UA is a privileged partner for companies and other national and international organisations. During 2019, 628 research and technology transfer projects have been active in UA. From these 134 had or have international collaborations, of which 40 were funded by ERASMUS+ and 48 by Horizon 2020. Among them three ongoing ERC Grants and three more were approved for funding. Research is developed in 20 research centres hosted by UA, 95% of which are classified as very good or excellent.

UA team members have expertise in food chemistry, chemical characterization, food quality assessment, food products development, innovative and sustainable processing technologies, material science, and packaging materials. This team has experience as coordinator on several projects devoted to the development of green solutions related to food preservation, sustainable drying process. UA have expertise in the areas of food control, selection of food markers to assess as a rapid toll different chemical parameter. Complementary, active food packaging, films to protect food products enhancing shelf-life are also expertises that will be implemented in this project.

Food4Sustainability (F4S) is a collaborative laboratory dedicated to innovation in sustainable food production. Its concept and circular production systems approach were developed through a collaborative process with relevant national and international stakeholders and experts as part of BGI’s collaboration with the Idanha-a-Nova municipality and involved various partners from the EIT Digital, Climate KIC and EIT Food networks. F4S aims at developing and testing innovative and sustainable approaches to the intensification of food production, building capacity of farmers in the adoption of state-of-the-art solutions and providing education and experimentation to relevant communities of interest. F4S has 15 founding members, including 4 research and higher education institutions, 2 industrial companies, 5 tech-based SME, 3 producer-focused organisations and is led by BGI, an international start-up/scaleup accelerator.

INRAE is France’s new National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment with a mission- focused on diet, agriculture and environment. The UMR SQPOV (a joint research unit between Avignon University and INRAE) regroups all the research at INRAE on post-harvest, fresh and processed fruits and vegetables. The “Quality and Processing” team of UMR SQPOV has a recognized experience in the characterization of the quality of fruit and vegetables, including fresh and otherwise processed fruits and vegetables.

Pais da Costa & Esteves Pereira – Consultoria Lda, (TA Consulting) is a company founded in 2009 by two partners with extensive experience in management consulting and change management in various national companies. Since that year, TA Consulting has provided management consulting services to public and private entities and has also carried out projects for application to national and international community funds. In the scope of consulting services, the company has carried out with its clients several Marketing and Communication projects directed to the various target audiences of each entity.

TA Consulting has invested in online communication, basing its commercial strategy on it through the use of databases, keywords in ads campaigns or social media and SEO tools, which allowed it to enhance its communication with the market and to disseminate its proposals/solutions of business value.

South Valley University (SVU), Qena-Egypt covers the largest area in the country since it provides direct teaching services to approximately 20% of the total area of Egypt. As compared to this geographical weight, SVU is committed to a big social service role in the region of Upper Egypt. As a matter of fact, for a complete period of 25 years as an independent university, SVU has been serving the mission of a distinguished higher education institution, to comprise its cultural, educational, and service commitment.
SVU has more than 65’000 students enrolled throughout its teaching institutions, with more than 7’000 diploma, MA, MSc, and Ph.D. graduate students. These enrolment figures are a tribute to the creative staff and their responsible dedication to their students.