Several actors have been focusing on seaweed lately. There is for instance the Danish-Swedish Interreg project Greater Bio, financed by the European Regional Development Fund with the aim of developing a sustainable bioeconomy both in terms of resource use and energy production in the Greater Copenhagen area.
The Swedish municipality of Trelleborg is taking part in the project by trying to find a solution to how the stinking seaweed on the beaches of the south coast of Skåne can become an economic resource by transforming it into a sustainable product.
There are also other research projects in the Nordics that are looking at seaweed’s potential.