Identification & Background 

Project title: Agenda VIIAFOOD – Platform for Valorization, Industrialization and Commercial Innovation for AgroAlimentar

Project code: C644929456-00000040

Main objective: Agenda VIIAFOOD, a project supported under the PRR (www.recuperarportugal.gov.pt), aims to promote the structural transformation of the online Agri-food sector with the purpose established in the Pact for Competitiveness and Internationalization of this national sector.

Intervention Region: National
Beneficiary(s) entity(s): 49 beneficiary entities

Date of approval: 23/07/2022
Start date: 01/10/2022
Completion date: 31/12/2025

Total eligible investment: 113.739.250,88€

The VIIAFOOD Agenda aims to create a national platform for the development and industrialization of innovative products, processes and services, materializing in a concerted strategic plan, with joint measures and actions oriented to the transversal objectives of the sector. Indeed, the VIIAFOOD Agenda aims to strengthen collaboration between companies in the agri-food industry, companies from other related industries and Research & Development entities to leverage the creation of synergies and the transfer of knowledge and technologies in order to (re)industrialize the Portuguese Agri-food Sector.

  • WP 1. New formulations of healthier and safer products
  • WP 2. New process technologies for the production of new, healthier and safer products
  • WP 3. New formulations for new sensory experiences
  • WP 4. New process technologies for the production of new varieties of products
  • WP 5. New packaging with advanced features
  • WP 6. New methods of trend and consumer behavior analysis
  • WP 7. New and more sustainable/green products and packaging
  • WP 8. New advanced/digital technologies for efficient food and packaging processes
  • WP 9. New collaborative infrastructures for co-innovation and pre-industrialization
  • WP 10. New promotion and internationalization drivers
  • Develop 130 new products, processes, services and innovative packaging for the national agri-food sector.