Name:
PRODUCTION OF HEALTHY MICROALGAE BIOCOMPOSITES WITH FOOD APPLICATIONS – AlgaeForHealthyWorld (A4HW)

Developed by:
University of Cadiz/ CSIC / “Chef del Mar” Gastronomic Research Laboratory

Country(ies) involved:
Spain

Funding sources:
National

General idea:
Algae For Healthy World, “A4HW” seeks to produce high value-added food products, which serve as functional foods useful in the culinary, food and industrial sectors. This project is in line with the “Blue Growth” policy of the EU’s H2020 programme, which aims to create sustainable growth in the marine and maritime economy, inter alia to create measures to develop technologies that respect the environment, promote job creation or develop measures to support small and medium-sized enterprises, all referred to as a general objective of this project. In this European context, it highlights the great potential of products derived from microalgae, but also the limited existing market niche and production problems. Therefore, this project aims at solving the problems in both areas, improving the production processes and opening new markets in the field of food as new culinary ingredients, taking into account the environmental friendliness of the technologies employed.

Description:
The aim of the Algae for Healthy World (A4HW) project is to develop the biotechnological tools necessary to improve and optimise the production of biomass, as well as to increase the concentration of high added value biocomposites for the human food sector (mainly pigments-antioxidants) from different microalgae, focusing its developments on different strains of Spirulina, Nannochloropsis gaditana and Pyrocistis. The results of the project will be validated in the microalgae pilot plant in order to demonstrate the uses of microalgae and their extracts of interest in the food sector

TRL:
4. Technology validated in lab

Sources:
Literature review: https://www.aponiente.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/proyecto-A4HW.pdf / http://cib.csic.es/project/production-healthy-biocompounds-microalgae-food-applications-algaeforhealthyworld-a4hw