Categoría: Event

OUAS presents the SPL at the 7th PrintoCent Industry Seminar – PRINSE’22 in June 8–9, 2022

Our partners from OAMK attended PRINSE22 seminar in Oulu on June 8–9, 2022, where they presented the SPL hardware functionality to more than 200 participants from more than 50 companies and organisations.

PRINSE’22 covered topics from printed intelligence to system-level reliable, sustainable and eco-friendly solutions for Future Products.

This inspiring international event hosted +200 participants around the world, while offering an excellent setting for networking and matchmaking. More than 50 industrial companies were present. To facilitate collaboration with the great experts from industry leaders, they also had an interactive Innovation Market Place and Bazaar with demos.

Workshop on INNOVATION AND CIRCULAR ECONOMY FOR THE CREATION OF FOOD PRODUCTS (on line, 15th June)

An online workshop is being organised in Spain on 15th of June (11:00 AM to 13:00 AM), which is being coordinated by CETMAR in collaboration with the Galicia Food & Drink Cluster (CLUSAGA), as a capitalization action of SEAFOOD-AGE project.

This event is aimed at showing to the industry the advances on the RTE food product from the SEAFOOD-AGE project, together with another project from the Atlantic Area, AHFES.  

It will be held in Spanish and Galician language.

Registration is free HERE, but needed to receive the link of the event.

Agenda:

The SEAFOOD-AGE project promotes the responsible consumption at the World Oceans Day!

Our partners from the IIM-CSIC took part of the «Feira do Océano» organised by their institution to celebrate the World Oceans Day.

The first edition of this Ocean Fair was celebrated on 8th of June as a scientific dissemination fair where the IIM-CSIC took to the streets to meet the citizens of Vigo.

The Fair was held throughout the day under the tents installed in the Bouzas neighborhood. In the morning, the researchers received the students of IES Beade and the schools Javier Sensat, Atlántida, Virxe do Rocío and Mestre Manuel García. And in the afternoon the workshops were opened to the general public.

With the slogan «Choose smart food» the group led by Eva Balsa-Canto showed several results of the project: the production of ingredients and food of marine origin using circular economy concepts, the use of DNA-based techniques for the identification of ingredients or an intelligent label that allows monitoring the quality of food throughout the chain.

SEAFOOD-AGE project counted with the participation of Rogelio Santos Queiruga, as guest of honor.

The well-known seafood expert Rogelio Santos Queiruga was present all day at the fair, chatting with the kids. Rogelio has been working for 27 years, out of his 45, as a sailor, fisherman and disseminator of the values of the sea and fishing. He is promoter of sustainability, science, and responsible consumption as keys to a better future and he shares the values of our project.

The media echoed the news and the regional television reported on the fair in situ.

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Workshop on FOOD FOR THE ELDERLY. Opportunities to innovate faced with the challenges of well-ageing (Quimper, 16th June)

A hybrid workshop (on-site and online) is being held in France on 16th of June (4:30 PM to 6:30 PM). This workshop is being organised by TQC and Abyss ingredients, as a capitalization action of SEAFOOD-AGE project.

Target audience: food & nutrition and health nutrition companies.

Language: FRENCH

Registration: free, but an email to rozenn.levaillant@tech-quimper.fr is needed to receive the link of the event.

Programme:

  • Behaviors, preferences and dietary of the elderly, Isabelle MAITRE, Teacher-researcher, ESA Angers
  • Illustrations through 3 testimonies:

Preventing undernutrition in the elderly through food pleasure in EHPAD: approach of collaborative innovation in French Cornwall (NutriCHIC), Catherine CORRE et Martin KERVADEC, Intercommunal Hospital Center of Cornwall

Valorization of marine by-products in terms of health and well-being of the elderly (Brainbooster), Elodie BOUVRET, Abyss Ingrédients

European partnership and eco-innovative dynamics in favor of seniors food (Seafood Age), Rozenn LE VAILLANT, Technopole Quimper-Cornouaille

OAMK attending the PacTec, FoodTec & PlastExpo Nordic in Helsinki, Finland

Harri Määttä, from Oulu University of Applied Sciences Ltd., has been attending the PacTec, FoodTec & PlastExpo Nordic in Helsinki, Finland. Expo is the leading industrial event for the packaging, food and drink, and plastics industries in Northern Europe. (https://pfsptec.messukeskus.com/?lang=en)

He has been discussing with companies about the possibility to use technology in food value chains and packaging and also presenting the results of their work in the Seafood Age project.

The trade events for the packaging, food and drink, and plastics industries – PacTec, FoodTec and PlastExpo Nordic – has brought together industry professionals at Messukeskus in Helsinki. The event package covered the entire value chains of these industries, from design to use, and from marketing to raw materials. The graphics industry event Sign, Print & Promotion was a part of the event package, as well as. The events were co-organised with the Finnish Packaging Association, the Finnish Food and Drink Industries’ Federation and the Finnish Plastics Association.

Indigo Rock Marine Research at the “Seaweed around the clock” event

Our Irish partners are giving a presentation at “Seaweed around the clock” on the 2nd June and will be also part of the “Irish booth”.

