Ingredients for
the Bioeconomy
The Smart Specialisation Partnership powering circular
bio-based ingredients for sustainable food systems
About I4BE
The S3P partnership Ingredients for a Circular Economy has officially been renamed Ingredients for the Bioeconomy, reflecting the growing strategic importance of the bioeconomy in Europe and the expanded scope of the partnership.
Ingredients for the Bioeconomy (I4BE) is an European agri-food partnership of clusters, RTOs and regional authorities who are specialised in the agri-food sector. With a keen focus on techno-functional ingredients, sourced either from bio-based raw materials or through the valorization of side streams, we’re dedicated to advancing innovation in agri-food. Moreover, our partnership aims to assist agri-food companies in exploring alternative applications for their co-products, benefiting both the food processing industry and non-food sectors.
I4BE at a glance :
- 8 countries, 15 regions, 26 NUTS2 regions
- 15 partners, including 11 clusters, 2 RTOs and 2 regional authorities
- 3 granted EU projects
I4BE, who and where are the partners behind this network ?
Biomass, side-streams, ingredients, an emerging universe with an amazing innovation & sustainability potential !
I4BE is about circular food ingredients, but tell me more about the what, the why and the for whom ?
I4BE is an engine to initiate, co-create & implement European-funded innovation projects. Join this movement!
Partners
I4BE is anchored on Agri-Food Innovation Clusters, which constitute the core of the partnership
Other relevant stakeholders and Research & Innovation intermediaries are enriching the partnership with their expertise, infrastructure and representativity (Research & Technology organizations – RTOs, Regional Authorities, Regional Innovation Agencies, etc).
The I4BE partnership currently represents 8 Member States, 15 regions and 26 NUTS2 European regions.
Value chains
From biomass to high-value nutritional & functional bio-compounds & ingredients: valorising side-streams is a sustainable and tech-based challenge, generatic economic values
I4BE focused on the generation of nutritional and functional ingredients, sourced from bio-based products & crops produced out of agriculture, livestock, forestry, weeds & herbs, fruits & legumes, aquatic biotopes, and microbiological ecosystems.
Agricultural & food organic waste constitutes another significant portion of biodegradable material for transformation into bio-based products.
New innovative & circular value-chains emerge from the transformation of bio-based products & crops, side-streams, aquatic biomass and microbial strains into bio-active-compounds & ingredients (nutritional & functional), and finally finished b2c and b2b food & non-food products.
Projects
The I4BE Partnership is active on the EU scene with flagship EU-funded projects dedicated to promising approach to circular ingredients
B-Resilient
Project set 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.
Biotech4Food
How biotechnology can improve the agri-food systems as it powered life sciences & health sectors! This is the bet of this EU-funded project, coordinated by Wagralim, together with the I4BE community and other relevant stakeholders, including a cohort of 15 SMEs.
GRAPPA
Green Resilient Approaches to anchor European food-producing and processing SMEs into global value chains through connecting place-based biomass system innovation actors. Funding, training, networking, and market access — designed to help you develop upcycled products from your side-streams
