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24 February, 2025

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Transfer of results

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CETMAR hosts a meeting to analyse and plan the transfer of results of the Galician Marine Sciences Programme

The Centro Tecnológico del Mar-Fundación CETMAR has hosted a workshop to analyse and plan the transfer of the results obtained in various work packages of the Galician Marine Science Programme, particularly those regarding aquaculture.

The workshop aimed at developing strategies to manage, exploit and valorise the knowledge achieved in the work packages mostly linked to aquaculture and shellfish resources, and to their dependent coastal communities. The ultimate goal is to favour the impact of this knowledge on end-users in the short, medium and long term.

The event, organised by the Promotion and Technology Transfer area of CETMAR, was attended by researchers and staff from the knowledge transfer departments of the institutions involved in the Programme. There were representatives from the universities of Vigo, Santiago de Compostela and A Coruña, and the IIM-CSIC and the IEO-CSIC.

Through different working groups, participants discussed the factors determining the potential of results to be transferred and generate a positive impact. They identified stakeholders and factors in favour or against transfer, supporting the process with different visualisation tools and grouping the knowledge generated in a catalogue.

The whole-day conference is an action framed into the 11th work package (WP11) of the Galician Marine Science Programme, focused on ‘scientific culture, transfer and training as tools for social transformation for the sustainable development of Galicia in the marine environment’.

The results analysed are related to genomic tools for: sustainable management and improvement of aquaculture productivity (WP6); sustainable shellfish production (WP7); improved capacity for diagnosis and prevention of pathologies in aquaculture and sustainability of fisheries production (WP8); sustainable diversification of aquaculture systems and breeding (WP9) and transformative intervention, in the field of socio-economics, for the resilience of the Galicia’s coastal environment (WP10).

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Cooperation in the Caribbean

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CETMAR participates in a mission to Costa Rica in the framework of a programme to improve and expand the capacities of the fishing sector to use environmentally friendly fishing gear

An expert from the Centro Tecnológico del Mar-Fundación CETMAR is currently participating in a mission to Costa Rica as part of the ‘Adelante2’ programme, which aims to improve and expand the capacities of the Costa Rican fishing sector to use environmentally friendly fishing gear.

Financed by the European Union-Costa Rica, Latin America and the Caribbean Triangular Cooperation Fund, this programme is led by the National Learning Institute (INA) of Costa Rica, and with the participation of the Institute of the Sea of Peru (IMARPE). Now, it enters the final phase with training for the fishing communities of Palito and Montero de Illa Chira and Manzanillo de Limón, in the Caribbean.

Guadalupe Martín Pardo, the Head of the International Cooperation area of CETMAR, participates in the action, aiming at training participants in key issues such as selective fishing gear, traceability of fishery products, circular economy, responsible fishing and ghost fishing.

A four-day workshop will be conducted by experts from the National Learning Institute of Costa Rica. Some months ago they participated in training internships in Spain, assisted by CETMAR, and in Peru, with the help of IMARPE. Both internships were linked to the topics described.

The training of the thirty participants is being supervised by an expert from CETMAR in areas related to the traceability of fishery products, responsible fishing or circular economy, and by an expert from IMARPE.

The mission, that will run until 1st March, includes a meeting with the executive president of INA, the Minister of the Sea and officials from the European Union-Costa Rica-Latin America and the Caribbean Triangular Cooperation Fund. In the meeting, representatives of every institution involved (CETMAR, INA and IMARPE) will present the results of the project.