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HYDROCOW: Producing milk protein from carbon and electricity
Solar Foods is leading a groundbreaking HYDROCOW project to develop a novel biotechnology platform introducing new ways for sustainable food, materials, medicine and chemicals production.
€5.5 m
in funding
4
years
4
partners
4
countries
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About the project
The HYDROCOW project takes bold steps by building a carbon-neutral system that works independently from agriculture and photosynthesis. The biotechnology platform opens new ways to produce sustainable food, materials, medicine and chemicals. The consortium develops a novel biological tool to produce sustainable milk protein from CO2 and electricity whilst removing cow from the process. As their first application, the consortium aims to genetically engineer a hydrogen oxidising bacteria (HOB) to naturally excrete beta-lactoglobulin, a major whey protein in cow’s milk. This means developing a novel biological tool to produce sustainable milk protein from CO2 and electricity whilst removing cow from the process.
Impact of the project:
The HYRDOCOW project has potential to create truly groundbreaking technology for the food industry and make a remarkable impact in the quest of lowering CO2 emissions.
Funding instrument Horizon Europe
Spinverse’s role
At the project planning stage, the HYDROCOW consortium decided to turn to Spinverse to seek their expertise on proposal preparation.
Spinverse team helped execute the consortium's project idea into a winning funding proposal.
Photo credit: Solar Foods (AI-generatedd)
We were impressed by the level of professionalism of Spinverse experts, who supported us in putting together our EIC Pathfinder funding application. Spinverse guided our project consortium in crystallising the project plan, deliverables and budgeting, and structured the funding application so that it turned out to be successful. This collaboration gave the technical experts an opportunity to focus on the content and technical details of the project proposal.
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