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🗞️Article: On the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, our Sustainability Engineer Patricio Cano Santana explores how the circular bioeconomy can go beyond reducing waste by transforming unavoidable fisheries side streams into valuable resources.🐟♻️

✅Through the EU-funded VALORISH project, innovative cascade valorisation pathways are helping unlock the potential of fish-processing by-products while considering their environmental, economic and social sustainability.

Read the full article by clicking on the link below👇 and discover why reducing waste is only part of the challenge.

Beyond waste reduction: Creating value from fish processing side-streams - BLUE SYNERGY On 29 September, we mark the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, an initiative established by the United Nations to highlight the need to reduce food loss and waste across the entire food system. The focus in 2026 is on the “Transformative Potential of Reducing Food Loss and Was...

📄Good News: Blue Synergy SL has reached a new milestone in the VALORISH Project!

Blue Synergy has completed and delivered D6.2 – Report of the initial advances of the ( ), a key milestone within WP6 – Process Assessment and Feasibility, for which we are the lead beneficiary of the deliverable.

✅Our work, led by Engineer, Patricio Iván Cano Santana, has established the methodological and Social Life Cycle Inventory foundations required to assess the social sustainability of the technologies being developed within VALORISH. The framework defines the goal and scope, functional unit, system boundaries, social categories and data collection strategy, while maintaining consistency with the environmental LCA and techno-economic assessment developed within the project.

✅The assessment considers the different stages of the VALORISH cascade valorization approach, transforming fisheries and aquaculture processing side-streams into higher-value products such as fish oil, fish protein hydrolysate, fermentation-derived bioproducts, collagen and hydroxyapatite.

💡From an S-LCA perspective, Blue Synergy has structured the assessment around the main stakeholder groups involved across the value chain, including workers, local communities, consumers, value-chain actors and society, providing the basis for identifying potential social hotspots, risks and opportunities.

The first quantitative assessments have also been initiated for the conventional baseline scenario and fish protein hydrolysate production, representing the first practical implementation of the developed framework. As VALORISH progresses, the assessment will be extended to the remaining technological pathways and refined with additional primary and operational data.

🔵At , we are proud to contribute to the development of a more comprehensive sustainability perspective for solutions based on the valorization of fisheries and residues.

🔗This deliverable will soon be available on the project website but, in the meantime, discover more about here: https://www.valorish.eu/

🌊 VALORISH is heading to !

Next week, in Ljubljana, Slovenia, the VALORISH Project and the will participate in . This coordinated communication, dissemination and clustering effort will showcase the work of Circularis, allow Valorish to build connections with key actors and EU initiatives, and bring its progress closer to the European aquaculture community.

📍Meet the CIRCULARIS BioCluster
At any time on September 30th, come and meet the members of at Booth 176, the SUBMARINER Network for Blue Growth EEIG stand. We will be there to introduce the cluster, its projects and their work on circular solutions for marine and terrestrial biomass.

🎤RootLinks: Blue Innovation Bites | 30 September, 10:30–12:00 | Gallery 2
Thanks to an invitation from Submariner, coordinator of FOODIMAR, ’s Julio Morales will pitch on behalf of Valorish at the free side event bringing together primary producers, researchers and technology developers to explore practical circular and bio-based solutions for aquaculture.
🔗Discover the event and registration details at: https://blueactionmatch.hivebrite.com/events/218855

♻️EU Circular Economy Project Pitch Session | 30 September | 15:00–17:20 | Gallery 1
VALORISH Co-cordinator, Akanksha Mishra, will present the project and its most recent updates during this session, which is part of the AE2026 Innovation Forum session on Circular Economy in EU Aquaculture.

📣So, are you Attending Aquaculture Europe 2026?
Come to Booth 176, join the sessions and meet us in Ljubljana! Together, these activities are an opportunity to strengthen collaboration, exchange knowledge and increase the reach of the innovative solutions being developed across Valorish and the Circularis BioCluster ( , , , and ).

📣Celebrating the successful conclusion of the BIOSYSMO Project!

➡️Over the past four years, the consortium developed and validated innovative, nature-based systems that combine plants, bacteria, and fungi to tackle complex mixtures of recalcitrant pollutants across Europe’s soils, sediments, and water bodies.

➡️ Blue Synergy SL steered the multidimensional sustainability assessment. Through comprehensive Life Cycle Assessment ( ), Life Cycle Costing ( )/ , and Social Impact Analysis ( , and ), we ensured that these cutting-edge biotechnologies are environmentally restorative, economically viable, and embraced by local communities.

👏We extend our sincere gratitude to our project coordinator, IDENER, and to all consortium partners—ICCRAM University of Burgos Jozef Stefan Institute, Leitat Technological Center, UBFC - Université Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, CIIMAR, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, CNRS, AXIA Innovation GmbH, TAUW, Imperial College London and EXELISIS IKE—for four years of exceptional interdisciplinary teamwork toward a cleaner Europe!

🔵Read our full project recap and team insights on our website: https://bluesynergy.eu/paving-the-way-for-greener-cleaner-ecosystems-the-conclusion-of-the-horizon-europe-biosysmo-project/

Paving The Way For Greener, Cleaner Ecosystems: The Conclusion Of The Horizon Europe BIOSYSMO Project - BLUE SYNERGY The Horizon Europe BIOSYSMO project has concluded, showcasing synergistic bioremediation solutions for complex pollution across Europe. Leading WP6, Blue Synergy evaluated the environmental, economic, and social impacts to ensure these biotechnologies are sustainable and community-ready. Explore the...

