Innov’Alliance is involved in several European projects

The BIOTECH4FOOD project aims to facilitate investment & innovation across new value chains at the nexus between biotechnologies and the agri-food industry, thanks to inter-regional collaborations. Objectives are to make agri-food industry more sustainable, with more circular manufacturing practices, efficiently valorising biomass resources, better connected to consumer demands, responding to nutrition, proteins & health challenges, for a sustainable agro-food system. The project focusses on industrial biotechnology (fermentation, enzymes, microbial proteins, etc.), deploying TR6+ innovative biotech solutions.
BIOTECH4FOOD will support agri-food SMEs to set-up and scale-up new value chains through the delivery of financial & non-financial, tangible & intangible support.
The core of the workplan is made of acceleration/capacity/matchmaking activities and a dynamic portfolio of investment projects by “anchor-SMEs”. BIOTECH4FOOD will operate with a total budget of more than 4.2 Euros, at least 70% of which is devoted to operational support for SMEs.
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The aim of MINASMART is to support small and medium-sized companies in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in their digital transformation and innovation, within the 6 strategic regional sectors – energy, mechanical engineering, textiles, environment, agritech/foodtech and health – as well as the industry of the future in a cross-functional approach.

The 12 partners will provide a range of services for SME focused on cybersecurity, artificial intelligence and high performance computing

For more info, please visit : https://european-digital-innovation-hubs.ec.europa.eu/edih-catalogue/minasmart

B-Resilient sets an ambitious package of support actions to empower food processing SMEs to become more resilient by means of an optimum use of biomass, and with appropriate digital solutions. The project focuses on maximizing the use of available feedstock and its subsequent valorization of side streams into innovative bio-based ingredients. B-Resilient project is built on a zero-waste and circular concept, improving the competitiveness of food processing SME from an environmentally sustainable perspective. 

B-Resilient Project brings together 8 leading European clusters from 5 Different countries. The project counts with 1,5 million as total budget of European funding issued by the SMP COSME programme. 1,12 million out of the total budget goes directly to Food Processing SME thanks to the B-Resilient Financial Support to Third Parties Scheme.  

The vouchers available under the Scheme will enhance: 

• Innovation, by addressing close-to-market innovation projects and funding support from financing solution and technology providers that inject knowhow into the participating SMEs regarding innovative, green and/or digital processes and technologies;  

• Business resilience, by supporting relevant knowledge, training, and learning opportunities to draw up Business Continuity Plans for SMEs, guided by experts; 
• Internationalization, by financing internationalization services by thirds parties 

For more information, please visit the project’s webiste 

The aim of HIGHFIVE is to support and facilitate the implementation of digital solutions in food processing SMEs. This through interregional innovation investments to accelerate the dual (digital and green) transition in Europe. 

The project provides three years of support for agri-food companies to succeed in the global value chains, strong international competition, market and innovation barriers, and rapid digital and green transformation. 

HIGHFIVE is funded under the I3 (Interregional Innovation Investments) initiative. 

For more info, please visit : https://highfive.ss4af.com/about 

The objective of the Food–scalEUp project is to develop new acceleration services for SMEs and startups and to facilitate the exchange of knowledge and best practices between accelerators.  

Food‑scalEUp gathers 10 European clusters from the agri‑food and digital sectors coming from 11 regions across EU based ion 5 EU countries (France, Germany ,Hungary, Spain, The Netherlands).  

Food-scalEUp is funded by Horizon Europe 

For more info, please visit : https://food-scaleup.com/fr/   

S3FOOD is a research and innovation supporting European project under Horizon 2020 (Innosup) programme.  It specifically aimed at SMEs from the food processing industry, technology providers and providers of digital solutions. 

The project provided 2.8 million euros to support European SMEs via project vouchers, to be used either as a travel budget to participate in study visits and matchmaking events (travel vouchers), or to carry out feasibility studies, validation research and implementation studies, etc. for the application of smart systems in the company (innovation vouchers). 

To know more about S3food and the projects supported, please visit: https://s3food.eu/about/