OLEAF4VALUE: An Innovative Upcycling Project. Natac is coordinating the OLEAF4VALUE project, a research and innovation action (RIA) funded by the European Union (H2020 -JTI-BBI) focused on tackling the problem generated by olive biomass through the development of a complete olive leaf upcycling system.
Olive LEAF multi-product cascade based biorefinery: from an under-used biomass in the primary sector to tailor-made solutions with high added VALUE for international market applications.
The OLEAF4VALUE consortium is composed of sixteen partners: six Research Technology Organisations (RTOs), seven Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), and three Large Enterprise (Les), from nine different countries throughout Europe (Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and UK).
OLEAF4VALUE is a three-year project that will develop a complete valorisation system for the olive leaf. Globally, 4.5 million tons of olive leaves are produced every year by the olive oil industry, a key industry in southern Europe and along the Mediterranean basin. This biomass represents a challengefor both the farmers and the whole olive oil industry, who need to remove it from the fields and the olive oil mills. Olive leaves may generatecurrently an environmental and economic problem when not collected. OLEAF4VALUE will assemble a competitive consortium of highly experienced partners* devoted to the complete valorisation of this underexploited raw material.
*Partners:
- NATAC BIOTECH SL (NATAC)
- OLEICOLA EL TEJAR NUESTRA SENORA DEARACELI S COOP AND (OET)
- INGECOR AGROFORESTAL SL (IGC)
- INNORENEW COE CENTER ODLICNOSTI ZA RAZISKAVE IN INOVACIJE NA PODROCJU OBNOVLJIVIH MATERIALOV IN ZDRAVEGA BIVANJSKEGA OKOLJA (INNO)
- FUNDACION CENER (CENER)
- INSTITUTO POLITECNICO DE BRAGANCA (IPB)
- BIOCHEMIZE SL (BCZ)
- UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE (UNIFI)
- NIZO FOOD RESEARCH BV (NIZO)
- MARTIN-LUTHER-UNIVERSITAET HALLE-WITTENBERG (MLU)
- HAVFORSKNINGSINSTITUTTET (IMR)
- MIBELLE AG (MBL)
- EURIZON SL (Innovarum)
- ZERO EMISSIONS ENGINEERING BV (Zero-E)
- NNFCC LIMITED (NNFCC)
- MOWI FEED AS (MOWI)
