A study published by the European Commission on the protein crop sector reveals a remarkable decrease in protein crop production in the European Union in the past ten years. The main crops excluding soybeans decreased by 30%, and soybean production by 12%. This trend...

The primary difference between animal and plant proteins is their amino acid profiles and it is those profiles that direct the rates at which the absorbed amino acids are put to use within the body. Animal based proteins, of course, are much more similar to our...

  GreenProtein is an initiative devised by a consortium made up of 7 partners from four different countries (Spain, The Netherlands, France and Serbia) coordinated by Provalor, a Dutch SME. The goal of the GreenProtein project is to develop and demonstrate a new...

On the past 14th June, AINIA, one of the most prestigious Spanish technology centres with over 30 years of experience, organised an International Technical Workshop on Biorefinery of organic agri-food and urban waste. Paulus Kosters, our project coordinator, was...

Coinciding with the end of the project’s first period, the GreenProtein consortium held its third General Assembly on May 23rd and 24th, this time in Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking premises in Brussels. This was the perfect opportunity for the whole consortium...

GreenProtein was one of the about 80 projects present in the "BBI-JU Stakeholder Forum 2017" took place during the 6th and 7th of December 2017. This event, was the first forum convened by the Private-Public Partnership BBI-JU, which was launched in 2014. The main...

Total Food 2017 is a three days conference focused on the sustainable exploitation of agri-food co-products and related biomass, thereby helping to minimise waste. It will bring together agri-food companies, scientists, consumer organisations and waste experts to...

The GreenProtein consortium hold its second general assembly during 7th and 8th of September in Murcia (Spain). The meeting was hosted by BIONET ENGINEERING and took place in its headquarters in Fuente Álamo. The whole group came together for the second time to put in...

On 16 October 2017, it will take place in Brussels the Science Policy Dialogue “Harnessing Research and Innovation FOOD 2030”. This one day conference will serve to disseminate successful European Research and Innovation (R&I) initiatives and contribute to the...

On the 1st of September is the first anniversary of the GreenProtein project. After one year of project execution and the collaboration of all the partners, we have made progress in the design of the RuBisCo’s extraction and purification process as well as other key...