Publications
NIBIOs employees contribute to several hundred scientific articles and research reports every year. You can browse or search in our collection which contains references and links to these publications as well as other research and dissemination activities. The collection is continously updated with new and historical material.
2026
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Zhe Yu Yihui Du Qianwen Ding Qiang Hao Hongwei Yang Kerou Shi Chao Ran Yalin Yang Chen Wang Johan Johansen Giovanna Ottaviani Aalmo Zhen Zhang Zhigang ZhouAbstract
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Lampros LamprinakisAbstract
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Habtamu AlemAbstract
The lecture provides practical guidance on research proposal development and international funding opportunities, with a particular focus on Horizon Europe. It covers how to identify suitable funding calls, understand call requirements and eligibility, develop competitive research ideas, formulate clear and measurable objectives, and design a sound research methodology. It also explains the main components of a Horizon Europe proposal, including Part A and Part B, and provides step-by-step guidance on writing the Excellence, Impact, and Implementation sections. The lecture further addresses international partnership and consortium building, work packages, deliverables, milestones, risks, staff effort, budget allocation, dissemination, exploitation, communication, and proposal evaluation criteria. Real and illustrative project examples, including collaborations between Norwegian and African universities, are used to connect proposal-writing principles with practical research funding experience.
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Habtamu AlemAbstract
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Giovanna Ottaviani AalmoAbstract
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María Bustamante Liria Concetta Maria Messina Simona Manuguerra Andrea Santulli Giovanna Ottaviani AalmoAbstract
Despite significant progress in understanding the complexity of food systems’ challenges, there remains a lack of clarity around how these systems can undergo transformative change and what is required to enable such shifts. This paper focuses on social innovation as a promising mechanism for addressing structural challenges and reconfiguring food systems toward sustainability, equity, justice, and resilience. Our main contribution is the design of an actionable guidance that helps practitioners and researchers explore and leverage the transformative potential of social innovations. This guidance emerges from a dialogue between a key framework for analyzing social-ecological transformations and recent advancements in Transformative Social Innovation (TSI) theory. By incorporating insights on adaptive, bottom-linked governance and relational dynamics into the SES processual framework, we strengthen its applicability to TSI analysis and make it more adaptable for real-world contexts. We apply this guidance to a case study in Western Sicily’s aquatic food systems, where a long-standing social innovation – rooted in Living Lab methodologies and collaborative governance – demonstrates the potential to challenge dominant values by reconfiguring dominant social relations, empower local actors, and engage with both deep and shallow leverage points, contributing to systemic transformations. By combining cross-field dialogue with empirical application, this paper offers both practical tools for analyzing and designing transformative social innovation processes and practical insights into how social innovations can contribute to more sustainable, resilient, and equitable futures. It directly speaks to practitioners, scholars, and policy makers interested in enabling systemic transformation through socially embedded innovation processes.
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In this paper, we propose a fishery control scheme that happens to be first best in the context of a Gordon‐Schaefer model with asymmetric information about effort/harvesting costs. It is widely acknowledged that in the absence of regulations, competition between vessels leads to a competitive game wherein the outcome is inefficient. We introduce a management scheme that regulates the fishing industry through an individual convex tax on effort or on catches. The shares of this tax can be traded in a market, thus solving problems related to asymmetric information. This can be achieved since heterogeneous fishing firms are individually stimulated to solve the same optimality problem as a social planner would. We apply this model to the Northwest Mediterranean demersal fishery as a case study.
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Lampros LamprinakisAbstract
The valorization of seafood by-products is often framed as a technical opportunity, yet adoption in practice depends on whether small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) can embed new systems in their operational, economic, spatial, and regulatory realities. Drawing on survey-based evidence from Greek fisheries and seafood enterprises, the analysis identifies key operational and economic constraints and translates them into a configurational model of adoption credibility for blue SMEs. In the proposed TIDE framework, adoption credibility depends on alignment across four distinct dimensions: Technological Fit, Institutional Enablement, Deployment Fit, and Economic-Organizational Fit. The framework links firm-level conditions with techno-economic performance metrics, including cost–benefit indicators (e.g., CAPEX/OPEX per unit, avoided disposal costs, payback period) and system optimization variables, such as throughput variability and process efficiency. The theoretical insights illustrate that optimal valorization outcomes depend on the alignment between system design and SME-specific constraints, particularly in relation to deployment models (on-site units, shared hubs, and mobile services). The study provides a structured approach for integrating cost–benefit analysis and technical optimization with real-world adoption conditions, offering practical guidance for designing scalable, low-CAPEX/OPEX valorization solutions.