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                    Photo: Helge Skoglund, Uni Research                     UNI RESEARCH
                                                                            NO-5008 Bergen, Norway
                                                                            E-mail: post@uni.no
                                                                            Tel: +47 55 58 50 00
                                                                            Website: www.uni.no






                     Uni Research in Bergen is a broadly based, multidisciplinary research institute with 400 highly-qualifi ed employees
                     from 34 nations. They carry out research and development on biotechnology, health, environment, climate, energy and
                     social sciences. Uni Research is from 2018 part of the research group NORCE.

                     Uni Research undertakes marine environmental   systems for part of the farmed-fi sh’s life. Nofi ma   research is conducted through a number of
                     monitoring and impact assessment with an   is hosting the SFI.    projects supported by both the aquaculture
                     experience that span more than four decades.                      companies and government agencies, in a joint
                     Their projects aim for sustainable development   To develop innovations and build capacity for   effort to promote sustainable aquaculture.
                     in both coastal and offshore areas.  the aquaculture industry, Uni Research and
                                                      the University of Bergen collaborate at the   Omega-3 rich algae for
                     One of the main objectives for the integrated   Centre for Sustainable Aquaculture Innovations.   the fi sh farming industry
                     environmental and aquaculture research is to   Here novel ways of using the environment to   Uni Research develops biotechnological
                     provide critical knowledge for supporting the   modulate biological processes are studied, for   mechanisms aiming at supporting the
                     environment-friendly growth of the aquaculture   instance how different types of wavelengths of   production of sustainable feeds for the
                     industry, the sustainable management of the   light can lead to the best possible production,   aquaculture industry. They screen and identify
                     environment and its resources, as well as to   robustness and welfare of farmed salmon.   omega-3 rich microalgae strains, and optimize
                     actively fi nd and explore sustainable use of new   Novel analytical tools and technologies that   production. In collaboration with the company
                     marine biomasses. Their research contributes   industry can use to monitor the health, welfare   CO2Bio and the University of Bergen,
                     to the development of a circular bio-economy   and growth of fi sh in various environments will   Uni Research has established the National
                     and to the blue-green revolution.   be created.                   Algae-Pilot Mongstad facility. Here CO2 from
                                                                                       the Technology Centre Mongstad capture plant
                     Closed fi sh farming facilities   Escaped farmed                   is used to grow omega-3 rich algae for the fi sh
                     Uni Research is in the forefront of research on   fi sh and sea lice  farming industry.
                     closed and semi-closed fi sh farming facilities.   Key challenges such as escaped farmed fi sh
                     Over the last years the institute has made   and sea lice are part of the core research   Value creation from
                     signifi cant contributions to the development of   in aquaculture biology. Based on results   by-products from the food
                     such systems, focusing on optimising growth   from long-term studies in rivers and fjords   industry: Discovery of
                     and securing good health for the fi sh. Results   in Western-Norway, the research group   new industrial enzymes
                     are very promising both regarding robustness   contributes to knowledge-based understanding   Biotechnologists at Uni Research explore
                     and welfare while constraining key challenges   of complex interactions between the aquatic   the industrial potential of marine organisms
                     such as losses, escape and lice.   environment and the aquaculture activities and   from extreme environments. DNA sequence
                                                      to propose mitigation approaches and actions.   information is used to identify and produce novel
                     Uni Research is a partner in the national   These include among other, giving advice on   enzymes for the bioprocessing of industrial
                     Centre for research-based innovation in close   when initiating spring delousing in farms in   waste, such as lignocellulosics and marine
                     containment systems – SFI-Ctrl AQUA,  which    order to optimize the effect for out migrating   by-products from fi sheries and aquaculture.
                     provides detailed knowledge on how fi sh   wild smolts, and on methods to effi ciently   This is a major contribution to the development
                     farmers will benefi t from implementing closed   remove escaped farmed fi sh from rivers. This   of a circular bio-economy in Norway.

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