EURASTiP Brokerage Event - Registrations

Second EURASTiP Brokerage Event Expanding Horizons 2020 “Maximising Business Opportunities Between South-east Asian and European Aquaculture Stakeholders”, will take place in Vietnam and Thailand from August 26th – September 5th.

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.

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AQUAEXCEL 2020 - Training course

Are you interested in bioinformatics concepts and analysis?

Apply for the FACE-TO-FACE TRAINING COURSE: INTRODUCTORY BIOINFORMATIC COURSE TO SEQUENCING DATA PROCESSING

Bioinformatics is a must-have skill required in every modern research lab. This course will explore the fundamentals of bioinformatics analysis. The participants will be provided with end-to-end hands-on training, along with an introduction to basic concepts, in using popular tools. Participants will gain an understanding of bioinformatics analysis in the context of aquaculture research. The key learning objectives are for participants to understand the utility of NGS for a range of aquaculture-related objectives and bioinformatics pipelines for NGS data, and to gain knowledge of specific pipelines for RADseq and RNAseq protocols.

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Student Spotlight Award

The award is open to all students that submit an abstract for the event. It does not matter if the abstract is oral-preferred or poster-preferred, but it must be submitted before June 1st! ⠀⠀

All students will automatically enter the competition for best abstracts, and will be judged by the EAS Board.

The three best Abstracts will receive a travel grant (300€), free registration and the chance to win the student SPOTLIGHT award.

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INNOVATION FORUM - Aquaculture Europe

Aquaculture is driven by innovation to meet one of the three main business goals, productivity, sustainability and profitability.

Intensification requires upscaling production systems and developing new solutions for producing more to supply a growing market with healthy products. This requires new ideas, technologies and entrepreneurs to put them into place.

EAS recognises the importance of innovation and as such wants to promote and support start-ups and emerging business models in the aquaculture sector. By matching ideas to potential investors and those that can push the development of these companies, we may help to facilitate growth in the sector, with better technology and new products.

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Corporate BENEFITS for new EAS membership category

EAS is now offering a package of benefits for companies in the aquaculture sector at a promotional price.

More and more companies are exhibiting at our annual Aquaculture Europe events and we are continually trying to make quality events in nice places. We very much hope to see you in Berlin in October and/or in Cork next year.  Many companies attending our events would like to be more involved in EAS and more active in our network. So we now have Corporate Membership especially for you!

AE2019 welcomes Women in Aquaculture event

A seminar looking at ways to ensure greater gender diversity at all levels of the aquaculture sector will take place on Wednesday, 9 October at our Aquaculture Europe (AE2019) conference.

Jointly organised by the European Aquaculture Society (EAS) and The Fish Site, the Women in Aquaculture seminar will offer first hand insights into how women can overcome perceived gender-related obstacles and build thriving careers right across the aquaculture sector.

“Many promising young researchers and many of the top aquaculture executives from Europe and beyond will be in Berlin for the annual EAS conference and this special session aims to help companies engage with proactive strategies for building diverse workplaces,” explains Alistair Lane, Executive Director of EAS.

The one-hour event will be co-chaired by Nofima’s Synnøve Helland, who is a board member of EATIP and leader of the Gender Panel of EURASTIP, and Rob Fletcher, senior editor at The Fish Site – which has been responsible for a number of women in aquaculture initiatives over the course of the last year.

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Blue Bioeconomy in Northern Germany

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has approved a project coordinated by Kiel University: "Bioeconomy at Marine Sites (BaMS)" with funding of up to 20 million Euro.

The focus of the BaMS project is on developing a new innovation area in northern Germany with 79 project partners from research, industry and public administration. New - and above all sustainable - concepts are being developed for a comprehensive circular economy, including fish, mussels and algae, among other things. The entire project will be funded by the BMBF.

The project leaders of the BMBF project "Bioeconomy at Marine Sites" are Professor Carsten Schulz from the Institute of Animal Breeding and Husbandry at the Faculty of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences, and Professor Rüdiger Schulz from the Botanical Institute and Botanical Garden at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. The project coordinator is Dr Stefan Meyer from the CAU and network coordinator of the Competence Network Aquaculture (Kompetenznetzwerk Aquakultur, KNAQ).

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The deadline has passed but submission is still open

Submission will remain open but the later you submit, the less chance you have of an oral presentation!

Aquaculture Europe 2019 encourages the submission of high quality oral and poster presentations. We strongly encourage authors to consider poster presentations because poster sessions will be an integral part of the programme. Papers submitted for "oral presentation preferred" may not be accepted as oral presentations due to the limited number of available time slots. All abstracts must be in English - the official language of the conference.

The selection of abstracts is based upon several criteria, but the most important one is quality. Our guidelines have therefore been updated to reflect this. Please take time to read them and ensure that you follow them. Abstracts that do not will not be assessed for inclusion.

Each oral presenter shall be entitled to no more than 15 minutes for a presentation, plus 5 minutes for questions. Authors of studies involving proprietary products or formulations should present this information in workshops or the trade show. Oral presentations should use PowerPoint. Overhead and slide projectors and video players will not be available.

  Posters will have a prominent place in Aquaculture Europe meetings:

• Presenters that send a PDF or Power Point version of their poster four weeks before the conference will have their poster reviewed within the appropriate oral session.
• Special poster viewing with authors present is provided during the happy hours.
• Besides this, posters will be easily accessible during the lunch breaks.
• In the programme book, special mention will be made in the oral session lists of where the relevant posters can be found.
• Prizes will be awarded during the wrap-up session for Best Poster and Best Student Poster.

All presenters are required to pay their own registration, accommodation and travel expenses. Aquaculture Europe cannot subsidize registration fees, travel or hotel costs.

No Abstract Book will be printed - a compilation will be provided online and a mobile phone app to registered delegates.

Click here to submit your abstract.

See the proposed list of sessions here.