Welcome to the Course
This free course provides an overview of ecological intensification as it applies to aquaculture, explaining why it is crucial for the future of fish and shellfish production, and how the EU GAIN project has supported its implementation. Starting from the two main objectives of the GAIN approach to ecological intensification (improvement of production and competitiveness / sustainability and compliance with EU regulation), the course introduces the transdisciplinary activities carried out by the partners of the project and briefly present some results. It then guides participants to the more specific courses that GAIN H2020 makes available.
This is the first in a series of five free courses prepared under the EU Horizon 2020 project GAIN (Green Aquaculture Intensification). It introduces the project and the other courses. The courses are intended for people actively engaged with aquaculture production, seafood value chains, certification schemes and policy organisations, but will also be of interest to a wider professional and academic audience.
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This course received funding
from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
under grant agreement No 773330 (GAIN, Green Aquaculture
Intensification in Europe) and constitute the deliverables for Task 5.1 managed by the Institute of Aquaculture at the University of Stirling. The content of this course does not reflect
the official opinion of the European Union. Responsibility for the
information and views expressed therein lies entirely with the authors. Start date: 01/05/2018, End date: 31/10/2021.