Eleni Christoforou is an early career researcher affiliated with the Oikotoxicologia group of the Cyprus University of Technology. For her STSM titled “Biodiversity of coastal meiofaunal species of Cyprus”, she was hosted at Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in Leiden, Netherlands.

Azza Silotry Naik is an assistant lecturer at TUDublin, Ireland. She was awarded the STSM and carried out her research on the topic ‘To investigate the chemical stability of microalgal proteins to be used as functional ingredients’ at Dr. Mahesha Poojary’s lab at the Department of Food Science at University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Andreas Christou is a scientific associate at Cyprus University of Technology, in the Chemical Engineering Department. He was awarded to a STSM at Hellenic Centre of Marine Research at the Heraklion, Crete.

Jokūbas Krutkevičius is a PhD student at Sector of Applied Biocatalysis at the Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Centre of Vilnius University (Lithuania). He was awarded with a Short Term

Buki Rinkevich was awarded with STSM at the Comprehensive Pneumology Center at Helmholtz Center Munich for performing metabolomics on thraustochytrids maintained under various media conditions.

Postdoctoral researcher Nathalia Nocchi from Universidad de La Laguna (Spain) had a STSM in the NOVA University of Lisbon (Portugal).

PhD student Federica Montesanto from University of Bari (Italy) performed STSM at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Postdoctoral researcher Sara Garcia Davis from Universidad de La Laguna (Spain) was awarded to STSM at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal.

STSM participant Joana Sousa is a PhD student at the Blue Biotechnology & Biomedicine lab led by Dr Susana P. Gaudêncio at UCIBIO FCT-NOVA. She was awarded with STSM at

Donata Overlinge had her STSM at the University of Gdansk, Division of Marine Biotechnology, in Poland. During this visit she had the opportunity to deepen her knowledge by performing various