Aquaculture is the world fastest growing food production sector, providing over 50% of sea food, while capture fisheries remains static. However, there is increasing concern about its sustainable and profitable development. This challenge requires effective cooperation and communication between the academic and the private sector. The EASYTRAIN project tackles this challenge by developing innovative aquaculture systems based on the most modern techniques in the field of aquaponics using organic aquaculture feed formulas, which substitutes fishmeal by Spirulina and quinoa as filler. EASYTRAIN combines the expertise of two academic and four industrial partners from Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and Italy, with complementary expertise in the field of plant and fish farming, feed production, aquaculture engineering and micro algae biotechnology. The outcome of EASYTRAIN will be 6 researchers with experimental and transferable skills ready to cope with the future challenges of the prospect aquaculture sector.

"There are more than 70.000 species of medicinal plants on the surface of the world. Most of them grow in their habitat. Because of urbanization, air pollution, water pollution, and global warming, the natural habitat of those plants has been decreasing day by day. However, those plants are valuable in terms of marketing. The drug companies buy those plants in order to produce some medicinal products. This situation offers an opportunity for the young farmers in Europe. They can grow those plant species in cultivated areas and sell them to drug companies. Aquaponic farming is a combination of soilless plant growing and fish farming and is gaining significant popularity all over the globe. Aquaponics farming system is a significantly important way to grow food in the space limited, climatically vulnerable, and deteriorated soil conditions. The aquaponic system offers a significant potential to improve plant growth, food production, food sovereignty, and food security on a sustainable basis. While lack of knowledge and proper understanding about the right implementation of aquaponics techniques and strategies are major limiting factors for aquaponic farming. AA good understanding of aquaponic can be helpful to improve community-based food production in the urban areas, industrial-scale food production in the rural areas, and smaller level farming operations in the developing and underdeveloped countries. There were two pieces of training within the scope of YEAH; the first one is in the city of Novo Mesto in Slovenia; ""Agricultural Entrepreneurship Training"" was held on 20-25 October 2019. A total of 17 young people including six young farmers from Slovenia and Turkey, 5 young farmers from Greece participated in this training. During training Aquaponic systems in Slovenia were also visited.At the end of our 5-day training, our participants explored and learned;- The difference between entrepreneurship and agricultural entrepreneurship,- Various agricultural terminologies,- The opportunities and advantages offered by agriculture,- How to work collaboratively with young farmers from different countries,- How to market their agricultural products abroad using various online tools,- How various agricultural products are planted throughout the year without being dependent on climate change through the Aquaponic systems they have examined in Slovenia,The Soilless Farming Training through Aquaponics Systems Course 07.12.2020-11.12.2020 via Zoom PlatformThe training ""The Soilless Farming Training through Aquaponics Systems ” was intended to be implemented in Van city however because of Covid-19 we had to launch it online. Fortunately thanks to the online training we could reach 104 young people from Mozambique to Mexico. It can be said that from Turkey the wave of Aquaponics has inspired all youngsters who were keen to learn this.The aim of the training is starting from the general flow of aquaponics systems, comprehending the importance and the market value of organic products free from chemicals and pesticide residues, the techniques of producing agricultural products in every season through aquaponics systems without effects from climate conditions, exploring the market value of the product they harvest not only inside but also outside of the country. All training materials were uploaded to our project website (http://www.yeah-project.com/en/Training.aspx?id=3 ). Within the scope of YEAH 3 different intellectual outputs have been created. Each of our intellectual outputs is unique in the field of agriculture. The first IO of our project is the Design of An innovative Aquaponics Systems for the Climate Condition of Van City. This IO is a quite innovative way of aquaponics systems solutions for the climate of Van city as every geographic region has its own conditions. The second one is DiDaMeP (Digital Database of Medicinal Plants) is a real solution for Europe in the meaning of digital database for medicinal plants. In turkey there is no such database and there are only very few in the world. So, this intellectual output is very innovative and a must for Europe. The third one is the combination three-chapter is a book of Agricultural Entrepreneurship, Aquaponic System in Soilless and of Effective Fishery Techniques For Aquaponics Systems. This book discusses; permanent solution for entrepreneurship in terms of agriculture, some aquaponics systems’ architecture and structure according to the needs of the partner countries in detail, and fishery techniques for aquaponics systems. Young people and organizations from all over the world have benefitted from our project and its outcomes.As a result of online dissemination and multiplier event activities there were a lot of young people who explored aquaponic systems and new ways of agricultural entrepreneurship"

Current seafood traceability tools and services have the potential to take advantage of novel blockchain technologies to obtain a wide range of data making sustainable seafood practices more visible to consumers. Sea2See project will fill in existing seafood traceability gaps through development of an innovative end-to-end blockchain model and professional and consumer applications to increase trust and social acceptance of sustainably fished and farmed seafood. The project will provide technological solutions to answer the need of a valuable source of data collected throughout the whole seafood value chain, verified and covering inputs from diverse stakeholders. For that purpose, a specific focus will be put on active commitment of stakeholders and real empowerment of consumers through the implementation of societal and sectoral strategies for co-creation, communication and awareness raising.

Contributing to the CCRI project portfolio, CisWEFE-NEX will demonstrate the implementation of a circular systemic WEFE Nexus, an innovative, fully integrated, & sustainable approach applying the principles of circular economy for closing loops in the key value chains of food, water & nutrients in severely water stressed regions: 1. Water: - A net positive freshwater balance to the water cycle (JRC 2021) will be achieved through combining olive mill wastewater reuse (as a co-product from biophenols extraction) with saltwater desalination at scale without using fossil fuels for use as drinking & irrigation water. - Waste streams from desalination (brine & bitterns) will be repurposed in nature-based solar saltworks as table & Epsom salt, made possible because of zero chemical use in the desalination process. 2. Energy: - Cutting-edge renewable energy technologies will be developed & demonstrated to achieve a net-zero direct fossil GHG emissions process. - Agri-photovoltaics (crops under PV panels) and biogas from advanced (ultrasonic cavitation assisted) anaerobic digestion fed from olive mill & other biowastes. 3. Food: - Innovative nature-based techniques will be demonstrated to enable truly sustainable, healthy, and fresh food & seaweed (containing bioactive compounds for pharma use) production at scale. - Saltwater integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (free of growth hormones, antibiotics, synthetic fertilisers, & preservatives). - Regenerative agriculture (organic permaculture reusing precious water & nutrients) and extractive reuse of biophenols from olive mill waste as bioactive products of very high nutri-pharmaceutical value. 4. Ecosystems: - Monitoring of traditional & emerging (micro)pollutants using cutting-edge analytics will prevent harmful impacts on the environment & food grown from it with predictive alerts & remedies through a mobile controlled cavitation unit providing (waste)water treatment services (advanced oxidation processes, disinfection).