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The 2nd Chapter of the EnhanceMicroAlgae Comic is already available! In this new adventure, Spiruline and her friends will help the mareel people, whose lives are threatened by toxic waste dumps and the pollution of the waters they have inhabited...Read More

The January 2021 edition of the EnhanceMicroAlagae Newsletter has been released and can be found by clicking here. This month’s newsletter brings news of PBR culture trials and the University of Manchester, a breakdown of recent publications, and provides a list...Read More

EnhanceMicroAlgae partners at CIIMAR (Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research), University of Porto, are studying the potential applications of high-value extracts and exopolysaccharides (EPS) from cyanobacteria (also called blue-green algae). In their latest works, they valorise Cyanobium sp. LEGE 06113...Read More

The November 2020 edition of the EnhanceMicroAlagae Newsletter has been released and can be found by clicking here. This month’s newsletter Promotes some of the latest publications from the EMA project, shows of how to download the EnhanceMicroAlgae Comicbook, and gives...Read More

You can now download the EnhanceMicroAlgae Comic, created by Xulia Pison, for free by clicking here To celebrate the release of the comic, we are also showing a sneak peak of Ardora, the Noctiluca Scintillans who will appear in the...Read More

EnhanceMicroAlgae partners at La Rochelle University (La Rochelle University/CNRS UMR 7266 LIENSs) are developing innovative processes to extract and purify microalgae pigments and original applications of microalgae pigments to kill cancer cells and sensitize cancer cells to the cytotoxic effect...Read More

The September 2020 edition of the EnhanceMicroAlagae Newsletter has been released and can be found by clicking here. This month’s newsletter highlight’s Project Partner Hijos de Rivera S.A, promotes some recent publications from within the project, as well as much more In...Read More

The August 2020 edition of the EnhanceMicroAlagae Newsletter has been released and can be found by clicking here. This month’s newsletter highlight’s recent publications, shows off the backstory of the EnhanceMicroAlgae comic, and gives some background to project partner ALGAE...Read More

Following on from a successful presentation at the EnhanceMicroAlgae Webinar, we have asked comic book author  Xulia Pisón a few questions to find out more about her:   How/why did you become an illustrator, and how long have you been one?...Read More

The July 2020 edition of the EnhanceMicroAlagae Newsletter has been released and can be found by clicking here. This month’s newsletter highlight’s recent publications, discusses some of the tools offered on the EnhanceMicroAlgae Website, highlights recent events EMA partners have...Read More

We would like to take the time to thank all of you who attended the first EnhanceMicroAlgae Webinar on Thursday 16th July. We hope that you found it interesting to know more about the project, the tools available through the...Read More

The June 2020 edition of the EnhanceMicroAlagae Newsletter has been released and can be found by clicking here. This month’s newsletter highlight’s one of the Project’s associated partners, Promotes some recent publications from within the project, and provides some more information...Read More

The EnhanceMicroAlgae team will be hosting a Webinar on Thursday 16th July, in which the EhanceMicroAlgae team will present  the virtual tools developed within the project, as well as the other deliverables of importance for the microalgae community. The Webinar...Read More

The May 2020 edition of the EnhanceMicroAlagae Newsletter has been released and can be found by clicking here.   This month’s newsletter highlight’s one of the Project’s associated partners, discusses some of the tools offered on the EnhanceMicroAlgae Website, promotes various...Read More

The April 2020 edition of the EnhanceMicroAlagae Newsletter has been released and can be found by clicking here.   This month’s newsletter outlines how the project is responding to the challenges of the corona-virus pandemic, provides a list of all publications...Read More

The March 2020 edition of the EnhanceMicroAlagae Newsletter has been released and can be found by clicking here.   This month’s newsletter promotes some of the research outputs coming out of the EnhanceMicroAlagae project, highlights some of our recent publications,...Read More

Notice: In light of the on-going coronavirus outbreak and the evolving governmental measures taken across Europe to tackle the virus, the upcoming EnhanceMicroAlgae Manchester conference originally scheduled to take place on June 17-18, 2020 will be postponed. We expect to...Read More

