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SAVE THE DATE: Horizon4Proteins Webinar Series | Novel Proteins for Feed | 26 June | 11.00-12.00 CET

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While facing climate change and natural resource scarcity, ensuring sufficient, nutritious, safe and affordable food to a fast growing world population with changing dietary habits becomes increasingly challenging. The protein supply is in this respect most critical. Integration of a variety of new or alternative protein sources from both terrestrial and aquatic origin into new and/or existing processes or products needs to be explored, in order to develop and ensure more sustainable, resilient supply chains, featuring high consumer acceptability by a clean labelling approach and attractive market opportunities.

Sharing this goal, the EU H2020 funded projects NextGenProteins, ProFuture, smart protein and SUSINCHAIN launched Horizon4Proteins at the end of 2021 to work together in key aspects such as: Consumer acceptance of alternative proteins, Safety and Regulatory challenges, Food applications, and Sustainability. Beginning of 2023, the EU Horizon Europe funded projects GIANT LEAPS and LIKE-A-PRO joined the collaboration.

Get involved in the Horizon4Proteins!

Participation is free of charge. Registration is required prior to the event.

Register here 

The Horizon4Proteins team

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SUSINCHAIN 3rd Governing Council meeting was held on 4th October 2022 in Roeselare, Belgium

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SUSINCHAIN consortium at the Governing Council meeting in Roeselare, Belgium

The 3rd SUSINCHAIN Governing Council meeting took place in 4th October 2022 in Roeselare, Belgium and was hosted by INAGRO. This annual meeting aims to provide updates regarding the SUSINCHAIN Project. During the day partners have discussed the current status of the SUSINCHAIN project and progress on each Work Package’s activities. Partners have also discussed next steps and the strategy for the last year of the project implementation. This meeting was organized as a hybrid event and was attended by the advisory board members (both physically and online) which provided relevant feedback on the progress reports and advice for strategic project’s decisions. On the 5th October, INAGRO organized a visit to their own insect breeding and aquaculture facility as well to their greenhouse facility, AGROTOPIA, for the SUSINCHAIN project partners. It was a great opportunity to gain more knowledge about the production and research process.

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SUSINCHAIN interactive workshop in Porto contributes to several foresight and scenario envisioning tasks on protein provision for feed and food in Europe

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SUSINCHAIN Scenario Workshop, Porto, Portugal

The two-day interactive workshop took place in Porto on June 30- July 1st. The event gathered 19 participants and aimed to discuss the list of drivers affecting the future development of insect-as-food/feed sector in Europe as well as develop the scenarios of the insects’ sector future.

During the workshop, participants were divided in 2 groups to develop different scenario storylines, focusing both on the insect-as-food sector and on the insect-as-feed sector. The groups have also discussed how drivers may be combined to form storylines for insect food /feed sector by 2035 in EU.

As a result of a group work, synthetic schemes for final scenarios were produced. After the critical discussion the full set of four stories together in a coherent format was brought, so that each was distinct from the others, yet all four formed a related set. A report on the results of the workshop will be produced and made available on the project website.

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SUSINCHAIN participation in the EAAP annual conference – 72nd Annual Meeting of the European Federation of Animal Science Davos, Switzerland 30th August – 3rd September 2021

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During the EAAP annual conference, 21 presentations were given in a SUSINCHAIN project session focusing on latest research results.

EAAP presentation

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SUSINCHAIN workshop on “Supply-side Barriers to large-scale commercialisation of insect proteins in Europe”

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This SUSINCHAIN one-day workshop was implemented virtually on 7 October 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the goal of discussing the most relevant supply-side barriers to large-scale commercialisation of insect proteins in Europe and its potential solutions, the workshop gathered 70 participants online into six working groups with specific topics for discussion: rearing of insects, insect storage & processing, use of insects in feed, use of insects in food, safety, and sustainability.

The workshop has led to very interesting discussions across diverse topics, in particular highlighting discrepancies in EU and national regulations and interpretations. In addition, the following topics were highlighted as focus points:

  • ➡️ Standardisation & harmonisation
  • ➡️ Use of media and approaching consumers (in both feed and food markets)
  • ➡️ Lack of knowledge on safety
  • ➡️ Need for regulation covering insects specifically, taking into account the differences among insect species
  • ➡️ Health and nutrition aspects related to animal feed
  • ➡️ Bulk markets vs Speciality markets
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SUSINCHAIN is conducting an online survey on production and commercialization of insect proteins

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With this online survey, that should take around 45 minutes, SUSINCHAIN wants to identify all past barriers and future risks related to upscaling the insect value chain in order to find the best strategies to overcome these.

The target group of the survey are companies which are rearing or processing insects, using or interested in using insect protein for food and feed, business associations and research organisations.

Please choose below the area you are most interested in and click on the referred link to complete the survey:

If you have any questions regarding the survey or the study, please do not hesitate to contact:

Ms. Hilde Niyonsaba | PhD Business Economics | Wageningen University
Telephone             +31 (0) 6 1202 8010
Mail                        hilde.niyonsaba@wur.nl