Funded EU and national research projects

We are involved in various nationally and internationally funded research projects.
Our team’s interdisciplinary expertise and close collaborations with academic institutions and industrial partners throughout Europe enable us to contribute to scientific advances in the environmental field.

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High-value products from agricultural residues through sustainable chains

Duration: Dec 2022 - Nov 2026

Coordinator: INRAE - National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, France

Budget: 10 million €

AGRILOOP is an EU, UK, Swiss and China funded project that brings together 35 academic and industrial partners to convert underexploited agricultural residues into high-value bioproducts. Its main objective is to develop safe-and-sustainable-by-design (SSbD) bioconversion processes integrated into a cascading biorefinery. This will produce plant and microbial proteins, polyesters, and other bio-based chemicals for various […]

Valorisation of slaughterhouse and pulp and paper waste to produce cost-efficient PHAs for agricultural and personal care application

Duration: May 2023 - Apr 2027

Coordinator: AIMPLAS - Plastics Technology Centre, Spain

Budget: 7.1 million €

ELLIPSE is an Innovation Action project funded by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU). The project aims to valorize slaughterhouse waste and sludge from the paper and pulp industry into high-value products: polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) for packaging and agricultural sectors and bio-based fertilizers (BBFs). ELLIPSE has brought together 13 partners from 8 countries with […]

Valorising anaerobic digestates into bio-fertilisers for climate friendly agricolture

Duration: Sep 2023 - Apr 2028

Coordinator: National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Budget: 3.8 million €

LIFE DIMITRA, co-funded by the EU LIFE programme, aims to develop innovative technologies for the sustainable management of agricultural digestate from biogas production. The project involves partners from Italy, Greece, Poland, and Cyprus to recover reusable water and produce different bio-based fertiliser formulations that will be tested and validated at farm level. These technologies will […]

Resource recovery from novel assisted metabolism

Duration: Sep 2023 - Feb 2026

Coordinator: University of Verona, Italy

Budget: 216,000 €

REFRAME, funded by the EU under Horizon Europe’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), aims to develop a novel bioelectrochemical system to valorize primary cellulose sludge and reduce municipal treatment plants energy consumption. Federico Micolucci, with the support of LabICAB’s team, is responsible for the design, management, and optimization of the system to convert the recovered cellulose […]

Turning carbon of complex organic urban waste streams into value-added products

Duration: Jun 2021 - May 2026

Coordinator: URBASER, Spain University of Verona as third party

Budget: 23 million €

CIRCULAR BIOCARBON is an EU project funded by the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) under Horizon 2020. It aims to create a first-of-its-kind flagship biorefinery to convert municipal solid waste (OFMSW) and sewage sludge (SS) into high-value products like coatings, biodegradable and compostable waste bags, green graphene-based devices, and biostimulants. The project involves 11 […]

Digital Twin for cost-efficient treatments of wastewater in anaerobic reactors

Duration: Dec 2023 - Aug 2026

Coordinator: NABLADOT, Spain

Budget: 656,000 €

DT4ART is an Eurostars project under the European Partnership for Innovative SMEs, co-funded by the EU through Horizon Europe and the Eureka Network. Four Spanish and Italian companies, together with the University of Verona, are developing a cloud-based digital twin to improve the efficiency of anaerobic reactors used for treating industrial wastewater in sectors such as […]

Sustainable PHA Recovery from agri-food waste via purPLE non-sulfur bacteria mixed cultures

Duration: Sep 2023 - Feb 2026

Coordinator: Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Budget: 270,000 €

PHARPLE is a collaborative research project between Politecnico di Milano Univerity and the University of Verona, funded by the Italian ministerial programme fund for Research Projects of National Interest (PRIN). The project develops two novel bioprocesses exploiting the metabolic versatility of purple non-sulfur bacteria (PNSB) mixed cultures for the efficient recovery of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) from […]

Biostimulant impact and action in agriculture

Duration: Dec 2022 – Nov 2025

Coordinator: University of Verona, Italy

Budget: 565,000 €

BIOSIMPACT, funded by Cariverona Foundation, focuses on the development of a supply chain for the recovery and use of nutrients (N, P and K) essential for plant growth, and for the production of microalgae-based biostimulants from livestock manure digestates. To achieve this goal and tangible impacts, six research groups from the University of Verona work […]

