Programme for Blue Food's yearly meeting 2025

Blue Food's yearly meeting 2025 will take place on 1 and 2 October 2025 at Torsåker Farm in Upplands Väsby, north of Stockholm.

The program is preliminary and will be updated regularly.

Wednesday 1 October

Moderator: Markus Langeland, RISE, Executive Director Blue Food

10.10 Bus transportation from Cityterminalen, Stockholm
Via Upplands Väsby commuter train station, the bus is expected to arrive at Ladbrovägen, on the west side of the station, at 10.50

11.00 Registration and coffee

11.30 Welcome to Torsåker Farm and Blue Food's yearly meeting

11.50 Tour of Torsåker farm, experience lunch

14.00 Block I - The national food strategy and Swedish seafood 

• "Food Strategy 2.0"
  Hanna Wessling, Ministry of Rural Affairs and Infrastructure"
• The role and mission of the Swedish Board of Agriculture in relation to the national food strategy"
  Lina Waara, Swedish Board of Agriculture
• "Dietary advice on seafood - Swedish National Food Agency"
  Sabina Litens Karlsson, Swedish National Food Agency

15.15 Block II - Seafood & preparedness
Moderator: Ingrid Undeland, Chalmers

• "Herring value chains, challenges and needs"
  Sara Hornborg, RISE
• "What is sustainable consumption of fish from the Baltic Sea?"
  Cecilia Solér, University of Gothenburg
• "Towards safer and more stable herring-based foods: Antioxidant strategies and Contaminant insights"
  John Axelsson, Chalmers
• "Do we sometimes cross the river for water?"
  Krishan Kent, Swedish Seafood Federation

16.15 Coffee and mingle

16.45 Block III - Sustainability

• Workshop "Sustainable seafood - what is it, how do we get there, are we there?"
  Sara Hornborg, RISE
• "Fish of the future"
  Pontus Gunnarsson, SLU, Hanna Carlberg, SLU, Christian Sjöland, Axfoundation

18.00 Drink

18.30 Dinner

21.15 Bus transportation to Ten Hotel, Upplands Väsby

Thursday 2 October

Moderator: Fredrik Gröndahl, KTH, centre director Blue Food

8.30 Bus transportation from Ten Hotel, Upplands Väsby to Torsåker farm

9.00 Summary of the first day, second day's program
Fredrik Gröndahl, KTH, Blue Food

9.10 Seafood Campaign and Seafood Day October 19
Kristina Snuttan Sundell, Carl-Johan Skogh, University of Gothenburg

9.30 Block IV - Scaling up & sustainability

• "Blue Food Task 1.4 - Synthesis by Cost-Benefit Analysis"
  Jean-Baptiste Thomas & Linus Hasselström, KTH
• "How can research contribute to achieving sustainability goals"
  Kristina Bergman, KTH
• "Co-cultivation of rainbow trout and duckweed"
  Mica Andersson, University of Gothenburg
• "Sustainable Seaweed Production Upscaling"
  Vita Weitong Xu, KTH
• "Underwater robotic mapping with fluorescence and hyperspectral analysis for ecological applications"
  Laura Kvarnstrand, KTH

10.30 Coffee and mingle

11.00 Block V - Lessons learned from blue journeys

• Introduction
  Lillemor Lindberg, Innovatum Science Park, Blue Food
• Ocean Collective
  Jörgen Bergqvist
• From lab bench to HOW
  Matilda Olstorpe
• We Swedish Fishermen
  Teija Aho 
• Guldhaven Pelagiska
  Emma Gabrielsson

12.00 Lunch

13.00 Block VI - More Swedish seafood on the plate

• Introduction
  Veronica Öhrvik, Axfoundation
• "From first sight to first bite. The impact of textural modification on acceptance of bivalves."
  Elena Costa, University of Gothenburg
• "Tailoring post harvest stabilization strategies for sea lettuce (Ulva fenestrata) to diversify its use as a food ingredient"
  Mar Vall-Llosera, Chalmers
• "Next steps in seaweed fermentation: exploring co-fermentation to improve fermented seaweed ingredients"
  Evangelia Zioga, KTH & DTU
• "Process and Product Development"
  Rufa Mendez, Chalmers

13.45 Closing
Markus Langeland, RISE and Blå mat, Veronica Öhrvik, Axfoundation

14.00 Coffee and mingle

14.35 Bus transportation to Cityterminalen, estimated time of arrival 15.35
Via Upplands Väsby commuter train station