Enhancing ethics and economics in aquaculture using solutions based on IoT and digital automation.

A collaborative debate focusing on methods and technologies for the governance of the aquaculture through a responsible approach to the research, innovation and use of digital technologies for automation.

Aquaculture is the world’s fastest growing food industry and it has the responsibility to face the growing global population feeding. Indeed, as the world's population continuing to expand rapidly, developing innovative and sustainable food sources is a key priority for Europe. This consideration identifies a key-issue in the marine sector with a direct and huge social impact.

What about overall economy, would the use of more expensive systems increase food prices and change the level of access to food? How to deal with the production of food for fishes? How to ensure digital security? Which processes could be used to decrease the harmful chemicals in the water, such nitrates, maybe reducing them to non-toxic levels so to be reused for other purposes? Does it make sense to match other kind of agro-food productions, such as the emerging aquaponic, listed among the 10 most promising and disruptive technologies?

This is a challenge and the planned cross-sectoral workshops will drive a path towards the exploitation of methodologies and policies helping the players and policy makers to remove barriers limiting the adoption of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) – a new approach that considers vital aligning the processes and outcomes of research and innovation with the needs and expectations of society, by leveraging on public engagement, gender equality, science education, open access and open science, ethics and governance.

Guidelines of mutual research between the marine and the Industry 4.0 sectors will be outlined.

Agenda

12:30 - 13:30 Arrival, registration and light lunch

13:30 – 13:40 Welcome and workshop’ themes introduction (Francesco Niglia)

13:40 – 16:00 Creation of a common ground about the state of the art of RRI in marine and industrial sectors

- The MARINA project and its results (Fernando Ferri)

- How the RRI Roadmap may be applied in the sector of Aquaculture? (Xenia Schneider)

- The sustainability of aquaculture in the Med area (Ferdinando Boero)

- New Methodologies & Technologies for Smart Aquaculture: the Case of Aquaponic Integrated Systems (Federica Stella Blasi)

- From preventing to recycling marine litter from the aquaculture sector (Fien De Raedemaeker)

- CETMAR as a specialised interface for the marine realm, COCKLES project as an example (Rosa Fernández Otero)

- TERRITORIA: the RRI experience of local and regional authorities (Christopher McInness)

- Questions & answers

16:00 – 16:15 Coffee break

16:15 – 17:30 The Collaborative debate (round table)

Sustainable technologies for aquaculture

Perspectives for cross-community engagement

Highlights: the potential connections

17:30 End of the workshop

Confirmed speakers:

Federica Stella Blasi CORE Lab - University of Salento (ISEPA Project)

Ferdinando Boero University of Naples Federico II (European Marine Board, CoCoNet Project)

Fien De Raedemaeker Flanders Marine Institute (Aqua-LIT Project)

Rosa Fernández Otero CETMAR - Centro Tecnológico del Mar. Fundación Cetmar (COCKLES Project)

Fernando Ferri CNR Institute for Research on Population and Social Policies (MARINA Project)

Chritopher McInness EURADA - European Association of Development Agencies – Industry 4.0 team (TERRITORIA Project)

Xenia Schneider XPRO Consulting Limited (MARINA Project)

The MARINA project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under GA No. 710566

https://www.marinaproject.eu/