Reinforcement of Sustainable Aquaculture – the Rosa Project

Abstract

ROSA is part of the European FP7 projects, and is realized at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Belgrade. Project partners are The Institute of Aquaculture Research - AKVAFORSK from Norway (now under new research group called NOFIMA - MARIN) and Research Institute for Fisheries, Aquaculture and Irrigation - HAKI from Hungary. The main concept of the project ROSA is reinforcement of the S&T capacities in Aquaculture in Serbia and Western Balkan through support to the improvement of carp breeding technology concomitant with reduction of pollution of fish pond environment, by upgrading both human and material resources for research in sustainable fish production. The overall objective of the three years project is to strengthen education programs in animal science with new knowledge in fish nutrition, fish breeding, management and molecular biological methods used in biological research. In the ROSA project accomplishment of tasks is carried out through five work packages: WP 1 - Project Management and Coordination; WP 2 - Human resources reinforcement; WP 3 - Reinforcement of material resources; WP 4 - Reinforcement of knowledge in aquaculture and WP 5 - Promotion and dissemination.