AGAPE represents a collaborative platform, AI based, able to bring to the EU aquaculture market, education approach, consumers and research ecosystems, for the first time, an innovative model of interaction among stakeholders and broaden community on skills, capabilities and competencies, globally and in real time. AGAPE’s main scope focuses on promoting the transition from the ordinary aquaculture market to a circular economy approach in the aquaculture field on re-skilling processes and awareness of cross knowledge while answering to an effective market demand of competences. AGAPE also helps companies to understand the capabilities of their workforce, compare those against industry benchmarks, identify emerging and future skills, and address gaps with “build, borrow, buy or bot” strategies; ensuring an agile and evolving workforce plan that adapts to the ever-changing business needs.

AGAPE contributes to achieve the objectives indicated in the Strategic Guidelines for the Sustainable Development of EU Aquaculture for the expansion of the aquaculture sector across the EU, together with the improvement of the perception and acceptance of aquaculture development, relies also on the need to implement formal engagement toward more effective communication systems among stakeholders. Besides, AGAPE implement the EU Pact for Skills, ’21 more than 54% of all workers need re/up-skilling by ‘24. Lastly, it pursuits the goal of quickly adjust the changing requirements of workforce over the pandemic scenario across the globe.