VIAL provides companies and SMEs in the agrifood sector with a transnational and multilingual service of technological and economic intelligence. This high added-value information was obtained by exploiting and enhancing digital content present, in particular, in specialised databases and on the Internet. The resulting enhanced access of companies and SMEs to strategic information will improved their competitiveness and innovation potential. It also contributed to a better environment (clean technologies, for instance) and to citizen's health and quality of life through better and safer food.