questions that we have tried to answer in the ERA BlueBio project "QualiSea". The webinar will present some of the outcomes from this project, where the aim has been to solve current and future challenges of the supply chain for cultivated seaweed, with emphasis on the food and feed markets. The questions have been approached from two sides, a biological, related to the biomass quality and preservation, and a hardware and modelling oriented, on tools for monitoring and tracking, logistics and supply chain design.
Programme- 13:00 - 13:20 Welcome & introduction, Inga Marie Aasen, SINTEF and Maren Sæther, Seaweed Solutions AS
- 13:20 - 13:40 How to preserve the biomass and factors affecting the stability and quality, Inga Marie Aasen, SINTEF
- 13:40 - 14:00 Seaweed harvest and transport – logistic handling tools, Sverre Marvik, ANTEO AS
- 14:00 - 14:20 New methods for quality assessments, María Guðjónsdóttir, University of Iceland
- 14:20 - 14:40 Key aspects in seaweed supply chain design, Annelies de Meyer, VITO, Belgium
- 14:40 - > Discussion & closure
