Abstract
CARINA is built on a multi-actor consortium and participative decision-making process through mutual learning, transparent communication, and inclusive multi-perspectives and transdisciplinary engagement. From the proposal clearly emerges the importance of social innovation as the nerve center for the evolution of the whole project. Nine Lighthouses, 5 Living Labs, and 9 Policy Innovation Labs will be established across Europe playing a leading role in the co-creation of CARINA innovation actions. CARINA focuses on new sustainable and diversified farming systems including 2 new oilseed crops, carinata and camelina, able to provide multiple low iLUC feedstocks for the bio-based economy. We firmly believe that a participatory approach is necessary for successfully scaling-up innovative farming systems. Engaging farmers and other stakeholders in jointly developing solutions under specific environmental, technical, and social conditions has been highly considered in CARINA. We estimate about 3M farmers being potentially reached by CARINA thanks to the direct cooperation with its partners. To find a broad consensus by primary producers, a new crop should enable to promote and harness biodiversity, be easy-to-grow, and technically feasible within current cropping systems. Carinata and camelina fully meet these requirements, able to successfully grow almost everywhere in Europe and in northern Africa. Carinata and camelina provide high quality oils that will be transformed into innovative bio-based products (bioherbicides, bioplastics). The co-product from oil extraction is a protein-rich cake, which will be valorized as animal feed, and in a multitude of high added-value products, exploiting the mucilage and glucosinolates contained within. CARINA capitalizes on a highly experienced team of 20 partners, +6 affiliated entities, from 13 EU and Associated Countries (Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Greece, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Poland, UK, Serbia, Tunisia, Morocco, Switzerland).
Project details
Unibo Team Leader: Andrea Monti
Unibo involved Department/s:
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Agro-Alimentari
Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche
Coordinator:
ALMA MATER STUDIORUM - Università di Bologna(Italy)
Other Participants:
Institut National De La Recherche Agronomique De Tunisie-Inrat
(Tunisia)
UNIWERSYTET PRZYRODNICZY W POZNANIU*-Poznan University of Life Science
(Poland)
Agraren Universitet - Plovdiv
Flanat Research Italia SRL
(Italy)
Cooperativas Agro-Alimentarias De Espana, U. De Coop.
(Spain)
Camelina Company Espana S.L.
(Spain)
Pedal Consulting Sro
(Slovak Republic)
Terres Inovia - Terin
(France)
Arvalis Institut Du Vegetal
(France)
Saipol Sas
(France)
Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum Gemeinnuetzige Gmbh - Dbfz
(Germany)
Centre for Renewable Energy Sources and Saving
(Greece)
IFVNCS - Institut za Ratarstvo i Povrtarstvo Institut od Nacionalnog Znacaja za Republiku Srbiju
(Serbia)
Kimitec Biogroup SL
(Spain)
International Centre For Agricultural Research In The Dry Areas
Novamont Spa
(Italy)
Total Eu Contribution: Euro (EUR) 7.512.996,75
Project Duration in months: 48
Start Date:
01/11/2022
End Date:
31/10/2026
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101081839