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Portugal 

AVIPE’s core business is on grapevine consultancy. It supports about 4000Ha from 250 farmers and its mains activities are related to integrated pest management, irrigation, fertilizations, training vineyards and investment project implementation. Besides these activities, AVIPE has a major role in investment projects specially in vineyards plantations, irrigation plans and acquisition of machinery and other equipment. AVIPE also has an important role in farmers education specially in pesticides application and tractor driving. 

 Portugal

A4F - Algafuel, SA incorporates the knowledge and experience of more than 20 years in the field of industrial microalgae biotechnologies. It is a bioengineering company which Designs, Builds, Operates and Transfers (DBOT) microalgae industrial production and processing plants worldwide.   

 Spain

LEITAT is a non-profit private technological center located in Terrassa, Spain with more than 110 years of experience in R&D, technology transfer and industrial innovation services. The centers’ expertise has diversified rapidly over the last decades bringing value to a wide range of industries and sectors through dedicated R&D and tech transfer services. Our mission is to bring intellectual, economic and social value to our company, clients, collaborating entities and to the society by transforming technological and scientific challenges into new breakthroughs and innovations. 

 Ireland
 

INLECOM are a European SME with offices and consultants in Brussels, Ireland, London, Spain and Greece. INLECOM helps the REDWine project embed commercial thinking to support its innovation journey from research to revenue. Some of INLECOM core competencies are: New Business Models Design, Innovation Management & Patent Filings, Commercialisation, Market Analyses, Feasibility Studies, Business & Go-To-Market Plans.

Spain

LIPOTEC SAU, a LUBRIZOL company is an entity dedicated to the research, development and commercialization of novel cosmetic active ingredients, based in Barcelona area. It has a strong international presence, with subsidiaries in the USA, Australia and Japan, and commercial offices in France, Italy and Singapore, which allow the company to commercialize its products in more than 45 countries. The capabilities of LIPOTEC merged with LUBRIZOL expertise, allow the company to bring to the market all the categories of skin care ingredients (actives, emollients, emulsifiers, rheology modifiers,…), testing their adaptation to the multiple formulation needs, and creating full finished formulation that can be brought to the end consumers by the brands.

France

ALGAMA is a PME based in France dedicated to the development of food premix ingredients and food products made out of microalgae.

The Netherlands

PERVATECH produces cutting edge membranes, membrane modules and separation systems for pervaporation and vapor permeation applications. The company’s core activities are the production, development and marketing & sales of ceramic membranes for both hydrophilic and organophilic separation processes. Scientific co-operation with leading Universities and Institutions, both nationally and abroad secures todays and tomorrows ceramic membranes with superior characteristics.

France

COLDEP is a young SME offering an innovative and economical water treatment process: the vacuum airlift (VAL). This multifunctional patented process allows to circulate water, exchange gases and extract particulate with high efficiency and low energy. Applications are Oil&Gas, desalination, aquaculture, microalgae production and harvesting.

Germany

Novis is private SME, producing biobased technology solutions. Originally Novis has focused on building biogas plants for unused substrates in different countries worldwide. Within that field, it was necessary to develop various solutions for gas treatment, gas storage and CO2 extraction. Further to this and based on the plant development, Novis has started biobased research, to develop market solutions for the biobased industries. Some of the prominent solutions: cleaning incineration slag from heavy metals to enable the use for concrete, utilization of cocoa bean shells for food-graded cocoa powder or utilization of spent mushroom compost for energy and raw materials.

Portugal

IPS (Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Portugal) is a public institution of higher education, which employs approximately 800 personnel and has app. 7500 students. IPS is situated in the Greater Lisbon Metropolitan Area, region of Setúbal.

Spain

IDENER Research & Development is the R&D division of the company IDENER, which will centralise the research activities of the company. IDENER R&D investigates in the multidisciplinary field of Computational Science and its application to the optimization of systems and processes in key areas: Industrial Technologies; ICTs; Biotechnology; Energy; and Resource and Raw Materials Efficiency.

Portugal

Laboratório Nacional de Energia e Geologia, I.P (LNEG), the Portuguese National Laboratory of Energy and Geology, is a State Laboratory attached to the Ministry of Environment and Climate Action, which carries out advanced R&D work. Its mission is to promote technological innovation in the fields of energy and geology focused on science and technology, with the overriding objective of raising company competitiveness within a framework of sustainable economic progress.