🎉Celebrating the successful conclusion of the !
After more than three years of collaboration, innovation and research, NANOMAT has officially reached its conclusion.

✅Throughout the project, contributed to advancing more sustainable hashtag , leading activities related to Life Cycle Assessment ( ), Life Cycle Costing ( ), circularity and , helping integrate considerations into the development of emerging nanoelectronic technologies.

➡️The project has also provided valuable insights into the environmental impacts of nanoelectronics and contributed to addressing important challenges such as data availability for highly specialised materials and manufacturing processes.

👏 We would like to congratulate and thank the entire NANOMAT consortium for the excellent collaboration, commitment and achievements throughout this journey. Thales, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Slovak Academy of Sciences, RF Microtech, Imperial College London, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), Uppsala University, National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies - IMT Bucharest, Circuits Integrated, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, NANOTEST, Technische Universität Chemnitz

🔗 Read more about NANOMAT and Blue Synergy’s contribution: https://bluesynergy.eu/pioneering-sustainable-nanoelectronics-blue-synergy-celebrates-the-successful-conclusion-of-the-nanomat-project/

Pioneering Sustainable Nanoelectronics: Blue Synergy Celebrates the Successful Conclusion of the NANOMAT Project - BLUE SYNERGY The Horizon Europe-funded NANOMAT project has successfully concluded, marking a transformative milestone in the evolution of European technology by establishing the entirely new domain of flexible power RF nanoelectronics. Blue Synergy proudly led the key tasks dedicated to environmental sustainabil...

🔬 We are proud to share a new publication by our Sustainability Engineer, Patricio Iván Cano Santana, developed as part of Blue Synergy’s work in the NANOMAT project!

Published in Cleaner Environmental Systems, the study addresses an important challenge in the Life Cycle Assessment of nanoelectronics: the lack of representative inventory data for specialised materials and chemicals.

The work provides transparent and reusable datasets, contributing to more robust environmental assessments and supporting the development of more sustainable nanoelectronic technologies.

👏 Congratulations to Patricio and all collaborators involved in this great result!

📄 Read the publication: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666789426000887

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At Blue Synergy we know that a breakthrough in the lab means very little if it never reaches society👥

Without community trust and social acceptance:
❌ Green and digital transitions face friction
❌ Policy alignment lags behind
❌ Market uptake and long-term exploitation stall

How can EU consortia build real trust and measurable engagement?

📲Swipe through the slides for our 3-stage framework (Plan, Implement, Evaluate).

Let's talk, drop your thoughts on this below!👇

📢 We are thrilled to share that our Sustainability Engineer, Patricio Cano Santana, and several co-authors have released a new publication on the integrated sustainability assessment of brownfield regeneration, combining LCA, LCC, NPV, S-LCA and SROI.

💡Within the BIOSYSMO Project, this work explores the restoration of the Vieux-Charmont's brownfield and the potential of phyto-management and circular soil-management strategies.

👏This is a great collaborative effort made possible with the contribution from our colleagues at Université Marie et Louis Pasteur, Michel Chalot and Humberto Castillo-Gonzalez, and from our General & Operations director, German Cavero Lopez. Congratulations to all co-authors for their valuable work and support.

📄Discover the publication here: https://www.mdpi.com/3975642

Integrated Sustainability Assessment of Brownfield Regeneration: The Vieux-Charmont Park Case (France) Brownfield redevelopment increasingly requires sustainability-oriented frameworks integrating Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Life Cycle Costing (LCC), Net Present Value (NPV), Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA), and Social Return on Investment (SROI) to evaluate conventional remediation benchmarks a...

🗞️POWERSAT met in Sweden for its latest General Assembly

✅ The consortium recently assembled in beautiful Uppsala for a progress meeting. According to the updates and the feedback from reviewers, the project is on the right track to successfully develop its innovative technologies.

✅ As the project approaches its final year, sustainability becomes especially relevant. Our Engineer, Patricio Ivan Cano Santana, presented the advances on Life Cycle Assessment ( ), Life Cycle Costing ( ) and the opportunities for POWERSAT.

We congratulate all partners for their hard work, and we hope that this last stretch is as successful as the previous two years. Thales, FADO.io, University College Cork, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies - IMT Bucharest, Uppsala University, Tyndall National Institute👏

Discover more about POWERSAT here➡️ https://project-powersat.com/
Discover more about Blue Synergy SL here➡️ https://bluesynergy.eu/

🌱 reminds us that sustainable rural communities are essential for Europe's future.

➡️Rural areas play a vital role in protecting biodiversity, producing food, managing natural resources and driving the transition towards a circular and climate-neutral economy. However, achieving this transition requires innovative solutions that are not only technically effective, but also environmentally, economically and socially sustainable.

✅At , we are committed to supporting this transformation by integrating assessments, circularity, social impact analysis and stakeholder engagement into European research and innovation projects. Through our work in EU-funded initiatives, we help ensure that new technologies and bio-based solutions are developed with long-term environmental and societal benefits in mind. From sustainable biomass valorisation and solutions to phytoremediation, resource efficiency and circular value chains, collaborative research is helping create more resilient rural regions across Europe.

👏Today, we celebrate the people, communities and innovators working to build a more sustainable future for rural areas—because innovation has the greatest impact when it improves both people and the planet.