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The Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH1) and the University of Alicante (UA1), thanks to the GVA-ThinkInAzul project coordinated by Jaume Pérez-Sánchez (IATS-CSIC1) and Carlos Valle (UA1), have launched the interactive comic “Explore the Fish Route: Marine Aquaculture in the Valencian Community”, an educational work

The University of Murcia (UMU) coordinates the European project 2B-BLUE (Boosting the Blue Biotechnology Community in the Mediterranean) co-financed by the Interreg Euro-MED program, an initiative aimed at strengthening blue biotechnology in the Mediterranean region. This project involves ten partners from six countries (Spain, France,

The XVII National Congress of Fisheries Engineering and the X International Congress of Fisheries Engineering – CONIPESCA 2024 , were held from September 24 to 27, 2024 in the city of Tumbes, Peru, with the participation of experts both in person and virtually. CONIPESCA is

Seven are CSIC research staff, five from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), two from the University of Valencia (UV), two from the Jaume I University of Castellón (UJI), two from the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) and one from the University of Alicante

The XII Coastal Geomorphology Conference (GeoLitT24) was held in Valencia from September 25 to 27. The organization was in charge of the Group of Geoenvironmental Cartography and Remote Sensing (CGAT) of the Department of Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry of the Universitat Politècnica de València

The proposal FishBIT Integromics, involving researchers from the Nutrigenomics Group of IATS (CSIC1) and the National Microelectronics Center of CSIC, has passed to the final phase of the EBTón organized by CSIC Converge. This is an initiative that seeks to promote entrepreneurship among CSIC staff

We are looking for a candidate to apply to a fully-funded four-year PhD contract to work on the recently funded research project from the Spanish Ministry of Science “Holistic phenotyping of evolutive/adaptive features in fish farming. The gilthead sea bream holobiont: from pangenome to metagenome

● IATS has participated with eight oral presentations and 2 e-posters in five sessions. ● Two researchers have moderated the Microbiome and Additives sessions. Download complete news.

The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) has launched 187 new contracts for technical, predoctoral and postdoctoral staff to attract, train and retain talent in artificial intelligence and advanced digital skills. Two of these contracts (predoctoral, postdoctoral) are destined for the Instituto de Acuicultura Torre de

This work is one of the papers presented at the Innovation Radar session of the second annual meeting of the ThinkInAzul Program of the Valencian Community, and can be found at this link. Researchers from the UPV4, CSIC1 and CSIC2 groups of the Program have

The Consell has authorized the modification of an agreement between the Generalitat, through the Conselleria de Educación, Universidades y Empleo, and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and several Valencian universities that will extend the implementation period of the Thinkinazul initiative, the joint strategy

This work, presented during the second annual meeting of the ThinkInAzul Program of the Valencian Community, is included as one of the results presented in its WP4, Health and Aquaculture: recurrent and emerging diseases, led by Ariadna Sitjà-Bobadilla (CSIC3) and Juan Antonio Raga (UV3). More

On May 13, 2024 we mourn the loss of José María San Feliu Lozano, colleague, pioneer and inspirer in Marine Aquaculture research. J.M. San Feliu took over the direction of the Grao de Castellón Laboratory in 1972, then belonging to the Institute of Fisheries Research

The second annual meeting was held from 11 to 13 June at the San Vicente de Raspeig Campus of Alicante University. It brought together over 150 scientists. As well as work sessions explaining and discussing progress made over the year and whether the tasks of

Fernando Naya defended his doctoral thesis on 4 June in the ICTA department at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. His thesis, «The Two Genomes of Gilthead Sea Bream (Sparus aurata): A Multi-Omics and Holobiont Approach» was co-supervised by Jaume Pérez-Sánchez (IP1 of the CSIC1 Group

CSIC publishes a catalogue of 100 of its technological developments with greater commercial potential. The President of the institution, Eloísa del Pino, presented the openly accessible catalogue which includes disruptive innovations from a range of different areas of knowledge and aims to contribute to further

The device for monitoring fish behavior has been one of the 20 transferable products presented to aquaculture industry and transfer agents during the Innovation Radar session of the second GVA-Thinkinazul annual congress. Further information at mispeces.com.

