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The EnhanceMicroAlgae project will be hosting a workshop on the 20th October 2022 in La Rochelle, France. The workshop will focus on the latest developments in microalgae science, start-up creation, industrialisation, and experience sharing to overcome gaps and barriers to...Read More

EnhanceMicroAlgae partners at Swansea University and King Abdullah University have had their article “Therapeutic Potential of Microalgae-Derived Bioactive Metabolites Is Influenced by Different Large-Scale Culture Strategies” published in Marine Drugs. Microalgae have been identified as one of the most promising sources...Read More

EnhanceMicroaAlgae partners at the University of Manchester have developed a new mixotrophic cultivation strategy that produces enhanced biomass growth as well as significantly increased lipid and starch production based on a pulse feeding strategy. In addition, they have developed a...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 develop original applications of microalgae pigments for human health. Their latest work, published in collaboration with IFREMER...Read More

Our partners from CNRS and researchers from Ifremer, France have developed a solution which activated by light allows to eliminate bacteria responsible for acne. More information can be found here (This page is in French)Read More

The EnhanceMicroAlgae project will be hosting a final event on 25th October, discussing the project and the Promising future of microalgae in Europe. The event will include discussions on the food and beverage market, algae use in cosmetics, and much...Read More

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

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

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 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 University of Manchester team have complied a Microalgae Strain catalogue containing information on a large variety of strains. The catalogue is part of the deliverables from WP7, led by Swansea University, and includes a wealth of material on strain...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

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 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

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

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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

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