ACTIVITY BASED RESOURCES ALLOCATION (ABRA) MODEL ON ASSESSING COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF IMTA INSTALLATIONS

For the purposes of IMPAQT project (H2020, GA 774109), the research team assigned to assess the cost effectiveness of Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA), exploring methodologies to evaluate IMTA against mono-culture installations, being the previous state on Marine Institute site, the leading project's pilot partner. Combining existing literature and actual day-to-day observations on the pilot site provided by both managerial and research executives, Harokopio University and Marine Institute research teams worked on the activity-based resources allocation (ABRA) model to assess the cost-effectiveness of IMTA. The model provides allocation by both activity and species on site, in order to provide a clear before/after comparison.