SEAT Global

Posted on July 09, 2010 by admin

The EU-China Science and Technology Week was organized as part of the European Union Pavilion at the World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China.  The event included participation from leading scientists, journalists and representatives of industry, academia and government from the European Union and China.

As part of the Science and Technology Week SEAT project coordinator David Little of Stirling University and SEAT project partner Liping Liu of Shanghai Ocean University were invited to take part in the event ‘Feeding cities and citizens with sustainable and safe food: EU and China join forces … Continue Reading

Posted on July 09, 2010 by admin

The University of Stirling Institute of Aquaculture (IoA) conference 2010 was aimed at providing an opportunity for academic and industry liaison and discussion on the latest research being carried out at the Institute.  The conference involved researchers from around the globe introducing their work and explaining how it may impact future sustainability within the aquaculture industry.  The conference included a series of oral lectures by students, as well as key-note speeches from Director Brian Austin and Mr Peter Hajipieris, Chief Technical, Sustainability and External Affairs Officer at Birds Eye Iglo.

A … Continue Reading

Posted on June 30, 2010 by admin

The Europe Annual Meeting of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC): Science and Technology for Environmental Protection was held in Seville, Spain, between the 23-27th of May, 2010. The meeting was attended by more than 2500 participants and speakers from governments, industry and academia working in the field of environmental chemistry, ecotoxicology, risk assessment and product life cycle assessment.

The SEAT project and research objectives of Work Package 7 (Contamination Risks) and Work Package 3 (Life Cycle Assessment) were introduced in two poster presentations. Members of the SETAC community appeared to be concerned … Continue Reading

Posted on June 30, 2010 by admin

To support a growing global population we radically need to change the way we are currently using our resources. We also need to decouple economic growth from environmental impacts through improvements in eco-efficiency. So read the challenge for the 3rd International Conference on Eco-Efficiency: “Guiding Eco-Innovation and Consumption”.

SEAT was there to present its views on how aquaculture can be developed into a sustainable net addition to the global food pool. Representing were Jeroen Guinee, Rene Kleijn and Patrik Henriksson from the Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML), Leiden, Netherlands, who is co-ordinating work package 3 of the SEAT project (Life Cycle … Continue Reading

Posted on June 15, 2010 by admin

The European Seafood Exposition is one of the world’s largest seafood fairs, attracting buyers and sellers from over 140 countries around the world and featuring the stands of over 1600 exhibitors.

The fair provides an excellent opportunity to meet with a large number of value chain stakeholders, making contacts for future research and supplementing current knowledge of seafood value chains. This year, the fair was attended by three members of the SEAT project who were able to meet with exporters, importers, buyers, consultancies, industry representatives, processing companies, NGOs and a number … Continue Reading

Posted on May 26, 2010 by admin

The Nordic network on agriculture and food ethics will be hosting a course for PhD students entitled ‘The ethics of fish – Aquaculture in a philosophical perspective’. The course will run from August 16th – 20th 2010 at the Hotel Mabre, Vilnius, Lithuania. The main themes for the event include:

• Aquaculture and Sustainability
• Aquaculture and Climate Change
• Biotechnology in fish production
• Organic Aquaculture
• Ethics and Science.
• The future of food culture

The course will include sessions with group work, discussions, case exercises and dissertation presentations.
Course lecturers: Matthias Kaiser; Mickey Gjerris; Ingrid Olesen; Anne Myhr; Arne Sveinson Haugen
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Posted on May 26, 2010 by admin

During a scoping trip to China in April 2010 SEAT project members helped promoting the EU-China Partnership 2010 to Chinese seafood exporters. The main objective of the EU-China Partnership is to develop and support business relations between Northern Europe and China. The event is hosted by North Denmark EU-Office in cooperation with China Fishery Technology Promotion Centre and other stakeholders. The aim is to welcome approximately 75 Chinese and 75 European companies to Aalborg, as well as several speakers and representatives from both Europe and China. Participants in the event will be Chinese companies and companies from Northern Europe (e.g. … Continue Reading

Posted on May 26, 2010 by admin

As a warm-up to the world’s largest seafood industry event European Seafood Exposition PhD Candidate Kaspar Nielsen from Danish Institute for International Studies and member of the SEAT project team had the opportunity to present the project aims to Enterprise Europe Network – The EU-commission’s official business support network. A presentation entitled “Sustainable Ethical Aquaculture Trade – Chinese & Vietnamese products for EU-markets” was given at Enterprise Europe Network’s Martime Sector Group meeting at the Scottish House in Brussels.

The presence at the meeting was used to present the project and discuss opportunities for cooperation between SEAT at the World’s largest … Continue Reading

Posted on May 21, 2010 by admin

MARIE CURIE FELLOWSHIP INFORMATION EVENT & CALLS

The UK Research Office is running a free event next week (Tuesday 18thMay) at Glasgow Caledonian University to promote and provide guidance on the European Commission’s FP7 Marie Curie individual fellowships and grant schemes. The session will also provide those wishing to submit an application with a deeper understanding of the proposal format and the key issues they are required to address in planning and writing their proposal. Register here.

But if you can’t make the event (given the short notice that is quite likely!) and you are … Continue Reading

Posted on May 16, 2010 by admin

The World Aquaculture Society’s triennial meeting is the largest international aquaculture conference. This year’s conference in San Diego, USA, had over 4000 attendees from 80+ countries.

A special session was held this year relating to Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and sustainability in Aquaculture, hosted by N. Pelletier, P. Tyedmers and J. Colt. The session covered talks on LCA methodology, LCA of salmon production, sustainable sourcing of farmed fish and tilapia farming. Patrik Henriksson, a SEAT partner from the University of Leiden, introduced the SEAT project and gave a presentation … Continue Reading