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The Circularis BioCluster is the clustering initiative of four European projects: VALORISH and its brother project, ONE EARTH (Project ID: 101135559, coordinated by the University of Bologna), PROMISEANG (Project ID: 101112378, Coordinated by the University of Vigo) and MARMADE (Project ID: 101213231, Coordinated by the University of Camerino).
The Horizon Europe topics under which the cluster members are funded are:
The Circularis BioCluster is a valuable vehicle that will maximise the reach of its projects by fostering technical collaboration and enhancing the communication strategies of its members during the length of each project. The areas of focus for this cluster are the topics covered by the projects, namely:
Circular valorisation of animal by-products for sustainable waste management.
Production of high-value bioproducts with enhanced functionality.
Scaling up biorefinery processes for industrial implementation.
Advanced computational modeling for process optimization.
Comprehensive assessment of economic, social, and environmental impacts.
Market adoption for nutraceuticals, cosmetics, fertilisers, and aquaculture feed products.
The Circularis BioCluster will undertake the following activities to foster collaboration and innovation:
MARMADE aims to develop sustainable, high-value bio-based food and feed ingredients from marine biomass, focusing on underutilised crustacean residues (shrimp shells and blue crabs) and seaweed. The project seeks to establish efficient and scalable biorefinery processes to extract a wide range of functional ingredients and to develop innovative food and feed prototypes with enhanced nutritional, functional, and sensory properties.
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The project’s objective is to develop novel alternative proteins from marine underexploited sources (marine invertebrate and macroalgae discards and industrial biowastes) through biomass fermentation (solid-state and submerge processes), generating new microbial protein biomass, meeting market requirements for food, feed, and non-food (biomedicine, pharma and cosmetic) bio-based applications. A technically and economically viable biorefinery for microbial-based protein production will be demonstrated during the project, enabling higher production yields, reduced production periods, minimized environmental impacts, diminish the imports, and reduced production costs for proteins.
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The project aims to develop and evaluate innovative bio-based solutions for producing nutraceuticals, cosmetics, bio-adhesives, fertilizers, and aquaculture feed by leveraging residual animal biomass. ONE EARTH seeks to establish integrated circular value chains by valorising marine biomass for terrestrial applications and repurposing terrestrial biomass for aquaculture, fostering a sustainable and self-reinforcing carbon cycle.
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