Agri-food Biotech Scaling-up
Funded collaborative projects that help agri-food biotech SMEs scale fermentation-based products from lab to pilot and commercial scale.
Funded projects are expected to run for about 36 months. The funder measures success by the number of collaboration activities carried out, the scale-up SMEs achieve in volume or measurable process improvements such as higher yields or lower costs, and the total number of SMEs supported. The call funds bioeconomy projects focused on biotech in the agri-food sector, particularly biomass and precisi…
This call funds projects in the bioeconomy, with a focus on biotech applied to the food sector, especially biomass and precision fermentation technologies for food and feed. It wants projects that build collaboration between biotech clusters at a scale able to compete with global hubs, expected to run for around 36 months.
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