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Sara BOTTI
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sara.botti@pole-innovalliance.com
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Innov’Alliance is active within the S3 Smart Specialisation Platform,
a network issued from the European Commission.

Innov’Alliance is part of 3 partnerships issued from the S3 platform:

Support the digitization of agro-food industries

(More info at https://www.ss4af.com/)
The food industry recently started to adopt 4.0 technologies. In Europe, the agri-food industry is generally a sector made up of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Those companies do not always have the internal skills to integrate 4.0 technologies (data acquisition, artificial intelligence, robotization, etc.) which are essential for improving their economic performance. The goal of this S3 partnership is to remove barriers in the adoption of those sensors by food companies and thus facilitate the 4.0 transition of the food industry.

Develop new ingredients (bio-based techno functional ingredients for food or non-food industries)
Consumers are turning to sustainable products to protect their health and well-being. Needs for new ingredients and alternative food products are rising. To meet this demand, co-products from the food industry can be used to make functional / nutritional ingredients. The objective of the partnership is to link agrifood and bioeconomy players in order to ease innovation process in the field of ingredients and associated sectors (food or not).

Consumer-centric approach alongside the whole agri-food value chain
The aim of this partnership is to strengthen the involvement of consumers in the innovation process. To establish a healthy and resilient food system, the active participation of consumers is essential to develop products that meet their expectations. This process should be carried out in collaboration with universities, businesses and public institutions. Several challenges to take up: developing economic models in line with consumer needs / values, giving consumers a voice when it comes to product design, open innovation process with involvement of consumer panels.

The plant inter cluster network brings together clusters specialized in vegetal value chains. The aim is to facilitate the construction of European projects, to help cluster members to find skills or missing technologies at European level and to develop partnerships.

To do so, several objectives are set:
Exchanges of best practices in innovation processes,
Support for technological cooperation and partnerships for innovation
Identification of complementary international skills in order to remove technological bottlenecks
International business opportunities (prospection and commercial values).

The global cosmetics cluster is a network gathering 20 clusters from 18 countries. The goal is to ensure international cluster collaboration between cosmetics cluster. This network is a place to gain visibility and to build international and European projects. As a result, those projects will open up opportunities for clusters’ members and their innovation processes.

the missions realized by the Global Cosmetics Cluster:

A network to support international cluster collaboration

• To develop complementarity services between participating cluster
• To encourage the exchange of good practices
• To support the development of a global ecosystem of innovative companies dedicated for cosmetics

A network as a gateway to SMEs internationalization

• To simplify access to international partners
• To ease the matchmaking of skills or technologies between international partners

A network as a place for international cosmetics expertise

• The place for companies to promote at international level their scientific expertise and complementarities
• The place to encourage the development of a global ecosystem of innovating and eco-friendly cosmetics businesses
• The place to promote traditional and existing skills and know-how

Innov’Alliance is partner of enterprise europe network (EEN) to find relevant European partners (commercial, technological, R&D) for Innov’Alliance members. EEN is a network funded by the European Commission.

This network provides companies with an information service, advice on European law and development assistance throughout their innovation and internationalization projects.

In France, Enterprise Europe Network France brings together Chambers of Commerce and Industry, BPI France and regional innovation or internationalization agencies.