Incomplete list of projects in which STMI has been/are an active participating partner

Please note that clients are nondisclosed

EEL-HATCH
Total budget 6 mil. Euro
https://www.eel-hatch.dk/

Description: The overall vision of the EEL-HATCH consortium was to establish breeding and hatchery technology for future commercial production of glass eels, leading to sustainable and profitable eel aquaculture. A prototype hatchery for the propagation of European eel was established at DTU Aqua site in Hirtshals, Denmark. At the facility, researchers, and industry work on developing the technology necessary for future commercial production of eel larvae. The project was supported financially by Innovation Fund Denmark

ITS-EEL

Total budget 3 mil. Euro

https://www.its-eel.dk/

Description: Improve technology and scale-up production of offspring for European eel aquaculture. ITS-EEL (2018-2021) a research and innovation project between the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Aqua) and European aquaculture industry partners. The project was supported financially by Innovation Fund Denmark and the ENV Fund.

Danish Care Foods

https://www.danishcarefoods.com/

Description: Danish Care Foods (DCF) was formed in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in 2018 due to a nutrition initiative starting in 2013. Working closely with Institut de Recherche pour le Development (IRD) with the University of Copenhagen (CU), Department of Fisheries, Post-harvest Technology & Quality Control (DFPTQ), Cambodia and UNICEF Cambodia to develop a ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) and a ready-to-use supplementary food (RUSF) to fight undernutrition in Cambodia with the use of native fish as the main- and sustainable ingredient. The positive outcome from the initiative for a locally produce RUTF/RUSF secured the establishment of DCF. Now DCF improve the availability of locally made nutritious food products for pregnant- and lactating women and 6-23 months old children. DCF strives to ensure every child's and women's right to better nutrition and health status.

In 2018 DCF was supported by a solid grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support the supply of fish for the children in need.

DCF became First Runners Up on the SUN Pich Competition in 2020

https://www.sbn.lucidleaps.com/sbn-demo/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/SBN-Case-Study-Innovation-DCF-Foods.pdf

DCF also worked with local fishers involved in two USAID-funded projects: NOURISH, led by Save the Children, and Rice Field Fisheries Enhancement, led by WorldFish, training fishers in Siem Reap and Pursat provinces on best practices for safely handling the fish prior to transport.