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Algae Printing Lab with Morgan Rae from L’eautelier

An intimate, hands-on workshop exploring algae-based screen printing as a new language for textiles. Participants will learn the fundamentals of working with algae inks—mixing, handling, and printing—while customizing their own textile pieces. Wherever possible, we will print on seaweed-based textiles, offering a rare opportunity to experience a fully marine-derived material system in action. The session invites experimentation, tactility, and conversation around how ocean materials can redefine how we decorate, personalize, and value the surfaces we live with.

Find out more about Morgan under Program ->“Seaweed Suite^TM”

Morgan Rae - From L’eautelier

Storytelling Workshop

Stories are the veins of our modern world: Stories bring us together as friends around a dinner table, stories sell us goods and services we may or may not need, and stories are the foundation of all of our entertainment sources. Similarly your stories are what make you, you.

Everyone has stories to share and anyone can tell a great story. This workshop will teach you how to do exactly that: Tell a great story. To do that we will touch upon three big topics: The history of storytelling, the science behind a good story, and the power of performance.

We’ll look at how to extrapolate your own personal stories as a means of communicating about your research, and how you can animate your talks with out-of-the-box thinking and creativity that you weren’t sure you had.

Emma Holmes

Emma Holmes is a bubbly stand-up comedian, storyteller and entertainment entrepreneur. Each decade of her life has been spent in a different country leading her to feel confused about her nationality and sense of belonging. As the founder of EEH Productions, an entertainment and training company, she is kept busy with monthly theatre productions and soft-skills training workshops. In her spare time Emma loves to write, cycle tour and eat. She also has a fabulous collection of eclectic and colourful socks.

Mycopunk workshop with Poorva Shrivastava and Yuma Langenbach

Turn seaweed into something you can hold, shape, and stitch.

Poorva Shrivastava

MycoPunk invites you warmly to this hands-on workshop, where we’ll step into the rich, emerging space where seaweed materials, biodesign, and craft meet. Starting with alginate—a seaweed-derived polymer many of us know from the lab—we’ll transform it from solution into structure using crosslinking chemistry.

Using simple crochet techniques, we’ll turn these biofabricated yarns into small textile forms. By bridging biomaterials science and traditional craft practices like crochet, we’ll explore how making can become a mode of thinking—how loops, patterns, and textures can reveal new insights into material properties and possibilities. For many of you, this may be a rare chance to step outside familiar disciplinary frameworks and engage with your research in a more tactile, creative, and exploratory way.

Prerequisites: Zero prior experience is required—whether in chemistry, biofabrication, or textile crafts.

Materials: All essential materials and tools will be provided. However, if you have preferred crafting tools (such as favorite crochet hooks, knitting needles, or experimental implements), you are warmly encouraged to bring them along to push the boundaries of your bio-textile creations!

About:

Poorva Shrivastava is a biodesigner and biobased entrepreneur with a penchant for living materials and biofabrication. Yuma Langenbach is a biomimicry educator working at the intersection of biomimicry, nature-based learning, and the biobased economy. Poorva and Yuma are part of the collective MycoPunk, which is a collective exploring the intersection of microbiology, textile design, and biofabrication.

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Scale up your impact as a scientist: Developing Change Agency Skills as an Algaepreneur

Starthub Wageningen is the clubhouse for entrepreneurial changemakers, where entrepreneurship, science, and creativity converge.

As part of Wageningen University & Research (WUR), Starthub Wageningen offers students, scientists, and early-stage entrepreneurs the space and support to turn bold ideas into tangible solutions.

More details to be announced soon.

Starthub Wageningen

Business workshop

Discoverthree powerful digital toolsdesigned to accelerate algae innovation. In this hands-on session, AlgaeProBANOS introduces the Algae Dashboard, Algae Economist, and Algae Knowledge Base – practical platforms that help early-stage ventures explore markets, assess techno-economics, and access curated scientific insights. Test the tools yourself and see how smart decision-support can turn algae research into viable business opportunities.

AlgaeProBANOS is an EU-funded Horizon Europe project advancing sustainable algae products in the Baltic and North Sea regions.

AlgaeproBanos

Algae Mixology (Cocktails with Spirulina and more)

Come join us for a hands-on workshop where you'll mix your own natural blue cocktail or mocktail using Spirulina! Sample a range of BLU drinks, enjoy a free tasting, and experiment alongside others in a relaxed social setting.

But it's more than just drinks! It's a chance to get up close with one of the food industry's most exciting trends: algae-based ingredients. You'll meet the team from FUL Foods, a company already making waves with innovative, sustainable spirulina ingredients for the next generation of food and drink. It's also a great opportunity to learn about Algreen's work and how FUL Foods is building on that as an established player in the ingredients space.

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