Nutrigroup leader Jaume Pérez Sánchez, representing the local committee, has officially presented at the XIX National Aquaculture Congress the next European Aquaculture Congress, Aquaculture Europe 2025, which will be held in Valencia, September 22-25, 2025. More information can be found at mispeces.com.

The Torre de la Sal Aquaculture Institute has organised a conference at the CSIC’s Casa de la Ciència in Valencia to present the research carried out as part of the ThinkInAzul project. As part of Aquaculture Day, which is celebrated on 30 November, the Torre

The Casa de la Ciència of the Centro Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in Valencia has announced a series of conferences entitled “The many faces of climate change” as part of its programme “What do we know about…? This series, which will take place every

Stanford University has published the 2023 edition of the “World’s Top 2% Scientist List”. This “ranking” classifies researchers according to their results over their entire research career and only over the last year. A total of 14 researchers from the Valencian Community’s Next Generation Programme

Ricardo Domingo Bretón, researcher at ThinkInAzul, has won the Student Spotlight Award  granted by the European Aquaculture Society (EAS) at the Aquaculture Europe 23 (AE23WIEN) held from September 18 to 21 in Vienna. The paper Gilthead sea bream microbiota shifts associated with thermal stress and

Last January 24, the Real Casino de Murcia became the venue for the national coordination meeting of the Complementary Plan for R+D+i in Marine Sciences, known as “ThinkInAzul”. This event, organized by the Directorate General for Research and the Seneca Foundation, brought together the scientific

On March 29, the first scientific-technical meeting in Cantabria of the Complementary Plan for R+D+i in Marine Sciences, known as ThinkInAzul, was held. The meeting took place at the headquarters of the Instituto de Hidráulica Ambiental de la Comunidad de Cantabria (IHCantabria) and brought together

The ThinkInAzul project and Aquaculture have been present in the workshops of the Science Fair of the Vega Baja held last April 21 and 22, 2023 in Orihuela, with the assistance of students from schools and institutes throughout the region and the general public. In

Promoted by the IATS, and with Professor Jaume Pérez as president of the organizing committee, the event will take place from September 22 to 25, 2025 in the city of Valencia. More information in the official announcement of the European Aquaculture Society (EAS) and in

The first annual meeting of the research and development programme in Marine Sciences, ThinkInAzul, in the Valencia Region took place on 18 and 19 April at the Catholic University of Valencia (link to press release from the CSIC Delegation).   Fuente: iats.csic.es

The Kickoff meeting of the ThinInAzul Project in Marine Sciences of the Valencian Community (GVA-ThinInAzul), coordinated by JAUME PÉREZ-SÁNCHEZ from IATS and CARLOS VALLE PÉREZ from the University of Alicante, was held on Monday 27 June at the Torre la Sal Aquaculture Institute (IATS, CSIC).

The presentation of the Thinkinazul Plan in the Valencian Community took place on Monday 27th June at the Torre de la Sal Aquaculture Institute. With approximately one hundred people in attendance, the event was attended by the Regional Secretary for Universities and Research, Carmen Beviá,

The Regional Ministry of Innovation and the Ministry of Science and Innovation will co-fund a multidisciplinary research project of excellence in Marine Sciences -ThinkInAzul- to mitigate the effects of climate change on the conservation of the marine environment and aquaculture production. The project will start

The Regional Ministry of Innovation, Universities, Science and Digital Society will develop a multidisciplinary research project of excellence in marine sciences, with the AQUAChange project, focused on marine conservation and aquaculture production, which has an investment of 10 million euros and is co-financed by the

The Minister for Science and Innovation, Diana Morant, chaired the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy Council on Monday, at which the first four Complementary Plans were signed with the Autonomous Regions under the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan, which, for the first time, will see