H2020 program
TRANSNATIONAL R&D
MOBILIZING PROGRAMS
National R&D
Infrastructures
EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
Concluded

Highlights

improving bio-utilisation of marine algae as sustainable feed ingredients to increase efficiency and quality of aquaculture production
from zebrafish to meagre: use of macro- and microalgae as functional feeds
industrial innovation under the context of biotechnological valorization of marine resources and by-products
genetic diversity exploitation for innovative macro-algal biorefinery
nutritious, safe and sustainable seafood for consumers of tomorrow
fatty acid incorporation and modification in cyanobacterial natural products
emergent marine toxins in the north atlantic and mediterranean: new approaches to assess their occurrence and future scenarios in the framework of global environmental changes
deep-sea sponge grounds ecosystems of the north atlantic: an integrated approach towards their preservation and sustainable exploitation
mobilizing scientific and technological knowledge in response to the challenges of the agri-food market
promote concerted and sustainable management of eel in sudoe area
new opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in atlantic area
transboundary marine biotechnology laboratory
pollutants of emerging concern in watersheds from galicia-northern portugal: new tools to risk management
cyanotoxins in irrigation waters: surveillance, risk assessment, and innovative remediation proposals
integrated on-farm aquaponics systems for co-production of fish, halophyte vegetables, bioactive compounds, and bioenergy
diversity and dynamics of atlantic bee resources in relation to climate and pesticide load: data for pollination management and sustainable agriculture

H2020 program
FutureMARES - Climate Change and Future Marine Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity
PI: Francisco Arenas
PONDERFUL - POND Ecosystems for Resilient FUture Landscapes in a changing climate
PI: José Teixeira
MAELSTROM - New solutions for the recovery of marine plastics and litter
PI: Isabel Sousa Pinto
BlueBio4Future - Blue Biotechnology and Bioengineering for the Current and Future Development of a Blue Bioeconomy in Portugal
PI: Vitor Vasconcelos
MIDFun - Metal impacts on deep-sea microbial communities and function
PI: Miguel Semedo
AQUACOMBINE - Integrated on-farm Aquaponics systems for co-production of fish, halophyte vegetables, bioactive compounds, and bioenergy
PI: Benjamin Costas Refojos
GENIALG - GENetic diversity exploitation for Innovative macro-ALGal biorefinery
PI: Isabel Sousa Pinto
EMERTOX - Emergent Marine Toxins in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean: New Approaches to Assess their Occurrence and Future Scenarios in the Framework of Global Environmental Changes
PI: Vitor Vasconcelos
FattyCyanos - Fatty acid incorporation and modification in cyanobacterial natural products
PI: Pedro Leão
IGNITE - Comparative genomics of non-model invertebrates
PI: Agostinho Antunes
SEAFOODTOMORROW - Nutritious, safe and sustainable seafood for consumers of tomorrow
PI: Maria Leonor Nunes
TOXICROP - Cyanotoxins in Irrigation Waters: Surveillance, Risk Assessment, and Innovative Remediation proposals
PI: Alexandre Campos
ASSEMBLE plus - Association of European Marine Biological Laboratories Expanded
PI: Vitor Vasconcelos
TRANSNATIONAL R&D
RESPONSE - Toward a risk-based assessment of microplastic pollution in marine ecosystems
PI: Lúcia Guilhermino
SølKelp - North-South Seaweed Cultivation Partnership
PI: Isabel Sousa Pinto
CetAMBICion - Coordinated Cetacean Assessment, Monitoring and Management Strategy in the Bay of Biscay and Iberian Coast sub-region
PI: Isabel Sousa Pinto, Mafalda Correia
