The packaging industry is responsible of around 60% of post-consumer SUP wastes and most likely to become litter in natural environments. While factors such as fast consumption patterns, safety concerns or compact size, hinder effective packaging waste recycling, the need for safe alternative biodegradable solutions is mandatory. E-OILÉ will address safe and sustainable biodegradable packaging solutions close to the market by: a) demonstrating at TRL 7 cost effective production of biodegradable materials based on novel biopolyesters and polysaccharides, engineered to enhance barrier and mechanical performance, to replace Polyolefin materials (PP and PE) and PET in monodose packaging solutions ecodesigned as biodegradable monomaterial structures or combination with coating technologies and following the SSbD framework ; b) implementing a circular business model, food and cosmetic products, through 4 Uses Cases (UC): Olive oil- UC1; oily sauces- UC2; Body oil- UC3 and Oil serum- UC4); c) validating the packaging performance, shelf life, safety and sustainability along the whole supply chain (from material producers to end users) and demonstrating complete biodegradability following relevant standards and in environmentally relevant conditions and, therefore, sustainable End-of-Life (EoL) pathways for the new packaging solutions in combination with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and advanced modelling mechanisms for digitally-assisted accurate prediction of degradation processes. The consortium is integrated by 15 partners of the whole supply chain: large companies, SMEs and Start-up as materials producers (2) to the end-users of food and cosmetic sectors (2) through the packaging producers (3). Partnership will also involve supporting RTOs and other non-profit organizations with expertise in disciplines such as compounding, SSbD, biodegradation testing, packaging and product validation, exploitation, SSH for consumer engagement and digital technologies

If biodiversity is to be placed back on a path to recovery, new tools and knowledge are required to redirect financial resources from destructive economic activity towards nature-positive investment. The financial system consists of interacting and dynamic actors who value certainty (rules and governance structures) and efficiency (outcome transparency and low monitoring costs). We aim to create a unifying framework and technology that creates the enabling conditions for nature-positive investments. Activities that protect and restore biodiversity (such as nature-based solutions) are frequently unique, multi-actor efforts carried out at a local scale with positive, but complex outcomes. We resolve this by establishing a categorisation of nature based solutions (NBS) alongside a menu of good governance structures and a library of stakeholder engagement. This will draw on expertise and best practice in natural capital and economics to streamline decision making and accelerate transaction completion by standardising the investment process and creating the enabling conditions for large-scale finance. To accelerate nature-positive business models, we create a data analytics and underwriting engine to advance conventional project appraisal and risk assessment and account for and model expected outcomes. We will assess and validate our approach across diverse real-life case studies (learning sites). Our findings and approach will initiate a twin green and digital transition that resolves transaction complexity and creates the enabling conditions for large-scale investment that are required if the EU is to achieve its biodiversity goals. Our outcomes will identify remaining gaps in the Taxonomy and support policy forming through evidence-based recommendations and we will co-design, develop and establish pathways for skills and knowledge accelerators for the European financial services industry.

Innovation in the food industry has been positioned as a societal challenge with high potential for sustainable competiveness, innovation and growth. This requires the development and further application of technologies for a sustainable food chain; safe foods and healthy diets for all. Particularly, the increase of productivity will contribute to meet the demands of a growing population, but also the market will become more financially sustainable and attractive to the growth of new food businesses. One of the key benefits the SUIT4FOOD project hopes to achieve, is the application and scaling-up of alternative food processes resulting in higher product quality, longer shelf-life, fewer lost sales, reduction in costs due to water and energy. Alternatives to current technologies are also important in support of the Common Agricultural Policy and the Bioeconomy Policy. The overall aim of this strategic partnership is to introduce, teach and train early stage researchers in the area of sustainable Intervention technologies for controlling food safety and stability through a multilateral trans-European cooperation, which fosters both institutional collaboration and innovative problem based learning initiatives. Development of sound Standard Operation Procedures (SOPs), optimisation of alternative sustainable intervention technologies for food processing, transferring knowledge to industry are of great importance to support food industry and food management (traceability, food safety). The specific objectives are outlined hereunder: (i) To develop each participants’ capacity to get familiar with the main principles, mode of action and current applications of a number of physical intervention technologies for controlling microorganisms and enzymatic activity in food matrices. (ii) To build up skills in setting-up these technologies at laboratory, pilot and industrial scale and identifying critical operating parameters. (iii) To provide transversal competences of the participating teachers to develop autonomous initiatives in problem based studies of complex food processes including the quantitative analysis of the microbial and enzymatic activity following the application of these technologies. (iv) To expose the students to current legislation aspects (v) To provide the knowledge of transfer strategies in order to implement these technologies in the European food industry. (vi) To create awareness of public acceptance challenges knowledge transfer strategies and entrepreneurial opportunities to implement these technologies. The consortium of the SUIT4FOOD project will be consisted of experts in different novel food processes from institutions within EU. This include Research and Development Institutes such as: • University of Malta (Malta) which will bring an expertise in ultrasound processing, kinetic modelling as well as on developing (e-learning) educational material in higher education and also on engagement public to scientific outcomes. • National Technical University of Athens (Greece) which will bring expertise in high pressure, pulsed electric field processing of food products, kinetic modelling and developing educational material. • The Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB) is bringing expertise in cold atmospheric plasma technology, and high pressure processing and training graduate and post-graduate researchers. • The SP-Technical Research Institute of Sweden (Sweden) will bring expertise in the area of microwave processing and training graduate and post-graduate researchers. • The Spanish National Research Council (Spain) and the Research Group on Quality, Safety and Bioactivity of Plant Foods will bering expertise in the area of UV light processing and training graduate and post-graduate researchers. Industrial partners such as: • Neoplas GmbH (Germany), a service provider for technology transfer, technology development and technology management will bring expertise in the area of plasma processing and scale up issues. • Creta Farm (Greece) is the market leader in deli meats and will bring expertise in high pressure processing in the real food chain. And Stakeholders such as: • The Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI) (Austria) will bring expertise in the area of harmonization of global food safety regulations and legislation. •ILSI Europe (Belgium) will organise webinar recordings and e-learning modules, provide feedback on the teaching material via its Microbiological Food Safety Task Force and provide suggestions for relevant speakers at the workshops and other dissemination events. The target group of this strategic partnership are MSc or early stage PhD researchers working in the areas of food engineering, food safety, process automation, food manufacturing. The programme will aim to promote an interactive participation, which will stimulate frank and open discussions between young and experienced postgraduate researchers.

