PARTICIPATING COUNTRIES
BULGARIA
Partners
Leader of WP1 and WP3
Hellenic Center for Marine Research (HCMR)
- Management and co-ordination of the project
- Development of management plan
- Arrangement of management and advisory scientific committees
- Marine invasive alien species’ selection
- Data collection on marine invasive alien species for mapping
Leader of WP2, WP4 and WP6
PRINSUS
- Dissemination and communication activities
- Establishment of dissemination, communication and exploitation plans
- Evaluation of communication and dissemination actions
- Recovery and formulation of valuable compounds-Toxicity and safety evaluation
- Technical studies on (a) Recovery and characterization of added value compounds and (b) formulation of safe and stable ingredients for food, feed and cosmetic product application
- Overall Sustainability Assessment of VALIAS pathways
- Economic evaluation of valorization pathways
Leader of WP5
Agriculture and Food Development Authority (TEAGASC)
- Development of final products of commercial interest
- Development and Evaluation of functional food products
- Development and Evaluation of cosmetic products
- Production and Evaluation of novel fish feed
University of Salento (UNILE)
- Inclusion of additional alien invasive species to be mapped
- Establishment of the rationale of selection
- Creation of a list of candidate species to be analyzed
- Literature data collection and extraction on selected species
NUEVO
- Evaluation of the nutritional value of novel products
- Determination of final product quality
- Evaluation of the performance of novel aqua feeds
European University Cyprus (EUC)
- Risk identification and safety demonstration – regulatory compliance of the developed VALIAS ingredients
- Rapid and inexpensive screening of safety of novel food and feed ingredients
- Evaluation of toxicity and safe intake doses through pre-clinical in vitro model studies
- Definition of European and local legal and non-legal limitations, barriers and standards for the developed ingredients and products
Bantry Marine Research Station (BMRS)
- Selection of species of interest
- Implementation of literature review on the species of interest
- Extraction of data from literature necessary for mapping
- Implementation of safety tests of VALIAS ingredients
- Collection of data for the inventory analysis and the implementation of environmental assessment
Physiopharma
- Development of cosmetic products, focusing on anti-aging creams
- Overview of skin-health benefits of bioactive substances
- Evaluation of sensorial and rheological properties of developed creams
- Conduction of market study of the developed antiaging formulations