Copernicus Marine for the Aquaculture Sector first

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The European Aquaculture Technology & Innovation Platform (EATIP) and Mercator Ocean International, organize in September 24 – 25 in Athens, Greece, an event entitled:

“Copernicus Marine Service Workshop & Training for the Aquaculture Sector”

 

 

The objectives are to :

– Allow the aquaculture community to share issues they are facing regarding the management of aquaculture farms.
– Show how the Copernicus Marine Service might contribute to tackle current and future challenges.

 

Interested in this event and these topics ?

Help us to organize this event by answering the following questionnaire. The analysis of answers to this questionnaire will help the organizers to define the agenda of the event and follow your expectations.

To understand the benefits & impacts brought by the Copernicus Marine Service in the “Marine Food” sector, find a selection of examples of marine applications developed by intermediate users in the following Use Case Book:

Mediterranean Sea – Marine Food
USE CASE BOOK

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You can also download the Use Case Book.

 

If you have any questions about this event, please send an email to: event@mercator-ocean.fr

 

AQUAEXCEL2020: Registrations Now Open for Free Infection Trials Course

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Apply Now for the Free AQUAEXCEL2020 Training Course: “Planning and Conducting Experimental Infection Trials in Fish”

 

Applications are now being accepted for the AQUAEXCEL2020 training course entitled “Planning and Conducting Experimental Infection Trials in Fish”. This is a free face-to-face training course provided by Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU) Aqua (Denmark) in collaboration with Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC) (Spain), Nemzeti Agrárkutatási és Innovációs Központ (NAIK) (Hungary) and University of Stirling (UoS) (United Kingdom). The course will take place at DTU Aqua, Lyngby, Denmark between 11-15 November 2019.

AQUAEXCEL2020 aims to bring together, integrate, and open up highly diverse key national and regional aquaculture Research Infrastructures in Europe to all European researchers, from both academia and industry, ensuring their optimal use and joint development. AQUAEXCEL2020 will organise nine pioneering technical training courses in total, focusing on different aspects of aquaculture experimentation. These courses present a valuable opportunity for researchers and technicians in this field to further their experience.

This course may be of interest to PhD students, researchers, fish farm health managers, and research employees such as those in the pharma industry with an interest in experimental studies of infectious diseases.

 

To apply, please send the following documents to aquaexcel@aquatt.ie, with the subject line: AQUAEXCEL2020/TrainingCourse_Infection_DTU

The application deadline is 22 July 2019

For more information, check the promotional leaflet and the link to the relevant part of the AQUAEXCEL2020 website. Please note that applicants should not make travel arrangements unless you have received official confirmation of selection as there is only a limited number of places available.  

EURASTiP second Brokerage Event

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The H2020 project EURASTiP is pleased to invite you to

the second EURASTiP Brokerage Event:

The Vietnam-Thailand Trade Mission that takes place from 26 August 2019 – 5 September 2019. 

This trade mission will take you on site visits to companies along the aquaculture value chain within the Mekong Delta (Vietnam) and Chachoengsao & Chanthaburi (Thailand), as well as a to two EURASTiP brokerage sessions: in Vietnam on August 30 in conjunction to Vietfish and in Thailand on September 2nd.

In addition, the event offers the opportunity to discuss and meet with an invited delegation of aquaculture stakeholders from Bangladesh.

 

For more details and tentative programme: see flyer below and www.eurastip.eu/brokerage

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All stakeholders within the European Aquaculture Industry are welcome to join. Funding for travel and subsistence costs will be available for a selection of participants (conditions apply).

Please first register here, then apply for funding by sending an email to eurastipbrokerage@UGent.be

 

Deadline for registration: 30 June 2019

For queries contact: Mieke Eggermont (Mieke.eggermont@UGent.be)

Apply Now for the Free AQUAEXCEL2020 Training Course: “Introductory Bioinformatic Course to Sequencing Data Processing”

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Applications are now being accepted for the AQUAEXCEL2020 training course entitled “Introductory Bioinformatic Course to Sequencing Data Processing”.  This is a free face-to-face training course provided by the Institute of Aquaculture, University of Stirling (Scotland, UK) in collaboration with INRA (France).  The course will take place at UoS, Stirling (Scotland) between 26-30 August 2019.

AQUAEXCEL2020 aims to bring together, integrate, and open up highly diverse key national and regional aquaculture Research Infrastructures in Europe to all European researchers, from both academia and industry, ensuring their optimal use and joint development.  AQUAEXCEL2020 will organise nine pioneering technical training courses in total, focusing on different aspects of aquaculture experimentation. These courses present a valuable opportunity for researchers and technicians in this field to further their experience.

This course is designed primarily for students and lab researchers who want to be introduced to bioinformatics concepts and analysis.  This course is not an advanced course for bioinformatists, but rather a starter course for researchers that want to have a better understanding of their data, gain more insights or to plan experiments better and maximise the analytics output.

Required competence level: basic knowledge of molecular biological methods.

 

To apply, please send the following documents to aquaexcel@aquatt.ie, with the subject line: AQUAEXCEL2020/TrainingCourse_Bioinformatics_UoS

 

The application deadline is 21 June 2019

 

For more information, I have attached the promotional leaflet and the link to the relevant part of the AQUAEXCEL2020 website here. Please note that applicants should not make travel arrangements unless you have received official confirmation of selection as there is only a limited number of places available.