Gioacchino Bono
Senior Technologist
Mazara Del Vallo
CIRCLES aims to develop and translate tailor-made innovative circular actions dedicated to the microbiome into concrete applications useful for improving key EU food system supply chains and their overall sustainability. Establishing real-world laboratories in the field of 6 food systems relevant to the EU market – tomatoes, spinach, poultry, pigs, Atlantic salmon, and sea bream aquaculture – will, in the first instance, enable CIRCLES to increase knowledge about the importance of food system microbiomes as determinants of productivity, quality, safety, and sustainability. This discovery phase will feed into the design and implementation of circular actions tailored to specific microbiomes in the food system. Based on an integrative use of different Smart Microbiome (SM) modulators, circular actions aim to optimize the microbiomes of food systems, from field to table, for an overall improvement in food system performance. The effectiveness of the actions will then be tested in field laboratories. This real-world validation phase will enable CIRCLES to translate the project results into concrete products, applications, procedures and tools, ready to be exploited and communicated to penetrate the EU market. Specifically, CIRCLES will conceptualize and create SM-food systems for 6 CIRCLES food chains, defined as food systems with optimized microbiome configurations. CIRCLES will also provide innovative and newly defined SM food products, such as foods derived from SM-food systems and certified by Microbiome Transparent (MT) labels. Finally, an extensive panel of food system-specific SM modulators will be provided as new agro-biotechnology applications to be integrated into circular actions to achieve SM-food system status. In conclusion, the conceptualization, creation and deployment of MS food systems and all related procedures, products and tools will enable CIRCLES to equip EU food systems with new cost-effective business applications to improve productivity, quality , safety and sustainability.
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Programme: H2020
Acronym: CIRCLES
Web Site: https://circlesproject.eu/
Duration: November 1, 2018 - October 31, 2024
Budget: 11.087.514,75 €
Budget IRBIM: 511.125,00 €
Areas of Research:
Senior Technologist
Mazara Del Vallo
Administrative Collaborator
Ancona
Technical Collaborator
Lesina
Administrative Collaborator
Ancona
Senior Researcher
Messina
Director of Research
Ancona
Senior Researcher
Ancona
Researcher
Messina
Technologist
Mazara Del Vallo
Researcher
Ancona
Referent:
Enrico Arneri
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Referent:
Federica Grilli
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Referent:
Iole Leonori
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Referent:
Giuseppe Scarcella
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Referent:
Giulia Maricchiolo
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