TRACELAND – Innovative traceability project in fisheries

New landing rules in fisheries and the European Digital Product Passport (DPP) are creating new requirements for more accurate data and better management of marine resources.

Chalmers Industriteknik, together with CodeIT and Sone4, has been awarded Eurostars funding from the EUREKA Network to develop Legal Landing, a user-friendly traceability solution for wild-caught fish that will offer a secure, efficient and cost-effective solution to fulfil these requirements. By being built in a flexible way, Legal Landing will be able to meet the traceability needs of companies of different sizes and sectors.

The project, called TRACELAND, aims to ensure product quality, sustainability, and legality in line with new industry requirements. TRACELAND will help the fishing industry to adapt quickly and smoothly to new regulations and improve transparency and efficiency in the fisheries sector.

The project will last over 2.5 years.

Eurostars is the largest international funding programme for small and medium-sized enterprises that aim to create innovative products, processes or services for commercialisation. TRACELAND was selected under Eurostars-3, Call 6, which ended in March 2024 and is co-funded by the national budgets of each partner state, via the Research Council of Norway (Forskningsrådet) and the Swedish Innovation Agency (Vinnova), as well as by the EUREKA Network.

This project has received funding from the Eurostars 3 programme with co-funding from the European Union’s research and innovation programme Horizon Europe.