HORIZON-CL6-2027-02-FARM2FORK-05

Consorzio Italbiotec is the Italian leading non-profit organisation in the biotechnology sector, bringing together academic and industrial excellence in Life Sciences, Agrofood and Bioeconomy.

For HORIZON-CL6-2027-02-FARM2FORK-05, we are interested in joining a consortium developing and demonstrating diversified cropping systems and innovative value chains able to increase farmers’ profitability, resilience and environmental sustainability.

Within the project, Italbiotec can directly contribute to the techno-economic, environmental and social assessment of the proposed solutions, including TEA, LCA and S-LCA, as well as to the design and validation of circular value chains and business models for the valorisation of crops, agricultural residues and crop co-products into higher-value products. We can assess alternative processing and scale-up scenarios, quantify production costs and value-chain economics, identify market opportunities and support exploitation, IP and market-entry strategies.

Thanks to our network across biotechnology, agrofood and the bioeconomy, we can also contribute to multi-actor engagement, knowledge transfer and coordination between research organisations, technology providers, SMEs and industrial end-users. Italbiotec has experience in coordinating EU-funded projects and can support both technical work packages and project-level integration.

We are looking for a consortium involving farmers and farming organisations, crop and seed specialists, agrofood companies, technology providers and research organisations developing innovative diversified cropping systems. We are particularly interested in partners able to provide real agricultural case studies and demonstration sites, crop and co-product streams for valorisation, agronomic data and technologies that can be validated at pilot or demonstration scale.

Our objective is to help connect crop diversification with economically viable downstream value chains, demonstrating not only environmental benefits but also measurable value creation and increased profitability for farmers.