The TITAN project will demonstrate the latest transparency related solutions to help drive the formation of a demand-driven European economy predicted on the production and consumption of healthy, sustainable, and affordable food. Comprising 28 partners from 14 countries (10 MS and 2 associated countries), TITAN will provide an extensive platform for the development of a wide range of innovations that aid transparency and address key challenges identified in the European Green Deal (EGD). With a broad mix of cutting-edge technology providers SMEs and start-ups, linked to leading research centres and agri-food stakeholders, TITAN, through dedicated business support together with a €1.25M open call, will provide a fertile breeding ground of ideas and solutions for businesses to thrive within the new strategy of the EGD. Through a co-creation approach, 15 innovative solutions including exploiting Blockchain, AI and IoT will be demonstrated in a first wave of TITAN transparency related innovations. These will be supplemented by a further wave of innovations on themes selected by stakeholders in an open call that will be open at the end of Year 1 of this four-year project. The new innovations will deliver transparency solutions in the areas of food safety and authenticity, traceability, health and sustainability and improving information to the consumer. The innovations will be supported by cross cutting WPs dedicated to transparency, ICT solutions, policy, business support, management and communication and dissemination. The project is led by industry facing, not-for-profit organisations with extensive outreach capabilities within Europe and beyond that will enhance the transferability and upscaling and impact of TITAN solutions and provide the building blocks of a demand-driven economy that provides healthy, sustainable, and accessible food for its citizens.

FNS-Cloud will overcome fragmentation problems by integrating existing FNS data, which is essential for high-end, pan-European FNS research, addressing FNS, diet, health, and consumer behaviours as well as on sustainable agriculture and the bio-economy. Current fragmented FNS resources not only result in knowledge gaps that inhibit public health and agricultural policy, and the food industry from developing effective solutions, making production sustainable and consumption healthier, but also do not enable exploitation of FNS knowledge for the benefit of European citizens. FNS-Cloud will, through three Demonstrators; Agri-Food, Nutrition & Lifestyle and NCDs & the Microbiome to facilitate: (1) Analyses of regional and country-specific differences in diet including nutrition, (epi)genetics, microbiota, consumer behaviours, culture and lifestyle and their effects on health (obesity, NCDs, ethnic and traditional foods), which are essential for public health and agri-food and health policies; (2) Improved understanding agricultural differences within Europe and what these means in terms of creating a sustainable, resilient food systems for healthy diets; and (3) Clear definitions of boundaries and how these affect the compositions of foods and consumer choices and, ultimately, personal and public health in the future. Long-term sustainability of the FNS-Cloud will be based on Services that have the capacity to link with new resources and enable cross-talk amongst them; access to FNS-Cloud data will be open access, underpinned by FAIR principles (findable, accessible, interoperable and re-useable). FNS-Cloud will work closely with the proposed Food, Nutrition and Health Research Infrastructure (FNHRI) as well as METROFOOD-RI and other existing ESFRI RIs (e.g. ELIXIR, ECRIN) in which several FNS-Cloud Beneficiaries are involved directly.