The project application with the provisional title “Sustainable and innovative technologies for better utilisation of by-products” development
Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies ·Latvia
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt">The main goal for the current projects is to develop and to submit a competitive and high-quality application for the international project call with the provisional title “Sustainable and innovative technologies for better utilisation of by-products”.</span></em></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt">The project will help scientists from Baltic countries and Norway (LV, EE, LT, NO) to develop a new project application with aim to solve current problems faced by the agricultural, food and fishery industries, applying research knowledge and up-to-date methods, maximally preserving the product's biologically active compounds considering sustainability principles.</span></em></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify"><em><span style="font-size: 10pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif">The project partners will have a better understanding of the scientific capabilities of each institution, closer contacts will be established and possibilities will be identified for future cooperation in project development and implementation, personal contacts and PhD students exchange.</span></span></em></p>
Bilateral cooperation results
The partners had previous experience in working together, and now have continued their collaboration in developing new projects proposals: “Valorization of Micro- and Macroalgae Species into High-Quality Seafood Alternatives (AlgVal)”; “Nano and advanced technologies for disease prevention, diagnostic and therapy (NANOTECMEC)”. If the project proposal is successfully evaluated, the team will work on project implementation, resulting in co-authored publications and promoting new ideas for participation in open project calls. One of the partners was the Norwegian institute SINTEF. The project partners carry out daily research on the extraction of chemical compounds from a wide variety of seafood. The Norwegian partners therefore had to work on extracting valuable substances from seafood. Scientists at the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Technology (FAFT) of the Activities implemented in the project (LBTU) are working on recycling by-products from the dairy industry, expanding their use. The Department of Functional Materials and Electronics (FTMC) at Vilnius University is dedicated to the application of environmentally friendly and innovative processing methods. FTMC uses pulsed electric field (PEF) technology. PEF is an innovative and promising processing technique that is already helping to obtain valuable compounds with anti-inflammatory properties and is used in food processing as an alternative to traditional heat treatment methods. In addition, PEF effectively reduces microbiological contamination in food products. This technology has proven to be a fast and efficient method, and it should be noted that it also consumes less energy. Therefore, the project team put forward the idea of adapting PEF to extract valuable compounds from fish, algae and dairy by-products. A fourth partner, the Estonian company TFTAK, a private research laboratory, dedicated to applying innovative technologies to the development of new products, has also joined the project.
Project partners
- SINTEF Ocean AS Donor project partner· Norway
- Center for Physical Sciences and Technology Project partner· Lithuania
- TFTAK Project partner· Estonia