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Day: September 24, 2025

As the global push for sustainable industrial practices accelerates, University College Cork (UCC), a proud partner in the IMPRESS project, successfully hosted an immersive educational event on March 19, 2026.
Comex and Trinity College Dublin (TCD) are proud to announce a significant milestone in their collaboration under the EU-funded IMPRESS project. By integrating Comex’s advanced NFC Smart Labeling with TCD’s innovative biobased packaging prototypes, the partners are delivering tangible solutions for a sustainable, circular blue bioeconomy.
On March 16, 2026, the IMPRESS project joined leading researchers and policymakers for a strategic online clustering workshop titled "Food from the Ocean and Freshwater Resources."
A new study from University College Cork presents fog-o-ponic duckweed cultivation as a compact and effective phytoremediation system, enabling efficient nitrogen and phosphorus removal without large water volumes and supporting circular economy approaches to wastewater treatment.

Supplying the bioeconomy takes ocean-smart infrastructure. Europe is now piloting offshore seaweed farms within wind parks, and in 2025 the first commercial-scale North Sea harvest landed, early proof that European seaweed biomass can scale without competing for land and with backing from climate-finance initiatives[1]. Meanwhile, CORDIS’ EU Research Results in Algae Innovation from 2024 shows […]

IMPRESS presented innovative solutions for transforming seafood side streams into high-value, sustainable products at EFFoST 2025.