The growth of the shellfish sector in EU is nearly stagnant due to the increasing global competition and the saturation of the areas protected from swell where intensive farming is viable. OpenMode is launched by two companies to go beyond the resilient platforms tested in previous works, proposing floating connectable modules for intensive farming in open waters. Its main objective is to prove their capacity to bridge the sector gaps farming on four full-scale demonstrators in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and North Sea Basins. The fifth demonstrator aims to prove the capacity to transfer this affordable technology to other blue growth sectors.
The platform redesign towards portable and versatile modules will consider their interaction with the swell and the response of different connection systems. The integration of remote sensors to control water, weather and structural parameters will assure the surveillance, reduce operating costs and explain through big data analysis which factors affect the harvest growth rates.
Eight 140 m2 modules will be produced and floated in Spain, Denmark, Croatia, Montenegro and Malta, where local farmers will share them harvesting molluscs or macroalgae. They will learn through trainings how to use it to avoid predation, achieve more phytoplankton or scale-up compensation measures, sharing their user experience with the designers and other farmers. This will allow completing the market study and Life Cycle Assessment. Colloquiums and events will raise awareness of this sustainable farming and promote synergies with other EU programs. The project success will activate intense farming in high-potential unexploited areas, and become an efficient tool to combat eutrophication in North and Baltic sea. Sharing the modules during the project can grow into a cooperative business model for the farmers with fewer resources. Finally, the versatility and cost reduction reached will let it to be adapted for other blue growth sectors.
The OpenMode project it is presented in an article published in Ipac Acuicultura, one of the most relevant aquaculture magazine in Spain, about the activity of our partners RDC and PREFFOR in two ongoing european projects. Download the article (pdf) here!
A great boost to raise awareness of our project: The first issue of OpenMode bulletin, published a few weeks ago, is advertised to over 900 subscribers to the European Horizon H2020 project ReSHEALience. Link to read the ReSHEALience newsletter.
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Oceans supply food & energy & they regulate the climate. Healthy oceans are a prerequisite for our own health & our planet's health. #ProtectOurHome from the bottom up ! It's #WorldOceansDay. @EU_MARE will launch a project on ocean literacy #EU4Ocean, 2day https://bit.ly/3dUb2kY
Kick off meeting
First load-cycle fullscale test
First data transmission on the website
Pieces of first module in a 40’ container
First module floating
12×48 m raft assembled
First event for key stakeholders
First training on a demonstrator
First order confirmed
