European Maritime Day 2025

21–23 May 2025 | Cork, Ireland

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Maeve Edwards

Director and Co-Founder of Irish Seaweed Consultancy Ltd

Irish Seaweed Consultancy Ltd

Galway, Ireland

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Irish Seaweed Consultancy Ltd. (ISC) specializes in science-based products and services to help the European seaweed industry develop and grow.

My organisation

Irish Seaweed Consultancy Ltd. (ISC) is a female-led company based in the West of Ireland since 2013. We specialise in science-based products and services designed for the seaweed industry and wider community using our scientific knowledge of seaweed to help the European seaweed industry develop and grow. These include biomass surveys, resource management, outreach and education, seaweed aquaculture/hatchery services, laboratory analyses, product and business development. Our work focuses on private commercial projects as well as EU co-funded research projects such as I3-4-Seaweed and Blue Bio Boost.
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About me

Phycologist turned business owner with 23 years of applied macroalgal research.

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Skills

  • Seaweed
  • Aquaculture
  • Research
  • outreach & education

Interests

  • Palmaria palmata
  • Kelps
  • New species development

Speaker sessions (1)

Friday, 23 May 2025

15:00 - 16:15

Workshop 23 "Driving Innovation in the Blue Bioeconomy: Algae "

Format:In-personLocation:UCC-Centre for Executive EducationTrack:Workshop - UCC Centre for Executive Education
  • Food security (blue biotechnology, aquaculture, fisheries, algae, biodiversity etc.)

The workshop is organized by EurA Innovation Ecosystems (EU4Algae).