| 9.30 |
Arrival & registration |
| 10.00 |
Opening of Blue Innovation Day |
| Welcome by Elena Inés Floristán Imízcoz, Vice-Rector for Strategy, Sustainable Development and Internationalisation at Catholic University of Valencia and Jose Maria Tormos Muñoz, Vice-Rector for Research at Catholic University of Valencia (Spain) |
| Regional Ministry of Innovation, Industry, Trade and Tourism: Ester Olivas, General Director of Entrepreneurship and Internationalization (Spain) |
| Bioval: cluster BIO in Valencian Community. Ángela Pérez, president of Bioval (Spain) |
| 10.30 |
Session 1. Key technologies in the MNPs discovery |
| Genome-informed strategies to discover unusual enzymes that modify fatty-acid residues from secondary metabolism. Pedro Leao, ERA Chair & Group Leader, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR) (Portugal) |
| Metabolomics, isolation and purification of bioactive microbial natural products. José Rubén Tormo, Associate Area Head – Chemistry, Fundación Medina (Spain) |
| Biofoundries and the IBISBA European infrastructure: harnessing the challenges of efficient biomanufacturing. Pablo Carbonell, Automated Biofoundries and Smart Biomanufacturing Group leader and Irene Otero, Computational Synthetic Biology Group Leader, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology (I2SysBio),CSIC (Spain) |
| 11.15 |
Posters presentation |
| Outcomes of innovative teaching approach: Academic Research Innovation course. Jerónimo Chirivella, Chair of EU-CONEXUS Joint Master Programme in Marine Biotechnology (JMPMB) Programme Board, Catholic University of Valencia (Spain) |
| 11.30 |
Coffee break and posters visit. Networking. |
| 12.00 |
Session 2. Challenges at MNPs development |
| Bottlenecks in microalgae biomass production. Manuel Tarraga, Freelance, Project Management and IT Consulting (Spain) |
| Role of EMBRC in marine biotech discoveries. Nicolas Pade, Executive Director, European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC-ERIC) (France) |
| Biosolutions for no food no feed industry. Iryna Biliaieva, Strategic Business Development Director, Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM BioSolutions) |
| 12.45 |
Proposed solutions |
| Claims substantiation and R&D marketing support in dermoCosmetics. David Gonzalez, Founder & Chief Executive Officer (CEO), DermaClaim - cosmetic testin laboratory (Spain) |
| Sustainable solutions based on micro-algae for the food and health of tomorrow. Olivier Cagnac, Head of Extraction & Purification, Fermentalg (France ) |
| Open innovation in bioremediation and extraction of bioactives from algae. Guillermo Del Barco, CFO, Researcher, Mediterranean Algae (Spain) |
| Deep tech innovations towards clean seas. Tatjana Paulauskienė, Professor, Chief Researcher, Inobiostar, spin-off company of Klaipeda University (Lithuania) |
| Shelf life of seafood products and how biotechnological developments could enhance it. Tibor Janči, Assistant Professor, PhD, member of Joint Master External Advisory Board, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Food Technology and Biotechnology (Croatia) |
| 13.30 |
Networking lunch |
| 15.00 |
Blue Bio-economy careers |
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Boosting blue careers in blue economy. Celia Murcia, CEO and co-founder, Blue-Jobs platform (Spain) |
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Innovation in Blue bio-economy at EU-CONEXUS Universities. EU-CONEXUS Joint Master Programme Board members (EU-CONEXUS) |
| 15.45 |
Closing ceremony |
| Future Challenges and Prospectives of Marine Biotechnology Growth: The Key Role of Universities. Danica Ramljak, Senior Science and Innovation Consultant, World Bank (Croatia) |
| Award for the best Blue Innovation poster |
| 16.15 |
The end |