This platform was funded by the Interreg Italia-Malta project Bythos and is managed by the University of Palermo, Department of Biological, Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Technologies STEBICEF.
Bythos – Biotechnologies for Human Health and Blue Growth is an innovation and cooperation project funded by the EU Interreg V-A Italia-Malta programme (Code C1-1.1-9). It is a joint space in Sicily and Malta created to share technologies and skills in biotechnologies for human health and blue growth, and increase synergic action between researchers and enterprise. The project has identified extraction protocols for bioactive ingredients for the cosmetics, pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industries, and formulated innovative fish feed from fish residues in collaboration with local industry.