SIDESTREAM - Secondary bio-production of low trophic organisms utilizing side streams from the Blue and Green sectors to produce novel feed ingredients
PI: Luísa Valente
ADAPTCHANGE - Technical Cooperation for Studying Adaptation to Environmental Change
PI: Rui Faria
MODELRISK - Ecosystem models to support Environmental Risk Assessment of marine ecosystems under HNS spills
PI: Irene Martins
BlueBioLab - Transboundary Marine Biotechnology Laboratory
PI: Vitor Vasconcelos
ACCESS2SEA - New opportunities for more competitive and sustainable blue growth in Atlantic Area
PI: Rodrigo Ozorio
NANOCULTURE - Risk assessment and mitigation of the presence of engineered nanomaterials in Atlantic aquaculture
PI: Alexandre Campos
NOR-WATER - Pollutants of emerging concern in watersheds from Galicia-Northern Portugal: new tools to risk management
PI: Miguel Santos , Teresa Neuparth
SUDOANG - PROMOTE CONCERTED AND SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF EEL IN SUDOE AREA
PI: Carlos Antunes
SHERPA DO MAR - Euroregional platform to promote competitiveness in the maritime and maritime field through the promotion of technology-based companies
PI: Susana Moreira
MININGIMPACT2 - Environmental Impact and risks of deep-sea mining
PI: Teresa Amaro
NetTag - Tagging fishing gears and enhancing on board best-practices to promote waste free fisheries
PI: Marisa Almeida, Sandra Ramos
UAV4SEA - Technology development for drone-based coastal observations
PI: Débora Borges
MOBILIZING PROGRAMS
MobFood - MOBILIZING SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE IN RESPONSE TO THE CHALLENGES OF THE AGRI-FOOD MARKET
PI: Luísa Valente
ValorMar - Integral valuation of marine resources: potential, technological innovation and new applications
PI: Vitor Vasconcelos
National R&D
CRAGIAMP - Search for Antimicrobial Peptides in Crassostrea gigas oysters and Paracentrotus lividus sea urchin. Diminution of mortality rate in oyster culture.
PI: Sergio Fernández Boo
DEEPbaseline - Co-creating a knowledge baseline on the diversity and distribution of sponge and coral vulnerable marine ecosystems of the Portuguese continental shelf
PI: Joana Xavier
OMARE - Observatório Marinho Biodiversidade
PI: Francisco Arenas
HIPERSea - Collection and Life Support in a Hyperbaric system for Deep-Sea Organisms
PI: João Coimbra
BEESNESS - Diversity and dynamics of Atlantic bee resources in relation to climate and pesticide load: data for pollination management and sustainable agriculture
PI: Laura Guimarães
MAGAL - Magal Constellation - Setting the cornerstone of a future ocean and climate change monitoring constellation, based on radar altimeter data combined with gravity and ocean temperature and salinity measurements
PI: Clara Lázaro
ATLANTIDA - Platform for the monitoring of the North Atlantic ocean and tools for the sustainable exploitation of the marine resources
PI: Vitor Vasconcelos
LEGATEE - Parental immune priming and in ovo delivery of immunostimulants applied to aquaculture of fish larvae
PI: Ana Rocha
Mites associated with Red Palm Weevil (RPW; Rhynchophorus ferrugineus O.) in Portugal and recombinant anti-RPW endophytic bacteria
PI: Camilo Pardo, Maria João Santos
PROPELLER - Investigation of a new class of beta-propeller enzymes
PI: Pedro Leão
CONNECT2OCEANS - Connecting Atlantic and Arctic Oceans to Decipher Climate Change Impact on Plankton Microbiome Functions
PI: Catarina Magalhães
IMMUNAA - Methionine and tryptophan as nutraceutical strategies to improve mucosal immunity and vaccine efficiency in fish
PI: Benjamin Costas Refojos
EdgeOmics - Freshwater Bilvalves at the edge: Adaptation genomics under climate-change scenarios
PI: Elsa Froufe
ConTribuT - Conversion of dietary tributyrin in rainbow trout
PI: Leonardo Magnoni
