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In Europe, policy shift towards sustainability has created demand for alternative proteins in foods (i.e., plant-based and food-technology alternatives to animal protein). What about consumers, do they trust in the safety of novel food products including alternative protein ingredients? VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. and Finnish Food Authority organized on 30.11.2022 in Espoo, …

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On Thursday, 10 November 2022, Justine Vanhalst, project manager at Matís (Iceland), involved in dissemination management in the NextGenProteins project and Jacqueline Lyons, project manager at University College Cork (Ireland) and Smart Protein Project Manager, hosted a one and a half hour session at the Food4Climate Pavilion at COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt). The …

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NextGenProteins aims to optimise and validate, in an industrially relevant environment, the production of proteins from microalgae, single cells and insects and demonstrate their suitability as alternative sustainable sources in food and feed value chains. In order to better align both the processes and the products with the values, needs and expectations of society, NextGenProteins …

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On 22nd September2022, NextGenProteins, ProFuture, Smart Protein and Susinchain – four EU H2020 funded projects working on alternative proteins, hosted the fourth collaborative Horizon4Proteins webinar on Sustainability of alternative proteins. This highly informative webinar, attended by 55 participants, shared insights into Optimization of environmental impact and Circular Economy perspective. Massimo Castellari, senior researcher at IRTA …

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Action week from September 20th to 23rd attracts with exciting keynote speeches and tastings on the subject of nutrition. The Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences and the ttz Bremerhaven invite you to a varied program in the THP house of the university (Theodor-Heuss-Platz 1 in Bremerhaven) as part of the European Sustainability Week. Under the …

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The World´s Poultry Congress will be held from the 7-11 of August 2022 in Paris, France.NexGenProteins´ project partner, UNIBO, will present their results at the Congress in the following two errands: Growth performance response of broiler chickens fed diets containing dehydrated microalgae meal up to 22 days of age in partial substitution of soybean meal.Poster …

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The Insects to Feed the World Conference was held in Québec City from 12th to 16th of June 2022. Côme GUIDOU, Product and quality manager at NEXTGENPROTEINS’ partner, MUTATEC, gave a lecture titled “Partially defatted Black Soldier Fly meal inclusion in Pacific White Shrimps diets: effects on growth performances” at the event. In her presentation …

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The Icelandic Innovation week took place this May and NextGen Proteins representatives gave presentations on two occasions during the week. The first presentation was held by the NextGen Proteins project coordinator, Birgir Örn Smárason as a part of the European Union session entitled EU funding programmes: Icelandic success stories. There attendees had the opportunity to …

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