Biotechnological transformation of municipal wastes into high-value compounds: volatile fatty acids, polyhydroxyalkanoates, and biofuels

Duration: Sep 2023 - Sep 2025

Coordinator: University of Verona, Italy

Budget: 316,000 €

BIOREFINE is a collaborative research project between the Universities of Rome, Venice, and Verona, funded by the Italian PRIN fund as part of the NEXT-Generation EU – NATIONAL RECOVERY AND RESILIENCE PLAN (PNRR). The project aims to valorize urban waste by transforming it into high-value products such as volatile fatty acids (VFAs), medium-chain fatty acids […]

Sistemi innovativi per la produzione sostenibile di biometano da FORSU ed altre matrici organiche

Duration: Apr 2024 - Apr 2027

Coordinator: LADURNER - Ambiente S.p.a , Italy

Budget: 13 million €

The project, funded by MISE (Ministry of Economic Development), is a collaboration between Ladurner Ambiente S.p.a. and the Departments of Biotechnology and Business Administration of the University of Verona. It aims to optimise the production of biogas in the anaerobic digestion processes of Organic Fraction of Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW), integrating advanced technologies for the […]

Approcci innovativi interdisciplinari per la riduzione dell’impatto ambientale della vinificazione

Duration: Jan 2023 - Dec 2025

Coordinator: University of Verona, Italy

Budget: 266,000 €

The WINERED project, funded by MASAF (Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Forestry) and led by the Department of Biotechnology of the University of Verona, aims to reduce the environmental impact of winemaking through an interdisciplinary approach. Among the solutions proposed: the use of microalgae to capture CO₂ from fermentation, the recovery of nutrients from […]

Processi innovativi biologici e bio-elettrochimici per la produzione di idrogeno da matrici organiche di scarto

Duration: May 2023 - May 2025

Coordinator: University Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy

Budget: 500,000 €

BRIC INAIL 2022 is a collaborative project involving six Italian research groups from the Universities of Venice, Verona, Rome, Naples, and Pisa, and ATS (Alto Trevigiano Servizi S.p.A.). The project, funded by the INAIL , aims at enhancing emerging technologies and upgrading existing ones for the production of bio-hydrogen from organic residue matrices, aligning with […]

Interconnected Nord-Est Innovation Ecosystem

Duration: Sep 2022 - Jun 2026

Coordinator: University of Padova, Italy

Budget: 110 million €

Financed by the EU through NextGenerationEU, iNEST is a network of universities, public research institutions, territorial institutions and companies in north-eastern Italy. Its goal is to develop synergies between multiple territorial avenues by implementing digital and ecological transition technologies.

National Bioversity Future Center

Duration: Jun 2022 - Aug 2025

Coordinator: CNR-Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy

Budget: 320 milliion €

The National Biodiversity Future Center (NBFC), funded by the EU through the NextGenerationEU programme, is a national research network composed of universities and research centers, created to support frontier research dedicated to the conservation of ecosystems and biodiversity.

Bio-Based production of Nitric Acid from anaerobic digestate

Duration: Sep 2022 - Aug 2024

Coordinator: University of Verona, Italy

Budget: 17,000 €

2b-NITRICA is a University of Verona’s Joint Research project co-funded by Future Concimi Manure Srl (FCM), an Italian producer of fertilizers and soil improvers derived from digestate. In this project, LabICAB has developed an innovative, proprietary technology at pilot-scale to produce bio-based nitric acid from anaerobic digestate. This versatile acid is suitable for various applications, […]

A circular economy system for multi-source biomass conversion to added value products

Duration: Jan 2019 - Dec 2024

Coordinator: National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Budget: 2.6 million €

The Life CIRCforBIO project aims to significantly reduce GHG emissions by replacing fossil fuels with advanced biofuels and promoting the circular economy for biomass. It demonstrates an innovative biorefinery concept to produce bioethanol, used oil (raw material for biodiesel), and other bioproducts from food waste and agricultural residues. An interactive platform has been created to […]