POSEIDON - Damage Prediction and Design of Scour Protections in Complex Foundations for Marine Renewable Energy
PI: Tiago Ferradosa
Ocean3R - Reduce pressures, restore and regenerate the NW-Portuguese ocean and waters
PI: Ana Paula Mucha
MIRRI PT Polo Norte - Northern node of the Portuguese Microbial Resource Research Infrastructure
PI: Vitor Vasconcelos
PT-OPENSREEN - National Infrastructure for Chemical Biology and Genetics
PI: Ralph Urbatzka, Vitor Vasconcelos
AdaptAlentejo - Predicting ecosystem-level responses to climate change
PI: Francisco Arenas
ALGAVALOR - MicroALGAE: integrated production and valuation of biomass and its various applications
PI: Vitor Vasconcelos
AntiBacFilm - Novel marine biomolecule with antibiofilm activity
PI: Mariana Reis
CAVIAR - Market valorisation of sea urchin gonads through dietary modulation
PI: Luísa Valente
EXTRATOTECA - Microalgae extracts with high added value
PI: Vitor Vasconcelos
FEEDMI - Improvements in disease resistance, stress and environmental sustainability in aquaculture systems through nutritional tools and modulation of microbial communities
PI: Benjamin Costas Refojos
GENiuSAMPLER - Autonomous biosampler to capture in situ aquatic microbiomes
PI: Catarina Magalhães
PROTALGAE - Method for obtaining proteins or a rich-protein extract from algae extracts and uses therefore
PI: Luísa Valente
PROZYME - Novos probióticos isolados do microbiota do intestino de peixes para melhorar a utilização de matérias-primas vegetais, saúde intestinal e resistência a doenças em peixes carnívoros
PI: Cláudia Reis Serra
Sea Forest - Sea Forest Portugal
PI: Isabel Sousa Pinto
SITE - Integrated System of Wastewater Treatment with Macroalgae
PI: Isabel Azevedo
Tools4Breed - Challenge tests and genetic markers for Perkinsus as a tool for Ruditapes decussatus
PI: Sergio Fernández Boo
TRANSobesogen - Trans-phyletic obesogenic responses: from epigenetic modules to transgenerational environmental impacts
PI: Miguel Santos
UVNatP - Novel UV protective compounds from natural sources as active ingredients for sun care products
PI: Pedro Leão
XANTIFOUL - Oxygenated xanthone derivatives as antifouling agents
PI: Marta Correia da Silva
Causalities between diversity, ecosystem functions and services in marine ecosystems
PI: Marina Dolbeth
A&BM - The Sea and the Shore, Architecture and Marine Biology: The Impact of Sea Life on the Built Environment
PI: Elsa Froufe
ACTINODEEPSEA - Bioprospecting actinobacteria from Portuguese deep-sea waters for the production of novel secondary metabolites with pharmaceutical and biotechnological applications
PI: Maria de Fátima Carvalho
BIOREM - Bioremediation of hydrocarbon pollutants by autochthonous microorganisms in aquatic environment
PI: Ana Paula Mucha
BUSHRISK - Tracking the bushmeat: a molecular framework for tracing the African bushmeat trade and risks of emerging diseases
PI: Philippe Gaubert
CanAdapt - Understanding Darwinian cancer evolution at the single-cell level
PI: Miguel Fonseca
CIGUA - The rise of toxic tropical and subtropical marine dinoflagellates Gambierdiscus spp: distribution, ciguatoxins trophic transfer and risk of ciguatera fish poisoning
PI: Alexandre Campos
ConBiOmics - The missing approach for the Conservation of freshwater Bivalves
PI: Elsa Froufe
CY-SENSORS - Biosensor and biomimetic recognition element based devices for detection and separation of cyanobacteria metabolites with ecotoxicological and therapeutical applications
PI: Isabel Cunha
CYANCAN - Uncovering the cyanobacterial chemical diversity: the search for novel anticancer compounds
PI: Mariana Reis
CyanoVaccine - Cyanobacterial outer membrane vesicles as novel platforms for Vaccine technology
PI: Cláudia Reis Serra
E-IMUNO - Applying elasmobranch immunogenetics to fisheries management and the study of vertebrate adaptive immunity
