CORE Organic Cofund is a collaboration between 27 partners in 19 countries/regions on initiating transnational research projects in the area of organic food and farming. CORE Organic Cofund has in total initiated twelve research projects based on funds from participating countries and funding from the European Commission.

CORE Organic is an ERA-NET - a network of European ministries and research councils funding research in organic food systems at national levels. The main focus of the ERA-NET is to join forces and fund transnational research projects support a focused and coordinated research and innovation effort covering the most important challenges along the organic value chains.

CORE Organic is the acronym for "Coordination of European Transnational Research in Organic Food and Farming Systems".

News from CORE Organic

2021.11.16 | Agriculture and food

Food industry by-products: waste or promising resource?

Food industries produce huge amounts of unwanted by-products, which are often discarded, used as low-quality animal feed or in the energy sector. However, most by-products show potential for valorization based on their nutritional composition

Fig. 1: Grapebunch infected by fungi resulting in loss of yield and quality
Fig. 2: A grapebunch of the disease tolerant variety Souvignier gris
Fig. 3: Percentage of age category that indicates to drink champagne, prosecco, cava, crémant and/or sekt
Fig. 4: Number of times a wine was preferred above the other four wines in a blind test
Fig. 5: Microvinification of sparkling wines of the SPiwi-project at WBI Freiburg
Fig. 5b: Microvinification of sparkling wines of the SPiwi-project at WBI Freiburg

2021.11.16 | Agriculture and food

Sustainable production of innovative sparkling wine

The SPiwi-project investigates and optimizes strategies for the production of oriented organic ‘SParkling’ wines, made from ‘Piwi’ (fungus-resistant) grape varieties. These relatively new varieties require research to optimise their vinification potential.

Press cakes made from dehulled, hulled and partially dehulled sunflower seeds (from left to right).

2021.11.16 | Agriculture and food

Things are growing – fermentation of side stream blends in FERBLEND

Sustainable production which, among others, addresses waste reduction and the exploration of innovative ways to increase resource efficiency is one of the major challenges of the food chain. The project FERBLEND aims at valorizing blends of two side streams through fermentation, namely press cakes from organic oilseed processing and whey from…

Pictures show nodules of Medicago sativa inoculated with a mix of S. meliloti Rm1021 RFP-tagged and GR4 GFP-tagged (A); S. meliloti BL225C RFP-tagged and USDA1157 GFP-tagged (C) or KH35c GFP-tagged (D); S. meliloti AK83 RFP-tagged and HM006 GFP-tagged (B and E).

2021.11.16 | Agriculture and food

Decoding the competition pattern among rhizobia for the formulation of elite inoculants to enhance alfalfa production

The selection of rhizobia with high competition abilities, and more adapted to stressful conditions, is fundamental to formulate elite inoculants for enhancing alfalfa yield and improving its growth in marginal areas.