The two-year Interreg VI-A Italy-Slovenia 2021-2027 project, titled CIRCULAR RAINBOW - Promoting circular trout farming that optimizes production, environmental and economic sustainability, and responds to the effects of climate change, officially started on April 15 and was publicly presented on July 17 in Domžale next to Ljubljana.
The cooperation area between Italy and Slovenia is characterized by a well-established trout farming sector operating in vulnerable environments that are increasingly affected by climate change. "Current environmental and economic sustainability challenges, which must be balanced with traditional production systems, can find solutions in new models designed to recover and reuse waste based on circular economy principles," explained Gloriana Cardinaletti, PhD, from the Department of Agri-food, Environmental, and Animal Sciences at the University of Udine, who is also the Project Manager.
In this context, CIRCULAR RAINBOW (“circular as the economic model and “rainbow” as the rainbow trout) aims to introduce technologically innovative solutions, still underutilized in the program area, to support the trout farming sector. The issue of production self-sufficiency and resource supply, including energy, is highly relevant today, and the transition from traditional open-loop production models to closed-loop systems that "create/recreate – use/reuse" becomes a strategic approach.
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The CIRCULAR RAINBOW project is coordinated by the University of Udine - Department of Agri-food, Environmental, and Animal Sciences (Di4A), with partners including the University of Ljubljana - Faculty of Biotechnology, Blufarm Srl, and the Chamber of Agriculture and Forestry of Slovenia - Agricultural and Forestry Institute of Kranj (KGZS-Zavod KR).
