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).
