The European project EXCornsEED has a budget of 7.2 million euros to develop sustainable technologies to obtain functional ingredients for food, chemicals and cosmetics from the secondary effluents of corn, bioethanol and biodiesel biorefineries.
It has a duration of three and a half years and has an incentive of 4.2 million euros from the partnership. Bio-Based Industries (BBI) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 (H2020) program. Led by the University of Rome Sapienza, the project has 13 partners from 8 European countries (Italy, Slovakia, Romania, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany and the Netherlands).
The EXCornsEED project is part of the European objective of transforming traditional bioethanol production into a new, more sustainable biorefinery concept, in line with the European Union’s bioeconomy strategy and in line with the new concept of bioethanol production. Circular Economy which promotes greater use of resources to make their exploitation more sustainable and environmentally friendly.
With this objective, it aims to combine chemistry, biology, engineering and biotechnology to develop and validate sustainable extraction, purification and concentration technologies applicable to biorefineries in order to extract, from their secondary effluents, proteins and other bioactive compounds (peptides, polyphenols, amino acids, fibers, etc.) for their subsequent use as ingredients in food, chemical and cosmetic products.
