Objectives and activities of the IntER-Cold are in synergy with the FME-Centre HighEFF, which aims for 10% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, 30% specific energy consumption and increased value creation. The project activities of IntER-Cold will be supported and elaborated by the following previous and ongoing projects at NTNU and SINTEF, which are related to seafood processing, shelf-life and utilization of by-products and waste:

• SusOrganic and SusOrgPlus: Development of smart, low energy input heat pump drying for increased sustainability in organic food chains / Development of quality standards and optimized processing methods (Era-Net and Bionær), 2015-2021
• FME centre HighEFF: Centre for an energy efficient and competitive Industry for the future, FME (FMETEKN2016-2024)
• Re-Food (International Partnership for Research and Education in energy efficient resource utilization in FOOD value chains between Norway and India (2017-2019);
• OptiHelix (Functional design of chilling tanks for salmon); SUPREME (Sustainable production of ingredients from whitefish rest raw materials (MARINFORSK 2019-22022),
• SGS-Concept (Concept development of full-scale soluble gas stabilization (SGS) technology for seafood, HAVBRUK II (2019-2023),
• DigiMat (Digital tools for increased work relevance in the food technology education, NU (2018-2019),
• OPTiMAT (Optimal utilization of marine food recourses (internal strategic project NTNU (2016-2024, 9 PhDs) and Curriculum Development for Sustainable Seafood and Nutrition Security (SSNS) (Erasmus 2017-2020).
• HighEFFLAB: National Laboratories for an energy efficient industry, FORINFRA (2017-2027).
• Sustainable energy in foods – research-education project between Norway and Russia. Energy efficiency in food production. (SIU); Role: laboratory experiments low temperature, vacuum-freeze and atmospheric freeze-drying of brown seaweeds, design of new dryers for seaweeds, modelling of drying kinetics, thermal properties, proposal writing, budget, activity planning, reporting.