With a deadline of 11 March 2016 the first AQUAEXCEL2020 (AQUAculture infrastructures for EXCELlence in European fish research towards 2020) call for access is now open.

The AQUAEXCEL2020 project invites proposals from European research groups and unites major aquaculture experimental facilities with the capacity to undertake trials on a selection of aquaculture species and system types. These installations are available to the research community for transnational access with the support of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

The facilities cover the range of production systems including cage, pond, recirculation, flowthrough, hatchery and disease challenge; environments  including freshwater, marine, cold, temperate and warm water; scales (small, medium and industrial scale); fish species (salmonids, cold and warm water marine fish, freshwater fish and artemia); and fields of expertise (nutrition, physiology, health and welfare, genetics, engineering, monitoring and management technologies).

Researchers can propose the visits of up to two people to the chosen research infrastructure for periods of up to three months. Access to the research infrastructures and associated travel and subsistence expenses will be paid for under the project.

The research infrastructure project began in October 2015 and will look to conclude in September 2020. It is co-ordinated by the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), France, and currently involves 22 research partners from 12 countries. It aims to achieve sustainable growth in Europe’s aquaculture sector.

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