About Event

The Marine Institute, Bord Iascaigh Mhara and DAFM are sponsoring a virtual booth for Ireland at the global online Seaweed Around the Clock event.

Seaweed Around the Clock is the second edition of the largest global seaweed event uniting people and businesses of all backgrounds in order to talk about the growing seaweed industry.

It will be all about raising awareness, showcasing innovations and funding organic seaweed farming. The objective: with the support of the non-profit Seaweed First, the aim is to raise funds in order to support sustainable seaweed projects globally during the first 24h Seaweed Telethon.

The booth/platform is open from June 1st until July 2nd. The event itself takes place over 24 hours on June 2nd, with a showcase of Irish stakeholders from 3-4pm.

Further information about the event can be found here: https://seaweedaroundtheclock.vfairs.com/ where free register for the event is open. Last year there were >5,000 attendees for a 16 hour live streamed event. This year it will be held for 24 hours and will have a virtual platform, like a conference which will allow:

  • Watch live debates, keynotes, cooking & fashion shows
  • Click & Meet ! Connect from June 2nd to July 1st
  • Explore Exhibition Hall and poster presentations
  • Support organic seaweed projects through a donation platform

The third blind tasting session was organised by CETMAR on May 5, 2022 at the senior center “Os Cortizos»

Within the activities scheduled for the SEAFOOD-AGE project, our partner CETMAR organized on May 5 a new blind tasting session among the potencial consumers (people > 65).

After the success of the last two events held in Ourense and Vigo, on this occasion the event took place at the senior center “Os Cortizos” located in Redondela (Vigo) where 24 attendees, divided on two groups, had the opportunity to taste three different recipes made with SEAFOOD-AGE products.

In order of collecting relevant information to improve the products and know their future reception, the participants were invited to express their opinion through a form in which they were asked about the appearance, smell and taste of the different dishes.

The event ended with an explanation about the objectives of the project, the elaboration of the products and the packaging thanks to which the attendees were able to learn a little more about SEAFOOD-AGE.

Finally, the attendees were given gift packages made up of a tote bag inside which there was a spoon, a snack bag and an information flyer about the project.

Collaboration from IIM, OPROMAR, IRMRS, IPMA, BENBOA, NOTPLA, Fundación Dorzán, Centro de día Os Cortizos and CETMAR was appreciated during the organization of in this event.

Oral and poster communications by INL at BioIberoAmerica 2022

After the editions of Salamanca and Brasilia, the BioIberoAmerica Congress held its 3rd edition in Braga – Portugal, April 7-9, 2022.

BioIberoAmerica 2022 is a unique congress that brings together scientists, entrepreneurs, industry and clinical representatives, who develop their research and work in the area of biotechnology.

This three-day event featured oral presentations, poster sessions, debates, workshops and parallel sessions. The topics covered the different areas of biomedicine and biomaterials, agricultural, marine, food, environmental and industrial biotechnology (bioenergy and bioremediation), molecular biotechnology, systems biology and metabolic engineering, bioreactors, biocatalysis, separation processes and biosensors, biotechnology, Nanobiotechnology, Bioinformatics, Ethics and Society. In this edition, BioIberoAmerica 2022 participants were invited to submit their papers on a new research topic – Sustainable Food Systems in Iberoamerica.

Our colleagues from the INL have participated in the congress, where they presented their papers related to some of the articles developed under the SEAFOOD-AGE.

In other sections of the website you can find the poster and the presentation made by our colleagues.

Successful tasting of the RTE SEAFOOD-AGE product

On April 7, a blind tasting of seafood products for people over 65 years old was held in Vigo. This was the second tasting, after the one held in Orense last October.

The event, which took place at the headquarters of Afundación in Vigo, included a talk on healthy eating given by the nutrition expert Mr. Manuel Penín, an hedonic test of food products and a group product evaluation.

In order for the tasting participants to be as objective as possible, the details of the products to be tasted were made known at the end of the activity.

Both the training on healthy eating and the product tasting activity were very well received. Thirty-four people participated in the talk and thirty-one in the tasting. Three different recipes were tasted and discussed after the tasting. In addition, the SEAFOOD-AGE project was presented to the participants.

The product was well accepted and aroused a lot of interest, both with regard to the nutritional approach and the use of discards and the revaluation of marine products.

Afundación and Espazo+60 collaborated in the development of the activity, both with the people who attended and with the cession of their facilities.

Collaboration from IIM, OPROMAR, IRMRS, IPMA, BENBOA, NOTPLA, Fundación Dorzán and CETMAR was appreciated during the organization of in this event.

Seafood-Age project presented at the Business2Sea 2021 event

Past November 18th from 10:00h to 11:30h, our coordinator Eva Balsa-Canto was presenting “Strategies for the Green Deal at SEAFOOD-AGE Project” at the workshop on «Green technologies and circular economy towards climate change mitigation and sustainability»

The 11th edition of this event was organised by Forum Oceano and Fundación CETMAR in a hybrid format in Vigo, Spain.