AGRIFORVALOR will close the research and innovation divide by connecting practitioners from agriculture and forestry to research and academia as well as with associations and clusters, bio -industry, policy makers; business support organisations, innovation agencies and technology transfer intermediaries in multi-actor innovation partnership networks. These networks will be managed by three Biomass Innovation Design Hubs, piloted in Andalucia, Hungary and Ireland. In each of these hubs, existing research results and good practices on valorization of biomass sidestreams from agro and forest will be shared and matched with the specific needs and potentials; new grass-roots ideas collected and developed; and dedicated innovation support applied to further deploy selected topics which are dealt with by multi-actor innovation partnership groups.
AGRIFORVALOR thus delivers as mediator and facilitator new commercial opportunities for the agriculture and forest sector in Europe to become active partner in the sidestream biomass value chain.
The project has received funding from the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Union. The international consortium is coordinated by the Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum (Germany).
Project duration: March 2016 – August 2018
Partners: Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Hungary, Germany, Spain
The Hungarian partner of the project is the Bay Zoltán Nonprofit Ltd. for Applied Research.
Project website: www.agriforvalor.eu
Further information:
Kurucz Katalin
telefon: +36-30/412-1370
e-mail: katalin.kurucz@bayzoltan.hu