Cooperation in Fisheries, Aquaculture and Seafood Processing (COFASP) is an ERA-NET created to directly address actions envisaged within fisheries, aquaculture and seafood. It was created as under the KBBE theme in FP7, and is part of the Europe 2020 strategy, which recognises bioeconomy as an important part of the strategy. The main objectives of COFASP are:
- To lay the basis for exploitation according to the precautionary principles and to enhance innovation in and competiveness of the primary sectors fisheries and aquaculture as well as subsequent seafood processing and distribution to the consumer.
- To define the science, information and data necessary to underpin the revision of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) and to ensure its successful implementation by designing complementary national research programmes and outlining monitoring and information/data sharing systems needed.
CALL TOPICS AND OBJECTIVES
- FISHERIES
- Mapping and modelling of the environmental, economic and social effects of the fishing sector under different schemes of maximisation of resource efficiency and minimization of carbon footprint
- Developing techniques and strategies to assess the impact of coastal fisheries on sensitive habitats in a context of sustainable exploitation of fishery resources.
- AQUACULTURE
- Developing water treatment technology and technologies to increase water/feed efficiency to lower the production cost and the environmental impact of aquaculture.
- Developing strategies to increase efficiency of aquaculture production (e.g. feed conversion ratio, reduction of the time to slaughter …).
- Developing strategies to decrease waste effluents and bio-deposit impacts (for mariculture and inland aquaculture).
- SEAFOOD PRODUCTION
- Mapping the environmental, economic and social aspects of the fish processing industry...
- Developing new strategies to appropriately manage and use the entire harvest of fish products...
- Developing new technology/techniques in the processing sector to adjust to changes in raw materials (e.g. species, size).
- TRANS-SECTORIAL
- Developing life cycle assessment of the whole chain...
- Developing methodology in which impacts of all activities linked to seafood can be determined...
- Optimization of fish meals from limited fisheries resources in breeding for aquaculture requests and competitive use (e.g. poultry production)
- Developing methodology to quantify the ecological footprint and the impact on biodiversity...
- Developing methodologies and models to determine and manage the impacts of a multitude of activities...
WHO CAN APPLY?
Project consortia are eligible if they consist of partners from at least three COFASP partner countries (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, UK) providing cash funding for the call.
For Greek Universities funding is 100% and is provided by GSRT.
Deadlines
15/4/2015 (Mandatory pre-registration)
17/6/2015 (full-proposal submission)
