InnovPlantProtect is participating in three ideas that applied to the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR) measure “Mobilizing Agendas for Business Innovation - Proposals for the Economy of the Future”, which have been selected to move on to phase two of the process: InsectERA, the Blue Bioeconomy Pact and OesteFruta 4.0.
OesteFruta 4.0 is a mobilizing agenda for fruit growing in the West. The aim is to provide the region and the sector with tools that will enable them to face current and future challenges, with a focus on the Rocha pear and the Alcobaça apple. The consortium is led by Atlantic Portuguese Apple - Clube da Maçã and the idea, presented on Friday in Leixões by Armando Torres Paulo, corresponds to a total investment of €97 million.
The public session to present the Mobilizing Agendas took place on December 2nd and 3rd at the Port of Leixões Cruise Terminal. At the day 3 Daniel Murta, CEO of Ingredient Odyssey, and Tiago Pitta e Cunha, representing Inovamar, which is leading the Blue Bioeconomy Pact. This idea, which corresponds to a total investment of €220 million, aims to reindustrialize the blue bioeconomy by creating new economic models based on the use of marine bio-resources, as well as creating the first blue bioeconomy in the world. hub european blue bioeconomy.
The InsectERA agenda, which involves a total investment of €57 million, aims to apply circular economy concepts to the insect industry. The idea is to return by-products from the agro-industry, and some agricultural and urban waste, to the value chain in the form of nutritional solutions for people, animals and plants, as well as new industrial solutions, from cosmetics to bioplastics.
The information is public and can be consulted on the from IAPMEI.
InsectERA 
Blue Bioeconomy Pact 
WestFruit 4.0
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