Projects
CIRCALGAE (HEU; 2022-2026)
CIRCular valorisation of industrial ALGAE waste streams into high-value products to foster future sustainable blue biorefineries in Europe.
Algae biomass is a treasure in the water, while capturing CO2 vast amounts of biomass are generated. However, this treasure is not being used to the fullest. The EU-funded CIRCALGAE project aims to develop a ground-breaking exploitation system where the algae industrial waste streams will be further valorised, in a more sustainable and circular approach. Through a set of simple, water-based technologies, the project focuses on introducing an integrated biorefinery concept and delivering novel macro- and microalgae ingredients to the food, feed and cosmetic sector. Bringing together a team of key algae cross-sectoral actors, CIRCALGAE aspires to revolutionise the blue bioeconomy and scale up the sustainable use of living aquatic resources.
The project started on October 2022, it will last 4 years and gathers 21 partners from 11 different European countries. Dr. Amparo Jiménez Quero (KTH) is the project coordinator.
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s HORIZON EUROPE research and innovation programme under Grant agreement ID: 101060607
SISTERS (H2020; 2021-2026)
KTH is taking part in the EU funded Horizon 2020 project SISTERS. SISTERS aims to reduce food loss and food waste in the main different stages of the Food Value Chain in Europe through innovations targeted to each link of the value chain: new tools to primary producers for promoting direct and Short Chain sales (farmers); new technological innovations in packaging for processors and retailers; and awareness campaigns for retailers and consumers on food loss and food waste.
With the support of the European Commission, SISTERS will be a key EU project addressing the problem in a holistic way, reducing FLW by 27.4% and CO2 emissions by around 20% in the case studies. Our role within the project will be to extract valuable compounds from food lost (with antioxidant, antimicrobial and/or material properties) to be add in the food packaging improving sustainabilty and circularity in the food value chain.
The project started on November 2021, it will last 4.5 years and gathers 18 partners from 8 different European countries:
AITIIP Centro Tecnológico (ES)-project coordinator, Agence BM-services (FR), Riberebro Integral S.A. (ES), PROEXPORT (ES), Munster Technological University (IE), Rebus Labs AG (CH), CARBIOLICE (FR), BIO-MI d.o.o (HR), ITC Packaging s.l. (ES), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (SE), Natureplast SAS (FR), EROSKI (ES), Fondazione Edmund Mach (IT), Laboratori Archa s.r.l. (IT), Enco Consulting s.r.l. (IT), INNOVARUM (ES), Safe Food Advocacy Europe A.S.B.L. (BE) and GAIA BioMaterials (SE).
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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101037796
MYCOMYM (2023-2027)
“MYcelium based COMposite and mycozYMes production for upgraded lignocellulose material”. I am the PI for this 4 years FORMAS (Swedish research council for sustainable development) early career researcher project granted with 4.000.000SEK. I will be working on the production of a novel sustainable biomaterial and enzymes with industrial interest in collaboration with Prof. Kriistina Oksman (Luleå Technical University) and Prof. Lisbeth Olsson (Chalmers University of Technology).
MYCOSITE (2023-2025)
“Mycelium based material, towards a truly sustainable biomaterial". I am the PI of this project funded by the Carl Tryggers Stiftelse (Swedish research Foundation) with 666.600SEK for a postdoctoral fellow for 2 years. The concept is to deeply understand the insight of fungal based materials for a future sustainable use in industrial scale.
