Project description
Boosting agri-food innovation in Europe
Europe’s agri-food sector faces a challenge: despite significant investments in modern research infrastructures, countries such as Estonia, Poland and Portugal struggle with low international recognition and limited collaboration within European networks. The EU-funded CROSSPATHS project aims to leverage the resources of the Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research (PL), the Catholic University of Portugal (PT) and the Estonian University of Life Sciences (ES) to create a group specialising in delivery of innovative food solutions with health-promoting effects and limited environmental impact. By fostering cross-border collaborations and enhancing human resource development, CROSSPATHS seeks to strengthen their R&D capacity and competitiveness. This initiative aspires to establish these scientific units as key players, positioning them for success in Horizon Europe and beyond.
Objective
CROSSPATHS is an initiative of recognised scientific entities from three Widening countries Estonia (EST), Poland (PL) and Portugal (PT). Each has benefited from investments into modern agri-food research infrastructures from ERDF funds to boost their innovation capacity and establish commercialisation pathways. Each, however, acts in isolation, suffering from low international recognition, weak links to excellent European networks, poor participation in competitive grant consortia, and lacking know-how and skills on how to best valorise investments in research infrastructures and other existing assets.
An insightful mapping of our competences revealed unique expertise of each Partner such as food processing with valorisation of side streams (EST), green extraction techniques with identification of plant-based bioactive compounds (PT) and in vivo validation of their health-promoting effects (PL). We form a Group capable to deliver complex solutions in a food technology, health effects and bioeconomy.
The overall objective of the project is to implement cross-border pathways to put in place sequential synergies between ERDF-funded investments and Horizon Europe opportunities. This will be achieved via strategies of internationalization and HR development that improve competitiveness, knowledge transfer and strengthened innovation capacity to jointly apply for international funding. To achieve this, we will be benefiting from Wageningen Research and Innotrope experience, networks and advice.
Implementation of the CROSSPATHS will make of our consortium an attractive partner for Horizon Europe projects and beyond with well trained staff and established high reputation within ERA and internationally.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-04
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10-683 OLSZTYN
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