Open topic: Innovating for on-farm post-harvest operations, storage and transformation of crops into food and non-food products
Project Proposal
Seeking EU based farm that produces broad beans and beats, to participate in the HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-02-two-stage project
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We are building a strong consortium to address the flagship HORIZON-CL6-2025-02-FARM2FORK-02-two-stage, a €12M initiative to fund 2 projects (€6M each) in testing, developing and piloting innovative solutions to support farmers to improve their position in the value chains, profit from leveraging the use of their agricultural produce and improve financial viabilities The deadline for first stage of this time-sensitive opportunity is 04 September 2025.
Our project, polymerfibre2table, aims to establish the whole value-chain from farmers by-product (broad bean and beats' leaves) that are being optimised via developed technology to polymer fibre. We plan to scale-up the production through the engineering university from the farm partners material (the leaves they would otherwise discard) then organise an Open call attracting consortia of tech developers and farms to include the product in their already existing and NEW products. The polymer in question has 60% of protein and could be included in products as a protein powder, for example.
We have already established a strong foundational consortium, including University in Ireland and University in Zagreb, and we are searching for a big farm, producing broad beans and beats in big volumes, to provide the core material for the scale-up phase (broad beans and beats leaves).
If your organization/farm has the expertise and ambition to contribute to this mission please contact me at [email protected]