The SIMTAP project, funded by the PRIMA program (Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area), started in June 2019, and is aimed at designing, developing and testing a water-recirculating closed-cycle multitrophic system for the production of marine fish and crops for fresh consumption or the extraction of active ingredients for nutraceuticals, functional foods or medicinal use.
The project aims at boosting the sustainability of marine aquaculture, further developing and challenging the aquaponics concept: the integrated multitrophic chain auto-produces fish feed ingredients (filter/feeders organisms) achieving also a fish waste bioremediation, thus reducing pressure on wild fish stocks and environment. Moreover, SIMTAP systems can exploit the effluents from greenhouse soilless cropping systems to enhance the production of filter/feeders organisms.
The project is the result of the joint work of several academic, public and private partners from the Mediterranean region: University of Pisa (project coordination), University of Bologna, University of Milan, INRAE - UMR SAS Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation, Lycée de la Mer et du Littoral, Malta Ministry for Agriculture, Fisheries, Food And Animal Rights, Turkish Mediterranean Fisheries Research Production and Training Institute, Korolev GmbH.
The keynotes and the presentations of the project partners will highlight the main challenges and opportunities for sustainable aquaculture and aquaponics, and will present the results of the ongoing project and the experiments which are being carried out in the pilot plants realized in Italy, France and Turkey.
Attendees are welcome to listen to the presentation and participate actively in the Q&A and discussion sessions. The participation in the Online Workshop is open and free for everybody (even if not registered to the EurAgEng Conference).