In order to reach the political climate target of reducing carbon emissions by 70 % in 2030, the Innomission partnership MissionGreenFuels (MGF) aims to accelerate the renewable energy transition. As stressed in the partnership roadmap from 2021, it is critical to ensure support not only from private companies, public authorities and political stakeholders, but also the Danish civil society. Public and private stakeholders experience substantial skepticism and widespread concern from local citizens and interest groups when investors and developers initiate the establishment of vital technologies in the upstream production of green fuels like wind turbines, solar parks and Power-to-X (PtX) plants. To support the mission, this project will develop a national model for citizen engagement in the transition towards green fuels. In collaboration with key partners and with an interdisciplinary social scientific approach, including law, political science and anthropology, the project will design a model that enhances collaboration across scales. The model will thereby guide stakeholders across the green fuels value chain in creating engagement among local citizens. This will lead to three results: 1) Mitigate time consuming and costly conflicts with local citizens and interest groups, 2) provide an innovative environment for collaboration across the value chain, and 3) open a public dialogue for developing an engaged and democratic citizenship within the renewable energy transition.

Aquaculture is globally the fastest growing animal food production sector, but the needs for high quality live feed for early life stages of many fish species is a limiting factor. We will develop methods for sustainable industrial-scale production of novel healthy live feed for fish larvae and juveniles. We will use two terrestrial invertebrates (nematodes and white worms) to replace the widely used, but sub-optimal, Artemia. The project will also develop technologies that increase contents of essential omega-3 fatty acid (HUFA) in live feed and decrease the need for antibiotics in aquaculture. Cryopreservation techniques will be developed to ensure long shelf life and stable supplies. As a spin-out of the project, the universities and partner companies aim to establish industrial mass production of live feeds. We estimate a direct yearly value creation up to 70 mill DKK, assuming a 1% replacement of the existing sales of Artemia worldwide. Indirect value creation through increased profit of fish farmers will potentially be even larger, along with societal benefits through reduced CO2 emissions, reduced use of antibiotics, less exploitation of natural marine resources, and healthier foods for humans. We have built a complete consortium of complementary research groups, live feed producers and aquaculture companies that can take this project all the way to exploitation and commercialization of the results in frame of a new enterprise along with creation of new jobs.

The DeQD project represents a collaborative effort to advance quantum photonic technology, ultimately enabling the creation of synchronized, indistinguishable photons and advancing the fields of optical quantum computing and secure quantum communication. This progress hinges on innovative approaches to quantum material growth and device integration. A single chip housing single-photon sources capable of generating multiple synchronous and indistinguishable photons on demand is a sought-after component in quantum computation and quantum cryptography. Optical quantum computing is a rapidly advancing approach, and deterministic single-photon sources offer a promising avenue for scaling up. Previous work has confirmed the feasibility of this approach, demonstrating that the photon quality is sufficient to achieve quantum advantage. Scaling up to multiple single-photon sources is the next significant milestone, demanding further progress in quantum material growth and device fabrication. The outcome of the DeQD project is a novel method for deterministic growth of quantum dots and integrating them precisely into a photonic structure. Quantum dot growth relies on a molecular beam epitaxy system at DFM, followed by nanofabrication of devices at Sparrow Quantum and optical spectroscopy at NBI.