INTEREST - INnovative TEchnologies for REcovery of valuable compounds from agri-food and seafood side STreams for food applications
Institute of Horticultur ·Latvia
About this project
<p style="text-align: justify"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="color: #000000">The project goal is to prepare and submit a joint project within the EU research and innovation support program Horizon Europe framework by strengthening cooperation and joint research within the framework, using the strengths of each partner (LatHort, EMU and NTNU) – equipment, experience and ideas – as well as searching for more partners, especially in the field of regulatory aspects, public health, nanotechnology and zero-waste economy. </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif"><span style="color: #000000">The main result of the project execution: one joint project within the framework of the EU research and innovation support program Horizon Europe will be prepared and submitted. To achieve this result, it is planned to organize at least four online / on-site events (meetings, brainstorming, seminars) and three experience exchange trips. LatHort plans to hire an external service for the preparation of the joint project application. To ensure publicity, at least eight informative updates about the project and the activities carried out are planned to post on each of the partners' websites and social networks.</span></span></span><span style="color: #000000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt">The project will stimulate collaborative research on EU and regional level and offers splendid possibilities for PhD and postdoctoral students’ research.</span></p>
Bilateral cooperation results
The common challenges of the Baltic States in the field of research are characterized by several aspects, including the lack of allocated funds for cooperation between countries, fragmented public funding, and insufficient collaboration between the state, academic and private sectors. The project strengthened the close cooperation of the participating institutions: Institute of Horticulture, (LatHort, Latvia), Estonian University of Life Sciences (EMU, Estonia), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, Norway) and industry representatives, because of submitting project applications within the framework of the EU research and innovation support program Horizon Europe thus improving research achievements at the international level. The experience exchange events organized within the project, by getting to know the research directions, opportunities and challenges of cooperation partners - scientific organizations, created prerequisites for choosing the most suitable project tenders, offering individual solutions to representatives of industries. Two international project applications were prepared and submitted by involving partners and commercial companies from other European countries in the consortium. They envisage research and development of solutions for the expanded use of agro-industry and seafood processing by-products. The financing of the Norwegian financial instrument program made it possible to get to know partners more comprehensively, to meet various specialists from scientific research institutions, to learn about the experience and perspective of colleagues from other countries in solving important global problems for companies, and to establish contacts for the preparation of new international project applications. The project stimulated the ideas generation for joint research at the European Union and regional level, including opportunities for doctoral and postdoctoral student mobility.
Project partners
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology Donor project partner· Norway