The BlueCC project aims to take underutilised sources of marine biomass, such as invasive marine species, bycatch and cleaner fish from the aquaculture industry to develop new eco-friendly marine ingredients and products in a market acceptance approach. The focus will be on sustainably exploiting chitin/chitosan and collagenproduced by invasive crabs, jellyfish, starfish and cleaner fish, respectively, and demonstrate prototype products containing these polymers and/or their hydrolysates.To succeed with product development of research-intense products such as chitin/chitosan and collagen, we will apply a strong emphasis on market needs and insights throughout the project. BlueCC will be carried out by an interdisciplinary team and is divided into four main work packages addressing: (i) market driven conceptdevelopment, (ii) sustainable chitin/chitosan and collagen demonstrators, (iii) characterization of the novel marine ingredients, including e.g. anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effects, and finally (iv) commercialization feasibility in an RRI framework.Altogether, BlueCC will in a sustainable and efficient manner exploit underutilized marine raw materials, from laboratory to prototype demonstration, to reach collagen- and chitin/chitosan-based bioactive demonstrators with potential commercial uses reaching the Technology Readiness Level 7.
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