Bringing together international researchers, EcoHub farmers, industry leaders, and policy makers to advance sustainable aquaculture across Africa and Europe.
Theme: "Aquaculture Driving Blue Transformation". Exploring developmental research, oral and poster presentations, and satellite workshops on sustainable food systems in Tanzania and globally.
Key coordination gathering bringing together work package leaders to review final project deliverables, data integration across the 6 African EcoHubs, and long-term sustainability.
Bringing together leading international experts in seafood technology, fish quality, safety, and sustainable utilization of aquatic resources and processing by-products.
CIIMAR showcased INNOECOFOOD innovations on upcycling African catfish processing by-products into high-value protein biscuits and food ingredients for nutrition security.
Pivotal gathering hosted by CSIR Ghana to review mid-term progress across all 9 work packages, AI/IoT EcoHub deployment, insect protein rearing, and living lab activities.
Gathering national aquaculture leaders, researchers, and producers to share advances in eco-friendly fish feed, recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), and EU-Africa technology transfer.
Promoting sustainable aquaculture in East Africa, highlighting INNOECOFOOD solar cage aquaculture models, fish processing innovations, and youth employment in aquaculture.
Joint Horizon Europe cluster event bringing together sister research projects to discuss resilient agroecology, circular nutrient loops, and climate-smart food production.
First technical review workshop evaluating baseline surveys, initial EcoHub site selection across Kenya, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Egypt.
Community inception meeting in Siaya County, Kenya, gathering smallholder aquaculture farmers, women-led co-ops, and local leaders to introduce the EcoHub living lab.
Official project launch establishing the 3-year execution plan, work package leadership, and multi-actor partnership under Horizon Europe Grant #101136739.