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EU funding (€8,554,801): Reusing Effluents from Agriculture to unLock the potential of Microalgae Hor1 Jul 2022 EU Research and Innovation programme "Horizon"
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Reusing Effluents from Agriculture to unLock the potential of Microalgae
REALM will transform nutrient-rich drain waters from soilless farms into value, by producing microalgae at reduced costs while treating water and capturing CO2 from the air. This concept will increase the circularity and profitability of microalgal production and soilless farming. The NordAqua and ALGACYCLE projects (NordForsk and EEA, respectively) have shown the feasibility of this concept in Finland and Portugal, and now REALM aims to demonstrate it at an industrial scale. Accordingly, two validation facilities will be installed in the Netherlands and Finland, and two demonstration facilities will be deployed in Portugal and Spain near soilless greenhouses. With know-how from the SABANA project (H2020), these facilities will operate photobioreactors under a turbidostatic regime (continuous harvest) for maximum productivity, using nutrient-rich wastewaters from the greenhouses. Growth and harvesting units will be powered by photovoltaic energy and automatically managed by novel sensors, while A.I.-based predictive models and a cloud-based monitoring system will assist production. Microalgal biomass will be processed by local downstream processing units using dairy industry supply chain as a working model. This concept will offer sustainable wastewater treatment technology to farmers by closing the nutrient loop and is expected to reduce microalgae production costs by >50%, whose savings will be used to increase the competitiveness of the proposed microalgae-based products, namely agrochemicals and aquafeed. A business model will be developed to propose the installation of multiple microalgae production facilities, next to soilless greenhouses, and connected to a centralised processing facility. The results generated by REALM will be disseminated so the demonstrated concept can be replicated by relevant stakeholders in all EU, while targeting several objectives established by the European Green Deal, such as working with nature to improve human health by promoting a greener industry.
Funded Companies:
| Company name | Funding amount |
| Decerna Ltd. | ? |
| Associação Oceano Verde Laboratorio Colaborativo para O Desenvolvimento de Tecnologias e Produtos Verdes do Oceano | €499,000 |
| Biorizon Biotech SL | €1,610,613 |
| EUROPEAN SCIENCE COMMUNICATION INSTITUTE (ESCI) gGmbH | €299,750 |
| Grupo Empresarial La Cana | €154,175 |
| Hubel Verde - Engenharia Agronomica SA | €148,468 |
| Interuniversitair Micro-Electronica Centrum | €299,999 |
| Necton-Companhia Portuguesa de Culturas Marinhas SA | €1,993,950 |
| S2 Aqua - LABORAToRIO Colaborativo Associação para Uma Aquacultura Sustentavel e Inteligente | €223,541 |
| STICHTING IMEC NEDERLAND | €454,763 |
| TURUN YLIOPISTO | €900,399 |
| Universidad de Almeria | €515,000 |
| Universidad de Cadiz | €135,104 |
| UNIVERSITEIT TWENTE | €299,203 |
| WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY | €1,020,838 |
Source: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101060991
The filing refers to a past date, and does not necessarily reflect the current state. The current state is available on the following page: Decerna Ltd., Cramlington.
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