News

EnhanceMicroAlgae partners at CIIMAR will be part of the 11th edition of “Dia do Porto de Leixões” on the 21st of September at the Leixões Cruise Terminal, Portugal. The event will include lab visits, intertidal zoning aquariums, paintings, children story-telling...Read More

The Decision Support Tool created by Kevin Flynn, Enhance Micro algae research partner from Swansea University, has been given a huge update, going into further depth on microalgae growth, culture systems, and the use of simulation. We invite you to check...Read More

The First Enhance Microalgae Newsletter has been released and sent to subscribers, covering project updates from the past few weeks. To never miss a newsletter, and to stay up to date with the project, simply enter your details in the...Read More

Members of the Enhance Microalgae team presented at the Future algae and Fungi technology congress, in Japan on 13-14th May. In doing so, Dr Judith Rumin and Dr Laurent Picot of  University of La Rochelle presented 30 minute talks relating...Read More

The entire of the first section of the Decision Support Book is available now on the DST page for all to view! Check out the page for more information on the Decision Support Tool, and to download the updated book which...Read More

In February 2019, members of the Enhance Microalgae team participated in the European Commission’s Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy workshop titled “Algae production in Europe: status, challenges and future developments”.  This workshop connected relevant specialists from the algae industry, and was...Read More

An international symposium dedicated to research, innovation and industrial development of the microalgae sector in the European Atlantic area took place in La Rochelle on December 12th, 2018. The invited microalgae experts from the Atlantic area countries and project partners...Read More

Members of the Enhance Microalgae team from Université de La Rochelle have completed a bibliometric analysis of microalgae publications in the European Atlantic Arc and Europe. The findings from this analysis can be found in the two following presentations: Analysis of...Read More

Swansea University researchers involved in WP7 of the ENHANCE Microalgae project (https://www.enhancemicroalgae.eu/), have finished successfully the first culture trial in their brand new Phyco-Flow Photobioreactor (http://www.variconaqua.com/). Isochrysis galbana was the microalgae chosen to test the new PBR. Isochrysis is a...Read More

The third chapter of our decision support tool book is available for viewing now.   Either view the book here, or visit our dedicated pageRead More

The University of Manchester have welcomed Gonzalo Figueroa-Torres to the team of researchers who will be working on the Enahnce Microalgae project. By way of introduction, we asked Gonzalo to provide a bit of information about himself: I am a...Read More

Dr Claudio Fuentes Grunewald, researcher involved in WP7 of EnhanceMicroAlgae project, was invited by Instituto Tecnológico de Canarias, to give a presentation in the “Harmful Algal Biotechnology” workshop on the 22nd and 23rd of May, 2019. Dr Fuentes Grunewald gave...Read More

Swansea University, leader of the Work Package 7: “Knowledge Research & development towards value application” of the ENHANCE microalgae project has received in mid-April a brand new photobioreactor (in the photo, Phyco-Flow©). This new glass system is the most up...Read More

The latest chapter of our Decision Support Tool is out! Check on the dedicated section to see it!Read More

Have a look to the new Decision Support Tool! It will help you to better understand the production of microalgae through simulations created by a member of the research team. We also have an accompanying textbook, with new chapters being released...Read More

To help explain microalgae, we’ve developed a comic. Get a sneak peak and meet the characters clicking here!   Meet the author @ https://lnkd.in/dQPRwR2 (page available in Spanish or Galician).Read More

The objective of this project is to exploit the biotechnology potential of microalgae in the Atlantic area, to enhance the value of this resource by transferring the latest developments in this field to the business sector, thereby facilitating production of...Read More

Last Thursday 11th and Friday 12th, the launching meeting of the project “High added-value industrial opportunities for microalgae in the Atlantic Area – EnhanceMicroAlgae”, led by ANFACO-CECOPESCA, took place at the CYTMA, Centre for Advanced Research Technologies for the Marine...Read More

The Kick Off meeting of the project took place on 11-12 January 2018 at Anfaco-Cecopesca (Vigo, Spain), with all the partners working in launching the project. Stay tuned!Read More