Abstract
ActFast aims to identify, validate, and demonstrate climate change adaptation and mitigation solutions tailored for European aquaculture, alongside opportunities to increase sustainable production. Targeting regions where aquaculture is deeply integrated into the socio-economic fabric, the project will map climate hazards across the Mediterranean Sea, Deltas, Central-Eastern European inland waters, and North-East Atlantic Ocean, utilizing historical data, predictions, stakeholder insights, and satellite surveys. Integrating this comprehensive data analysis, the project will develop a user-friendly early warning system for the Mediterranean region empowering aquafarmers to proactively manage and mitigate climate risks. ActFast will promote the development of fast and replicable climate solutions for marine, transitional, and freshwater aquaculture by integrating climate prediction models with targeted solutions in four target regions. Given the unique impacts and sensitivities of the targeted areas and aquaculture systems, ActFast aims to design mitigation strategies that consider both regional and species-specific characteristics, boosting the productive efficiency, health, and well-being of farmed fish and mollusks struggling against climate change's impacts, increasing and diversifying production in coastal and rural areas, promoting economic growth and community resilience, and minimizing environmental impact and shrinking European aquaculture's carbon footprint. The proposed innovations will be shared through an inclusive dissemination and communication plan, while the market uptake of the results and outputs will be ensured by a detailed exploitation strategy. To achieve maximum exploitation, dissemination, and knowledge transfer, ActFast will develop and implement a "Virtual ActFast Lighthouse", an immersive demo-training virtual reality collecting data from diverse experiments and field operations conducted across multiple work packages
Project details
Unibo Team Leader: Alessio Bonaldo
Unibo involved Department/s:
Dipartimento di Scienze Mediche Veterinarie
Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Augusto Righi"
Coordinator:
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna(Italy)
Other Participants:
Institut de Recerca i Tecnologia Agroalimentàries - IRTA
(Spain)
National Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries
(Egypt)
Hellenic Centre For Marine Research
(Greece)
Philosofish Anonymi Etaireia (Philosofish Sa)
(Greece)
Federation Europeenne Des Producteurs Aquacoles Association (Feap)
(France)
Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo Sui Cambiamenti Climatici (Fondazione Cmcc)
(Italy)
AquaBioTech Limited
(Malta)
H2o Scitech Instytut Wody
(Poland)
Cromaris Dionicko Drustvo Za Marikulturu
(Croatia)
Ntt Data Europe & Latam Green Engineering Sl
(Spain)
Fundacion Azti - Azti Fundazioa
(Spain)
Nofima As
(Norway)
Garant - Tiernahrung Gesellschaft Gmbh
(Austria)
Planetek Italia S.R.L.
(Italy)
ISPRA - Istituto Superiore per la protezione e la ricerca ambientale
(Italy)
Innova Srl
(Italy)
Acondicionamiento Tarrasense Associacion
(Spain)
Centre International De Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Mediterraneennes
(France)
Kozep Es Kelet Europai Akvakulturakozpontok Egyesulet
(Hungary)
NATUREDULIS srl
(Italy)
Skretting Aquaculture Research Centre As
(Norway)
Benchmark Genetics Norway As
(Norway)
G20 Storitve Doo
(Slovenia)
Biharugrai Halgazdasag Korlatolt Felelossegu Tarsasag
(Hungary)
Sea Gust
(Tunisia)
Total Eu Contribution: Euro (EUR) 4.497.394,07
Project Duration in months: 48
Start Date:
01/06/2025
End Date:
31/05/2029
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101181159