Title: Bio-based sustainable SURFactants TO foster GREEN industry
Acronym: SurfToGreen
Instrument: HORIZON-JU-IA
Call Identifier: HORIZON-JU-CBE-2023-IA-05
Grant Agreement: 101157586
Project Coordinator: Consorzio Interuniversitario Per Lo Sviluppo Dei Sistemi A Grande Interfase
Communication & Dissemination: Airi
Website: https://www.surftogreen.eu/>
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/surftogreen-eu-project>
Brief Description of the Project:
SurftoGreen develops novel platforms of high-performing, safe and sustainable, bio-based surfactants readily biodegradable, to provide sustainable alternatives to conventional petroleum-based products for key applications.
By using renewable biomass-derived building blocks sourced from EU agricultural and forest side streams, we are creating surfactants with over 95% bio-based content (covering nonionic, anionic, cationic and zwitterionic surfactant families), overcoming the current performance and production throughput constraints, while contributing to foster the market uptake of bio-based, circular solutions.
The project validates the effectiveness, sustainability and safety of its bio-based formulations in industrial demonstrators for home and personal care, textile enhancement, and agriculture.
Funded by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE) >, the project spans 60 months (Oct. 2024 – Sep. 2029) with an allocation of about €9 million, and brings together 16 partners and 3 associated partners from 11 countries.
Title: ZELDA
Acronym: ZEro-waste Lignocellulose-Derived biorefinery products for smArt plant protection
Call Identifier: HORIZON-JU-CBE-2024-RIA-03
Grant Agreement: 101214981
Project Coordinator: UNIVERSITE LIBRE DE BRUXELLES
Communication & Dissemination: FVA – New Media Research
Website: https://zelda-project.eu/
Social media profiles:
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/zelda-eu/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zelda.eu/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61581015533376
Brief Description of the Project:
The ZELDA project aims to develop a new generation of entirely bio-based alternatives to chemical pesticides for crop protection.
Through a zero-waste biorefinery concept, ZELDA will fully valorise lignocellulosic biomasses such as birchwood, grape and tomato residues, and wheat straw into safe, sustainable formulations that combine cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, to produce immune-eliciting products.
Developed under a Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) framework, ZELDA biosolutions will mimick a natural photogenic process to strengthen plant defences against fungal and bacterial pathogens, while promoting plant growth and acting directly as microbicides as secondary effects.
ZELDA also integrates digital and AI-based precision farming tools to optimise field application, reduce waste, and enhance environmental performance. The efficacy of these bio-based solutions will be validated from lab to field on tomato, grape, and cereals across different Europe’s pedo-climatic agricultural regions.
Running from 1 September 2025 to 31 August 2029 and coordinated by Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the project consortium includes 13 partners covering 6 countries. However, the project ensures that all the pedoclimatic regions are taken into account when assessing ZELDA’s products efficacy in 5 countries, thanks also to the involvement of 4 additional affiliated entities.
