Articles published by: Raquel Folgado

Raquel Folgado / 02 July 2026

ACE-EX: When farming changes, the people who farm must change with it.

If the sector changes its model, are the people who work in it ready to change with it? It is around that question that twenty partners from nine countries have, over these years, built a training pathway for the circular economy in agriculture. And it is around that question that the voices of policy, industry,…

Raquel Folgado / 11 June 2026

Ferm4Food: From CO₂ to High-Value Ingredients

The kick-off meeting of the FERM4FOOD project takes place today in Valencia. Funded under the Horizon Europe programme, this initiative proposes an innovative circular solution for the European agri-food industry: capturing CO₂ generated during industrial fermentation processes — such as those in breweries, wineries and bakeries — and converting it into high-value food ingredients through…

Raquel Folgado / 04 June 2026

OCEOMICS kicks off to explore marine biodiversity for sustainable cosmetic bioactives

OCEOMICS, a new Horizon Europe-funded project (Grant Agreement No.101291290), officially starts today with the aim of advancing marine bioprospecting through a multidisciplinary, industry-driven approach that combines genomic-based computational screening, artificial intelligence and biotechnological tools. Over the next four years, the consortium will work to discover, characterise, optimise, scale up and demonstrate the production of new…