PI: Filipe Castro
EsCo Ensembles - Estuarine and coastal numerical modeling ensembles for anthropogenic, extreme events and climate change scenarios
PI: Fernando Veloso Gomes
EvoDis - The Metazoan Endocrine System in the Anthropocene Epoch: from EVOlution to DISruption
PI: Filipe Castro
FunG-Eye - A functional approach to unravel the interaction between fungicide pollution and fungi-mediated ecosystem processes
PI: Sara Antunes
GLOBALED - Impacts of global change on environmentally realistic mixtures of endocrine disruptor compounds on the structure and functioning of coastal ecosystems. Implications for a sustainable environment
PI: Patrícia Cardoso
HALVERSITY - Genetic and chemical diversity of a novel halogenase class
PI: Pedro Leão
INFLAMMAA - Unraveling neuro-endocrine/immune modulatory roles of tryptophan during inflammation
PI: Benjamin Costas Refojos
LIFELINE - Understanding temporal changes in aquatic biodiversity and their consequences for ecosystem functioning and services
PI: Marina Dolbeth
LinguaTox - Bioelectronic Tongue System for the Paralytic Toxins detection in shellfis
PI: Carlos Vale
MicroPlasTox - Microplastics in the marine environment: estimation and assessment of their ecotoxicological effects
PI: Ruth Pereira
MOREBIVALVES - Molecular strategies to be applied in the depuration of commercial bivalves for elimination of toxic compounds
PI: Alexandre Campos
MP-BITOX - Microplastics in bivalves: identification of sensitive species in Portugal and assessment of microplastic-toxin aggregates toxicity
PI: Carlos Vale
NanoLegaTox - When old meets new: A novelty study on the human uptake, genotoxicity and immunotoxicity of nanoparticles and legacy contaminants mixtures
PI: Miguel Santos
NASCEM - Novel eco-friendly Antifouling Strategies based on Cyanobacterial bioactivE Metabolites
PI: Joana Reis de Almeida
NITROLIMIT - Life at the Edge: Define the Boundaries of the Nitrogen Cycle in the Extreme Antarctic Environments
PI: Catarina Magalhães
PANDORAA - Unravelling the functional importance of amino acids in the fish neuroendocrine-immune network
PI: Benjamin Costas Refojos
ReDEFine - A multi-scale and multi-tiered toolbox for assessing ecosystem quality of freshwater reservoirs: bridging the gaps of the water framework directive approach
PI: Sara Antunes
RemediGrass - Seagrass beds as green and blue infrastructures for ecosystem restoration
PI: Marina Dolbeth
SeeingShore - Understanting and predicting the impact of climate change on coastal habitats
PI: Francisco Arenas
SeXomics - Sex and the environment: Genomic decoding and the perpetuation of animal life in a changing world
PI: Agostinho Antunes
SPO3 - Development of innovative sustainable protein and omega-3 rich feedstuffs for aquafeeds, from local agro-industrial by-products
PI: Helena Peres
SWUAV - Mapping the intertidal zone and assessing seaweed biomass using UAV images
PI: José Alberto Gonçalves
SYMBIOMICS - Omics of marine symbioses: Metabarcoding and metagenomics characterizatio of host-microbe adaptation and novel biosysthetic gene clusters
PI: Anoop Alex
UNNOWN - UNdiscovered Nitrogen micrOrganisms for Wastewater iNoculation: finding efficient microbial seed sludges for wastewater nitrogen removal
PI: Catarina Teixeira
Val-WRACK - Wrack as a high value resource in a global warming scenario. Is it worthy to invest on it?
PI: Marcos Rubal García
Infrastructures
ASSEMBLE plus - Association of European Marine Biological Laboratories Expanded
PI: Vitor Vasconcelos
EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
Ponds with Life - Charcos com Vida
PI: José Teixeira
OceanClass - Do Oceano para a sala de aula
PI: Laura Guimarães
CETUS - Cetacean Monitoring Project in Macaronesia
PI: Isabel Sousa Pinto

Concluded Projects