Stakeholder Platform

The overall objective of REALM is to develop an innovative, sustainable, and highly efficient strategy for microalgae biomass production and processing, applicable to all European countries. This will be achieved by using a waste product, the drain water from soilless agriculture, rich in nutrients required for microalgal growth, combined with a continuous microalgae production mode, applied for the first time at industrial scale: the turbidostat mode.

The main aim and objective of the Paraqua project are to organize and coordinate an innovative and dynamic Network, connecting academia, industries and water management authorities to advance and apply knowledge and expertise on zoosporic parasites (i.e. aquatic fungi and fungi-like microorganisms) and the relation with their hosts in natural ecosystems and industrial algal biotech production.