PARTNERS
NUTRIFEEDS brings together 15 partners from 11 European countries and 1 asian country — leading universities, research centres, and industry innovators — all committed to transforming Europe’s livestock feed systems through regenerative and circular solutions.
Together, they cover the entire value chain: from feedstock valorisation and fermentation, to on-farm validation, digital tools, and policy uptake.
Partners
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Freie Universität Berlin is one of Germany’s leading research universities, with strong expertise in animal nutrition, livestock health and welfare, and sustainable feeding strategies. It combines advanced analytical laboratories with feed production and experimental facilities to support nutritional, microbiological, and physiological research in livestock.
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As coordinator of NUTRIFEEDS, FUB leads the overall project management and ensures coordination, data management, quality oversight, and scientific coherence across the consortium. FUB leads WP1, WP6, and WP9. Within the project, it plays a central role in analysing the nutritional profiles and digestibility of innovative feed ingredients, conducting controlled feeding experiments, integrating project data to optimise feed formulations, and contributing to the setup of the European Centre of Regenerative Animal Nutrition (EC-RAN).
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Aarhus University is internationally recognised for its expertise in agricultural and animal sciences, with strong research capabilities in livestock nutrition, fermented feed development, and sustainable animal production.
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AU leads WP3, where it supports the development of fermentation-based approaches for improving alternative feed ingredients. It also plays an important role in WP6, contributing to the assessment of the developed feed solutions in livestock and helping evaluate their effects on animal health and performance.
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The Hellenic Mediterranean University, based in Crete, Greece, is active in applied research on waste valorisation, agri-food innovation, and sustainable production systems. Its expertise includes the development of high added-value products through novel processes, with a particular focus on solar drying and solar energy use in biomass and feed-related applications.
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HMU contributes to WP2 and WP3, supporting the characterisation of food by-products and fermentation-related activities in the project. Its role particularly includes assessing the environmental and economic impact of using solar energy in these processes, helping strengthen the sustainability dimension of the feed production approach developed in NUTRIFEEDS.
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Kaunas University of Technology is one of Lithuania’s leading technical universities, with strong expertise in artificial intelligence, digital technologies, and applied innovation. The university supports cross-sector AI development through advanced computing infrastructure, including HPC, cloud systems, data centres, and GPU-based research environments.
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KTU leads WP5, focused on the development of non-invasive livestock monitoring systems for feeding. Its role includes defining data acquisition requirements for AI training, integrating IoT devices for real-time livestock monitoring, developing AI models, validating the prototype with end-users, and designing user-friendly web and mobile applications.
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The University of Helsinki is Finland’s oldest and largest research university, with recognised expertise in veterinary, agricultural, and environmental sciences.
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UH contributes to WP6, where it conducts feeding experiments with dairy cows to investigate drought-resistant alternatives to imported protein feeds. It also leads Task 6.4 on Animal Welfare Assessment, focusing on stress markers, behavioural analysis, and physiological responses to evaluate the welfare implications of the feed solutions developed in NUTRIFEEDS.
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The University of Milan combines scientific excellence with practical expertise in animal nutrition, feed and food safety, animal production, and analytical research. Its research teams also contribute knowledge on innovative and quality foods developed through sustainable technologies, supported by advanced laboratory and small-scale insect rearing facilities.
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UM contributes mainly to WP2 and WP6. Its role focuses on the characterisation of food by-products and agro-side-streams as substrates for BSFL, conducting small-scale insect rearing experiments with different substrate combinations, and analysing substrates, insect biomass, and frass to support the development of regenerative feed solutions within the project.
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The University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn is a major Polish centre for veterinary and agricultural sciences, with strong expertise in poultry nutrition, livestock management, and animal welfare research.
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UO contributes mainly to WP6, where it analyses the nutritional profiles and digestibility of novel feed ingredients such as insect meals and fermented feeds, and carries out controlled feeding experiments to assess their effects on poultry health and welfare. It also contributes to welfare assessment activities linked to WP5, using AI-based non-invasive monitoring technologies to support the evaluation of broilers under experimental conditions.
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The University of Naples Federico II is one of Europe’s oldest and most respected academic institutions, with expertise in agricultural and animal sciences and experience in research on livestock systems and feed evaluation.
