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UpWaste
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The UpWaste project concentrates on the development of a flexible and modular system for the conversion of agricultural residues into heterotrophic microalgal (Galdieria sulphuraria) and insect (Hermetia illucens) biomass. It will rely on metabolic modelling with experimental calibration at lab and pilot industrial scales to create an industrial blueprint of the UpWaste modular biorefinery system application. Such a system will create new market opportunities and determine the feasibility of new products and services generated through integrated food and non-food systems.
The UpWaste system, based on selected species, converts residues, which are diverse and difficult to characterize (e.g. manure, food waste, straw, and hull), into high-quality biomass with defined composition. Following cascading, principles produced biomass will serve as a substrate for the development of various products ranging from food to chemicals by relevant industries (creation of innovation potential for the associated industrial stakeholders). Focus is further on detection and avoidance of biological contaminations for assuring the safety of produced biomass and even identifying the potential for the application as food and feed. |
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The UpWaste project lasts for 36 months and is a collaboration of 6 different European partners. The project is led by the German Institute of Food Technology (DIL) and following partners are involved: Institute for Food and Environmental Research (ILU, Germany), University of Warmia and Mazury (Poland), Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Thomas More Kempen and KU Leuven.
UpWaste is funded within the FACCE SURPLUS (Sustainable and Resilient agriculture for food and non-food systems) collaboration, which is committed to improve collaboration across the European Research Area in the range of diverse, but integrated, food and non-food biomass production and transformation systems, including biorefining. FACCE SURPLUS is an ERA-NET cofund (part of the EU Horizon 2020 programme) between the European Commission and a partnership of 15 countries in the frame of the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI). For Thomas More, Vlaio-LA is the national funding agency within this ERA-NET cofund.
UpWaste is funded within the FACCE SURPLUS (Sustainable and Resilient agriculture for food and non-food systems) collaboration, which is committed to improve collaboration across the European Research Area in the range of diverse, but integrated, food and non-food biomass production and transformation systems, including biorefining. FACCE SURPLUS is an ERA-NET cofund (part of the EU Horizon 2020 programme) between the European Commission and a partnership of 15 countries in the frame of the Joint Programming Initiative on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change (FACCE-JPI). For Thomas More, Vlaio-LA is the national funding agency within this ERA-NET cofund.