The February 2020 Edition of the EnhanceMicroAlgae Newsletter has been released, and can be seen here.   This edition holds information on applications of Microalgae, a look at the second part of the EnhanceMicroAlgae Comic, some guidance on our new...Read More

Notice: In light of the on-going coronavirus outbreak and the evolving governmental measures taken across Europe to tackle the virus, the upcoming EnhanceMicroAlgae Manchester conference originally scheduled to take place on June 17-18, 2020 will be postponed. We expect to...Read More

The First Enhance Microalgae Newsletter of 2020 has been released, and can be seen here.   This edition contains information on some of our project partners, events we have been involved in, a spotlight on our new stakeholder’s database, and...Read More

The University of Manchester has welcomed Elisabeth Bermejo Padilla to the Enhance MicroAlgae research team. In order to introduce herself, we asked Elisabeth to tell us a bit about herself: I am a researcher with a strong background working on...Read More

The Enhance Microalgae project will be hosting the conference “Enhancing microalgae potential: From microalgal strains to products” in Manchester on June 17-18th 2020. The conference will bring together academics and industrialists to promote knowledge transfer and discussion of research and...Read More

The November 2019 Issue of the Enhance Microaglae newsletter has been released, with news on updates on the project, as well as information on our participation in conferences and workshops, with an update on the next conference being hosted by...Read More

Diogo Cruz, Enhance Microalgae Project partner from CIIMAR delivered a seminar on Friday 15th November as a part of CIIMAR’s weekly seminar scheme. Diogo’s seminar outlined how the Enhance Microgalgae project is hooping to increase the competitiveness of micro-algal industries...Read More

Members of the EnhanceMicroAlgae project, María José, Martiña and Diogo Cruz, together with the coordinators of the European Blue Biobank (EBB) project (https://www.bluebiobank.eu/project/), participated in the Business2Sea forum, and on November 12th delivered a workshop titled  Fostering development of microalgal-based industries:...Read More

During the 21-22 of October, the Associação Portuguesa de Algologia Aplicada (APAA) Conference was held at CIIMAR (Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research of the University of Porto). EnhanceMicroAlgae was mentioned (presentation slide below) as one of the projects...Read More

The October 2019 Issue of the Enhance Microaglae newsletter has been released, with news on updates on the project, as well as information on our participation in conferences and workshops. Click here to view this month’s newsletter, or subscribe below...Read More

The latest edition of our Newsletter has been released, and contains information on our Swansea event in September. Click here to view the newsletter, and fill in your details at the bottom of the page to subscribe to have future...Read More

On September 12th, 2019, the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL), leader of the WP3 of EnhanceMicroAlgae project, organised the first edition of Sciencepreneurs, gathering several teams that are focused on developing innovative technologies to solve some of the global grand...Read More

On the 26th September, EnhanceMicroAlgae partners at FCUP/CIIMAR were present in a workshop: Macro y microalgas como fuente de bioproductos e ingredientes nutricionales en Acuicultura under the scope of another Interreg España-Portugal project. This workshop aimed to get together research...Read More

Team members from FCUP/CIIMAR took part in the Dia do Porto de Leixões open day on the 21st September, during which they prepared a scenery wall, were we made a poster presenting the comic and on the left side of the wall...Read More

The EnhanceMicroAlgae team at FCUP/CIIMAR participated in the XVI International Symposium on Marine Natural Products | XI European Conference on Marine Natural Products held in Peniche, Portugal, from 1-5 September 2019. During the DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT poster session, Diogo...Read More

Registration for the LIMBAC (Lisbon Microalgae Biotechnology Advanced Course) 2019 is now open. Being run by project partners Algae for Future, the LIMBAC provides an insight into the concepts of the microaglae industry, through a combination of hands on sessions...Read More

Members of the EnhanceMicroAlgae (EMA) team participated in two international congresses on microalgae last April 2019:   The 9th European Algae Industry Summit (10-11 April, 2019 – Lisbon, Portugal) that explored the ongoing developments of the algae industry, The 7th...Read More

On September 12th 2019 the EnhanceMicroAlgae team at Swansea University offered a successful workshop on microalgae cultivation and downstream processing. Attendees from across Europe toured the facilities within the Department of Biosciences and experienced first-hand how to handle and culture...Read More

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