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UN contributes to WP3 and WP6, where it performs in-vitro fermentation tests to assess novel feed materials and supports the evaluation of regenerative feed solutions in small ruminants. In the project, it also applies the in vitro cumulative gas production (IVGPT) method to study fermentation kinetics and gas production in ruminant feed assessment.
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The University of Edinburgh is an internationally leading research university and a global centre of expertise in interdisciplinary animal science, including nutrition, animal performance, health, and welfare. Through its College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, The Roslin Institute, and The Royal Dick School of Veterinary Studies, it brings together advanced veterinary, genomic, bioinformatic, and AI-enabled research capabilities.
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UEDIN contributes to WP5, WP7, and WP8, where it plays a leading role in selected tasks related to AI-based animal monitoring methodologies, the economic sustainability of feed chains, and the development of policy and standardisation-related outputs. It also leads the public deliverable on user acceptance of the non-invasive livestock monitoring system in WP5.
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The Research Institute for the Biology of Farm Animals (FBN) conducts cutting-edge research into responsible and resource-conserving livestock farming as an essential part of sustainable agriculture. Its work addresses regulatory physiological mechanisms in different farm animal species, including small ruminants, poultry, and black soldier fly larvae.
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FBN leads WP2 and contributes to WP4 and WP6. In the project, it conducts experiments with black soldier fly larvae, sheep, and poultry, supports the selection and characterisation of underutilised heat- and drought-tolerant plants, carries out feeding experiments with these plants and their derived products, and leads controlled broiler trials to determine net energy in alternative feed formulations.
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Fermentationexperts is a Danish biotechnology SME with strong expertise in microbial fermentation for feed and food applications. The company combines theoretical and practical knowledge with laboratory, pilot-scale, and full-scale production capabilities for fermented and dried feed products.
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FE contributes to WP3, where it tests, improves, and scales up microbial fermentation methods to help bring NUTRIFEEDS solutions closer to market readiness. Its role particularly focuses on moving fermented feed production from laboratory scale to semi-industrial scale, validating the process through pilot runs, and ensuring product quality for feeding trials and future commercial application.
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Terraprima is a Portuguese environmental services company working in carbon farming, agroecology, and sustainability assessment, with strong links to farming communities and practical experience in environmental and socioeconomic analysis.
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TP contributes mainly to WP7, supporting the project’s life cycle sustainability assessment activities. It leads Task 7.2 on Environmental Life Cycle Assessment (E-LCA) and supports the development of the broader LCSA methodology, helping assess the environmental, economic, and social performance of NUTRIFEEDS solutions.
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Contactica is a Spanish SME specialised in innovation consulting for EU-funded projects, with expertise in project management, communication and dissemination, exploitation, life cycle assessment, circularity, ecodesign, and sustainability-driven innovation.
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CTA leads WP7 and WP8. In WP7, it is responsible for the project’s environmental, economic, and social sustainability assessment under a life cycle approach. In WP8, CTA coordinates the communication, dissemination, and exploitation activities of NUTRIFEEDS, including the communication strategy, website, networking, clustering, and exploitation planning.
Associated Partners
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ETH Zürich is one of the world’s leading universities in science and technology, with advanced expertise in black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) research for food and feed applications. Its work includes insect digestibility, feed pre-treatments, physical feed properties, and the use of sidestreams for BSFL bioconversion.
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As an associated partner, ETH contributes to WP2 and leads two task-level activities focused on bench-scale BSFL feeding and gas exchange studies and on the determination of digestibility and stage-specific feeding targets for BSFL. It also supports FBN in assessing the scalability of BSFL production from benchmark experiments towards larger-scale production for feeding trials.
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Sichuan Agricultural University is a major Chinese institution specialising in animal sciences, feed evaluation, nutrient metabolism, feed processing and formulation, with strong international collaboration in agricultural research.
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As an associated partner, SAU contributes mainly to WP3 and WP6, supporting research activities in Tasks 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, and 6.2. It brings expertise in feed evaluation, animal nutrition, and health- and welfare-related research, while also strengthening synergies with Chinese researchers and institutions within the project.
Each partner contributes unique skills that together form the backbone of NUTRIFEEDS:
- Scientific excellence (universities & research institutes)
- Technological innovation (industrial and SME partners)
- On-farm validation (livestock and sustainability experts)
- Impact and communication (management and outreach partners)
This integrated expertise ensures NUTRIFEEDS can deliver real, scalable solutions for regenerative livestock feed across Europe.