Pro-Enrich will develop a flexible biorefinery approach capable of processing a range of agricultural residues (rapeseed meal, olives, tomatoes and citrus fruits) in response to the increasing global demand for alternative sources of protein and phenolic product streams, tailored to the cross sectoral requirements of industry. Pro-Enrich will optimise existing biomass fractionation technologies and validate novel extraction approaches beyond the current state of the art (from TRL2 through to TRL 4/5) to isolate and purify proteins, polyphenols, dietary fibres and pigments. The products being targeted are food ingredients, pet food, cosmetics and adhesives. These will be developed through an iterative process of feedstock mapping, laboratory process development, functionality/performance testing of samples by industry and pilot upscaling. Pro-Enrich gathers the expertise of 16 partners from 7 countries, covering the entire biorefinery value chain and consisting of 8 SMEs, 5 large enterprises, 2 RTOs and 1 university. The project facilitates supply chain building across different sectors, including biomass production and logistics; materials handling and processing, through to end-users. The project will engage and collaborate with key industry stakeholders from farming and biomass supply, processors and brand name owners. Pro-Enrich produces detailed life-cycle, socio-economic and safety assessments to facilitate policy and decision-making by industry and the EU, inform and guide consumer acceptance and assist with regulatory compliance. The outcome of Pro-Enrich will have a huge economical impact on the involved partners especially the industries and generate a large number of new job positions. However, the impact goes beyond the consortium by contributing to the BBI’s strategy for zero-waste processing in the biobased products sector, by addressing technical, commercial and environmental impact across the whole supply chain.

The Danish EEN will provide skilled Innovation Management Capacity Building personnel to provide two services: Key Account Management Services to SMEs in the SME Instrument and Innovation Management Capacity Building services to potential high growth SMEs. A total of minimum 20 service packages will be implemented. Two tools will be used to carry out these tasks - Growthmapper for the KAM role, to provide a brief and simple feedback on the company's management ability and IMP3rove for all IMCB cases, to provide a thorough picture of the innovation management capacity of the SMEs. Companies in the IMBC work will be integrated with the wider Danish and European innovation support eco-system.

On average, each European citizen produces approximately 200 kg of municipal biowaste per year, representing between 118 and 138 million tonnes of biowaste annually arising in the EU. The main municipal biowaste management systems currently existing in Europe represent one-way flow systems in which materials and resources are underused, limiting its potential recovery into high-value products. VALUEWASTE proposes an integrated approach in urban biowaste upcycling for the production of high-value biobased products, developing the first complete solution to fully valorise biowaste that can be replicated across Europe. We will implement three new value chains that will use urban biowaste as raw material for its valorisation into high-value end products in a cascading process, generating economic, social and environmental benefits: food & feed proteins and other ingredients, and biobased fertiliser. VALUEWASTE will be developed at two very different European locations, Murcia (ES) and Kalundborg (DK) with the purpose of finding a solution both technical and socially adapted to the different socio-economic contexts exiting across Europe. Social initiatives will be created to increase consumer awareness and acceptance of urban biowaste-derived products. End-user products applications and new market opportunities will be demonstrated. Outcomes of the project will contribute to new standardisation, and will be useful information for EU policy makers in terms of waste management and in the adoption of new policies.

The objectives of the InnoDK IV project are to: • Provide Key Account Management (KAM) services to Danish businesses, which have been awarded grants under the SME Instrument, Future Emerging Technologies or Fast Track to Innovation programmes • Provide Enhancing Innovation Management Capacity (EIMC) services to SMEs in 2019. Companies will be assessed via the Innovation Health Check tools or other approved tools and depending on results, referred on to relevant organisations in the Danish and European innovation eco-system. In total, under both categories 170 service packages will be carried out. The figure is based on an average of 70 KAM packages coming through EIC programmes, and 100 EIMC cases carried out. If a larger number of grants from EIC are given to Danish participants, the packages will be adjusted accordingly. The Danish EEN has consistently been one of the absolute top performers across the board, with a strong focus on creating impact for client companies. The network ranks overall #1 in number of Partnership Agreements per FTE during the current period, including #1 for PA Research and #1 for PA Technology. Figures from the EASME in 2019 show that the Danish EEN has an average of nearly six times the network average in PA/FTE, while still adhering to the highest standards. Furthermore, the network has an active policy of counting and demonstrating direct impact on behalf of clients and making this information available to national stakeholders every year. This approach will be maintained by the organisations and staff members involved in the Innovation Denmark 2020-2021 project.

The objectives of the Innovation Denmark 2019 project are to: • Provide Key Account Management (KAM) services to Danish businesses, which have been awarded grants under the SME Instrument, Future Emerging Technologies or Fast Track to Innovation programmes • Provide Enhancing Innovation Management Capacity (EIMC) services to SMEs in 2019. Companies will be assessed via the Innovation Health Check tools or other approved tools and depending on results, referred on to relevant organisations in the Danish and European innovation eco-system. In total, under both categories 100 service packages will be carried out. The figure is based on an average of 46 KAM packages coming through EIC programmes, and 44 EIMC cases carried out. If a larger number of grants from EIC are given to Danish participants, the packages will be adjusted accordingly. The figures are based on the experience of the Danish consortium since 2014, which has seen a high and increasing number of cases coming through via the SME Instrument, due to the success Danish companies have in the programme.