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VIDA Toolbox The project partners have co-created the VIDA Toolbox that aims at stimulating cross-fertilisation and use of key enabling technologies (KET) between SMEs coming from the food, energy and water sectors. The VIDA Toolbox is composed of cross-regional and regional services (i.e. VIDA Tools) that can be implemented either by one or more VIDA

VIDA Alumni In a three-year-long journey, the project partners and SMEs have co-created the Alumni Network as a strategic tool to maintain and exploit project actions and results developed through the implementation of the VIDA Nexus (collaboration and exchange between the food, energy and water sectors and use of key enabling technologies (KET)). VIDA Alumni

Dibu2pia VIDEO VIDA Final Event from Blanca Tulleuda on Vimeo. Join us at the VIDA Final Event on 18 May and 19 May 2021 VIDA Final Event is organised to outline and share its main contributions to the development of new and sustainable food value chains, achieved with the support of many European stakeholders who

On 29 April 2021, from 10h00-12h00 CEST, H2020 VIDA in collaboration with Dirk Lehmann organises The Pitch Training workshop aimed at SMEs on how to create their winning pitches. Dirk Lehmann is the creator of the concept, with over ten years of professional experience in corporate roles and the start-up ecosystem. The hands-on interactive process

VIDA – Value-added Innovation in fooD chAins aims to drive Europe’s global competitiveness and economic development by bringing together a food-energy-water nexus in food chains through VIDA Voucher Scheme. Food production and processing crucially depend on energy and water, which provide the necessary inputs, as well as Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) to process raw materials

The project announced the results of the Open Call applications – 9 projects will be funded. The VIDA consortium is pleased to announce that VIDA Extraordinary Call for Innovation Support Booster applications has been a huge success. In total, 47 applications were received up to the cut-off date – 10th August 2020. Applications were received

VIDA is a 36 months European project (2018-2021) funded by the INNOSUP Call of HORIZON 2020 to support the innovation potential of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) working across European food chains interested in improving the use and efficiency of water, food, energy and key enabling technologies (KET). VIDA aims to accelerate the implementation of

On 22 June, ZINNAE had an opportunity to showcase VIDA project and its overall approach to supporting the European SMEs in an online webinar Towards a Green and Collaborative European Recovery promoted by European Clusters Alliance. VIDA partner indicated the success of voucher-based funding scheme and other types of services, for the purpose of cross-sectoral

The VIDA project aims to accelerate the implementation of new solutions (preferably key enabling technologies - KET) in the food sector which improve the usage of water and energy with the ambition to reduce losses and consumption. VIDA has three different types of funding vouchers to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) seeking new resource-efficient

Luca Donelli, President of the Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster – VIDA partner, participated as a speaker at the Circular Economy Workshop, which took place on June 12th, 2020. The Workshop was an Italian-Slovenian joint initiative and it was organised by Centrocot Spa, the Industrial Union of the province of Varese, SRIP-Circular Economy and the Chamber

VIDA team at the Consortium Meeting, in Prague (February 2020) VIDA aims to accelerate the implementation of new solutions in the food sector which can improve the usage of water and energy with the ambition to reduce losses and consumption. VIDA has  three different types of funding vouchers  to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

The VIDA Awards Ceremony Event 2020 will be hosted by the local VIDA partner Nanoprogress. The event will take place in CzechInvest - Agentura pro podporu podnikání a investic (Prague) on 6th of February 2020. The ceremony will be organised in order to present, award and contract the SMEs that have proposed new and highly innovative

VIDA has awarded 8 Demonstration Voucher projects in the First Open Call that was opened between February 1st and April 30th, 2019. During the VIDA Webinars we introduced some of the success stories whose presentations you can find below. Thus, some of the VIDA Beneficiaries have prepared the VIDA Beneficiary Snapshots also presented below. We

VIDA – Value added Innovation in fooD chAins aims to boost the innovation in the agro-food value chains through innovative solutions that enhance the water-energy efficiency using Key Enabling Technologies (KETs). Read more. VIDA provides three different funding schemes for the SMEs that aims to collaborate in the development of technological solutions for resources efficiency.

The Second Call for the VIDA Demonstration Voucher has opened August 1st, 2019. VIDA Demonstration Voucher (DV) provides financial support to small and medium-sized enterprizes (SME) in the food, water, energy or KET-sector to fund the demonstration of innovative solutions towards resource efficient food processing. The DV are meant to address one common challenge of minimizing resource consumption in the industrial food chain. The key

VIDA international Brokerage Event 2019 will be hosted by VIDA partner and will take place at the Via Chiaravalle 8 – Sala Falck, in Milan on September 12th, between 9.15 and 16.00. VIDA - Value-added Innovation in fooD chAins aims to drive Europe’s global competitiveness and economic development by bringing together a food-energy-water nexus in

Representatives of awarded projects together with Francisca Medina (CEW) and Milena Stoyanova-Colas (EASME).   From February 1st 2019 until January 3rd 2020 the Value-added Innovation in fooD chain – VIDA project is actively promoting a funding opportunity for the European clusters and SMEs interested in providing innovative technological solutions for agri-food value chain and resource efficiency uptake, such as

VIDA would like to invite you to joining VIDA Awards Ceremony that will be hosted by VIDA partner CLEAN and will take place at the Copenhagen City Hall on the 10th of July, 2019, between 13.00 and 17.00. The ceremony is organised in order to present, award and contract the projects that have developed new and highly innovative cross-sectoral

Webinar: Sustainable farming — waste management and energy efficiency | JULY 2 | 10.00 – 11.00 (CET) Co-facilitated by partners: Lombardy Energy Cleantech Cluster (LE2C) and ZINNAE. Speaker SME: Costantino Papadakis from KAPA engineering. VIDA – Value added Innovation in fooD chAins, aims to accelerate the implementation of new solutions in the food sector which improve

VIDA aims to accelerate the implementation of new solutions (preferably key enabling technologies) in the food sector which improve the usage of water and energy with the ambition to reduce losses and consumption. VIDA has three different types of funding vouchers to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) seeking new resource efficient solutions. The Innovation

VIDA Challenges enlisted below present the examples and not an exhaustive list. Some additional resource efficiency challenges in the agrifood sector may be also considered eligible. For more information, you can check VIDA Terms and Conditions and if in any doubt, do contact us. Food Sector Resource efficiency challenges Fish Farming Decontamination, closingloops Sustainable Farming