Bio-based & agrifood

Driving innovation towards a more sustainable and resilient future in the bio-based and agrifood industry

Your challenges

Organisations in the agri-food and bio-based sectors face increasingly complex challenges that demand strategic solutions:

  • Meet Sustainability:Achieving sustainability while preserving our planet’s natural resources, ensuring food security, and promoting circularity. This involves reducing carbon footprint, minimising waste, and optimising the use of natural resources like water, soil, and biodiversity. Success requires significant investment in sustainable practices and technologies.
  • Supply Chain Resilience: Building robust, transparent and efficient supply chains that withstand disruptions caused by climate change, geopolitical instability, and evolving trade policies. Achieving stability and efficiency requires innovative and collaborative approaches.
  • Regulatory Compliance: Effectively navigating the complexity of diverse, stringent and rapidly evolving regulatory landscape, including food safety standards, certification schemes, and environmental regulations. Implementing robust compliance frameworks and continuous monitoring are necessary.
  • Market Dynamics: Staying competitive by adapting to consumer preferences and rapidly changing market demands. Market research and establishing flexible production processes can help to succeed in a competitive landscape and safeguarding market uptake.
  • Innovation Barriers:Bringing the gap between lab-scale innovations to upscaled industrial production while ensuring cost efficiency and product quality. Overcoming the high R&D costs and long development timelines. Public funding and private investment are crucial for accelerating innovation and driving future growth.

How are these complexities impacting your organization?

PNO Consultants offer strategic guidance and innovative solutions to help you face these challenges, securing the resources and partnerships needed to drive your growth and sustainability.

Our pathways to success:

  • Funding: Securing and leveraging public and private funding for research, development, and infrastructure.
  • Innovation: Strategic R&D tactics and plans for sustainable approaches, advanced technologies, and cutting-edge bio-based products.
  • Collaboration: Partnering with relevant actors and industry peers to share knowledge, innovation strategies and resource pooling.
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Our promises

Relevant services for you

Building on our in-depth knowledge of national funding and tax incentives, our sector specialists provide a broad range of services tailored to the specific needs and opportunities within the Biobased & Agrifood industry:

  • EU funding support

    EU funding support

    EU grants do more than fund your project. They connect you to Europe’s innovation network and boost your competitive edge. With our deep program knowledge and cross-sector experience, we help you seize opportunities through high-quality proposals and strong partnerships.

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    EU funding support
  • Linking to R&D projects

    Linking to R&D projects

    Identify and join promising collaborative R&D projects and initiatives with key players across Europe to boost your innovation efforts and funding potential.

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    Linking to R&D projects
  • IT Tools for data-driven insights in innovation

    IT Tools for data-driven insights in innovation

    R&D intensive organisations often struggle to stay ahead in fast-changing innovation landscapes. Our data-driven IT-tools help you make smarter decisions by analysing millions of patents, funded projects, and scientific articles – so you can act on real insights, not assumptions.

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    IT Tools for data-driven insights in innovation

High-impact EU proposals & consortia with proven success and impact.

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Join promising collaborative R&D projects in Europe

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Smart IT tools for trends, benchmarking & partner scouting

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Projects in Biobased & agrifood

TOBEREAL >

TOBEREAL stimulates the bioeconomy in Europe by helping promising biobased projects grow into flagship initiatives, particularly in regions where the sector is still emerging. The project will provide support in the areas of technology, business operations, regulation, and social innovation for a period of five years. As project coordinator, PNO Innovation leads the selection and support process, provides funding advice, and monitors progress to ensure a real impact across the EU.

ForestNavigator >

ForestNavigator helps shape smarter forest policies to combat climate change and protect biodiversity across Europe. By mapping policies and climate impacts, government agencies are guided towards sustainable forest use and bioeconomic strategies. As a project partner, PNO Innovation supports coordination, stakeholder engagement, and communication with the aim of achieving real impact and large-scale application of the project results.

LIFE MEAT4ALL >

The LIFE MEAT4ALL project is building Europe's first factory for cultured beef, reducing emissions, water consumption, and land impact. Led by BioTech Foods, the project will produce 1,000 tons of cultured meat annually, demonstrating that large-scale production of lab-grown meat is possible. The project will optimize production processes and demonstrate the scalability of the cultivated meat production, moving from pilot to industrial scale.

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