VALUEMAG

Valuable Products from Algae Using New Magnetic Cultivation and Extraction Techniques

Project details

Type of project: Research & Innovation Action
Project focus: Food, feed & cosmetics
Feedstock origin: Aquatic
Feedstock type: Micro/macro algae

Project period: 1 April 2017 - 31 July 2020
Status: Completed
CBE JU Contribution: € 4 789 000,00
Call identifier: H2020-BBI-JTI-2016

Summary

It is estimated that by the 2050 world population will exceed nine billion adding pressure to the demand for more energy, food, recycled nutrients and water. Interdisciplinary research projects like VALUEMAG have the potential to offer a valid alternative: large-scale rapid biomass production.

Micro-algae produce approximately one half of the oxygen generated on earth while simultaneously consuming CO2 during photosynthesis and fixing NOx during their anabolism. Moreover, biomass from micro-algae is a promising source of primary/secondary metabolite products with considerable use in the aquaculture, food additive industry, bio-fertilization, pharmaceutical and cosmetic industry.

VALUEMAG aims to provide ground-breaking solutions for microalgae production and harvesting as well as scaling up biomass transformation systems in order to provide new technologies for aquatic/marine biomass integrated bio-refineries.

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Project coordination

ETHNICON METSOVION POLYTECHNION ATHINA, Greece

Consortium

NOMASICO LTD NICOSIA, Cyprus
PNO CONSULTANTS Paris, France
AGENZIA NAZIONALE PER LE NUOVE TECNOLOGIE, L'ENERGIA E LO SVILUPPO ECONOMICO SOSTENIBILE ROMA, Italy
VERTECH GROUP Nice, France
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA CAMPANIA LUIGI VANVITELLI Caserta, Italy
THERACELL ADVANCED BIOTECHNOLOGY LTD LONDON, United Kingdom
FYZIKALNY USTAV SLOVENSKEJ AKADEMIE VIED BRATISLAVA, Slovakia
PNO INNOVATION Zaventem, Belgium
PNO INNOVATIEADVIES BV RIJSWIJK, Netherlands
IRIS TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, SOCIEDAD LIMITADA CORNELLA DE LLOBREGAT, Spain