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Controlling mIcRobiomes CircuLations for bEtter food Systems

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Smart microbiome food systems for sustainable EU food systems

The smart microbiome food systems (SMFSs) represent a solution for responsible, competitive and secure EU food systems. The EU-funded CIRCLES project intends to discover and deploy innovative microbiomes-tailored circular actions into concrete applications to increase the sustainability of the EU food system. The project will create real-world labs in the field of six food systems relevant to the EU market – tomatoes, spinach, poultry, pigs, Atlantic salmon, and seabream aquacultures – to understand the role of the food system microbiomes in productivity, quality, safety and sustainability. The circular actions will rely on the integrative use of different smart microbiome modulators. The results will provide the EU with innovative and cost effective commercial applications.

Objective

CIRCLES aims to discover and translate innovative microbiomes-tailored circular actions into concrete applications that will ultimately enhance EU food system performances and their overall sustainability. The setup of real-world labs in the field of 6 food systems relevant to the EU market – tomatoes, spinach, poultry, pigs, Atlantic salmon and seabream aquacultures – will, first, enable CIRCLES to increase knowledge on the importance of food system microbiomes as determinants of productivity, quality, safety and sustainability. This discovery phase will nurture the design and implementation of food system-specific microbiomes-tailored circular actions. Relying on an integrative usage of different Smart Microbiome (SM)-modulators, circular actions aim to optimize the microbiomes of food systems, from farm to fork, for an overall improvement of food system performances. The effectiveness of actions will then be tested in the labs in the field. This real-world validation phase will allow CIRCLES to translate the project results into concrete products, applications, procedures and tools, ready to be exploited and communicated to penetrate the EU market. In particular, CIRCLES will conceptualize and create SM-food systems for the 6 CIRCLES food chains, defined as food systems with optimized microbiome configurations. CIRCLES will also provide innovative, newly defined SM-food products, as foods derived from the SM-food systems and certified by Microbiome Transparent (MT)-labels. Finally, a vast panel of food system-specific SM-modulators will be provided as new agro-biotech applications to be integrated into circular actions to reach the status of SM-food system. In conclusion, the conceptualization, creation, and dissemination of SM-food systems, as well as all connected procedures, products, and tools, will allow CIRCLES to endow the EU food systems with new, cost-effective commercial applications for improved productivity, quality, safety and sustainability.

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Call for proposal

H2020-SFS-2018-2020

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Sub call

H2020-SFS-2018-1

Funding Scheme

IA - Innovation action

Coordinator

ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - UNIVERSITA DI BOLOGNA
Net EU contribution
€ 2 166 213,75
Address
Via zamboni 33
40126 Bologna
Italy

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Nord-Est Emilia-Romagna Bologna
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Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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EC signature date 5 October 2018
Last update: 9 July 2023

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