Organisation - March 17, 2010
Experiment with algae cultivation gets green light
The construction of AlgaePARC, which contains test facilities for the cultivation of algae, has been given the go-ahead. This week, the Executive Board agreed to the project, a joint initiative by the Bioprocess Technology And Food and Biobased Research chair groups. The testing facilities are within a stone's throw of Wageningen campus.

Trial runs
'The detailed drawings will be ready in April', says Israel. 'We hope to start construction in May or June.' Trial runs will be carried out using the facilities at the end of the summer. The building costs amount to more than two million euros, to be paid by the Province and the Ministry of Agriculture. The various research projects at AlgaePARC will be funded with money from the natural gas revenues and the private sector. A sum of at least four million euros is already available for this.