The final session was opened by the project coordinator and director of CIIMAR, Vitor Vasconcelos, by the Vice-Rector for Research and Innovation of the University of Porto, Pedro Rodrigues, and by the Pro-Rector for Infrastructure and Scientific Projects at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Jaime Sampaio. In this session, the main conclusions of the 5 research lines of the project were presented, via the several public presentations in the agenda and via a poster exposition. The ATLANTIDA project developed a platform for monitoring the North Atlantic Ocean and tools for the sustainable exploitation of marine resources, providing new data, information, and products, such as threats to biodiversity, climate change, sustainable management of resources, and renewable energy. The project focused on emerging and understudied species and ecosystems in the North Portuguese Ocean, as well as estimated the impacts of microplastics and other contaminants. Tools were created for the sustainable growth of aquaculture and biobanks of marine organisms were developed. Finally, marine biomass was valued, exploring it in terms of biotechnological applications, such as pharmaceutical, industrial, and environmental – bioremediation.
At the closure of the event, it was registered the intention was to continue the, although challenging, clearly positive and fruitful collaboration between the project partners, through synergies and future work, within the scope of new applications for competitive scientific funding programs.
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