A key strength of AQUA-FAANG is industrial engagement across a portfolio of the six most important European farmed fish species. This engagement will allow co-development of commercially relevant outputs with lasting impacts in European aquaculture. An important general route to commercial impact will be through these project partners, including breeding and genetics services companies.The target audience consists of academic and non-academic stakeholders including researchers, aquaculture breeding industry, biotechnology, vaccine and pharmaceutical companies, industry organisations, trade bodies and pan-European networks, policymakers, media, public and consumers.

Exploitation working group
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The Exploitation Working Group (EWG) is a unique platform for cooperation and collaboration between AQUA-FAANG and relevant stakeholder groups including the aquaculture breeding and other relevant industry that would uptake the results of the project. The group will have three physical meetings to broadly discuss the possibilities for uptake of project results, and giving opportunity for non-academic stakeholders to shape the direction of the project.

Knowledge Exchange Platform

The Knowledge Exchange Platform (KEP) consists of project coordinators from other projects to facilitate coordination of relevant activities across the different consortia. The project managers from other funded projects will meet and discuss how to maximize knowledge exchange, encourage collaboration and facilitate standardization of functional annotation. This knowledge exchange platform enables communication between relevant EU projects and initiatives, and coordinate knowledge and data exchange. The KEP also aims to organize joint communication and dissemination events to increase the uptake of results by joint stakeholders outside the projects.