Project: Upcycling side streams for sustainable and healthy ingredients and food concepts
| Acronym | Up4Food |
| Project Topic | Up4Food will build knowledge to improve food resource utilization by using a system approach to upcycle processing side-streams from three selected value chains in Europe (potatoes, oil seeds and pelagic fish). The project consortium comprises researchers with different expertise from 5 countries and will co-create with stakeholders in the food system and citizens to design new value chains and food concepts and make toolboxes on technological solutions, sustainability and life cycle assessments fit for upcycling of side-streams and co-creation methodology. Up4Food will use green novel technologies to extract and refine nutritive and functional ingredients from the side-streams and investigate technological, nutritional and safety aspects of implementing these ingredients into different food concepts. Up4Food will gain increased insight on barriers and possibilities and reflectively increase the applicability of novel ingredients in the food industry. Through engagement of end users Up4Food will obtain consumer insight on perceptions and acceptability. All ingredients and food concepts will be developed with emphasis on sustainability aspects and evaluated by life cycle assessments and material flow analyses. Further, this building of knowledge needs an innovative approach using innovation methodology and visualization tools in the multi-actor co-creation and communication. Up4Food aims to enable new opportunities for food actors for further development of a wider range of healthy and sustainable food products and concepts in the European market and positively impact health of European citizens. Ultimately, Up4Food will contributing to equip food actors and citizens the necessary tools and attitudes to meet the necessary dietary shift. |
| Network | JPI HDHL |
| Call | FOODRETEC |
Project partner
| Number | Name | Role | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Coordinator | Norway |
| 2 | SINTEF Ocean AS | Partner | Norway |
| 3 | Teagasc Food Research Centre | Partner | Ireland |
| 4 | The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) | Partner | France |
| 5 | National R&D Institute for Food Bioresources - IBA Bucharet | Partner | Romania |
| 6 | National Marine Fisheries Research Institute | Partner | Poland |