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SmartGreenEcos is a European project that aims to create a Mediterranean smart ecosystem of 100 food industry businesses, fostering collective innovation, digital and green transition, and improved business competitiveness.
Benefits from participating in SmartGreenEcos
By joining SmartGreenEcos, a company gains access to digital platforms and services for
1. Artificial Intelligence applications to optimise production, reduce energy and raw material costs
2. Learning AI solutions supporting the digital and green transitions
3. Digital procurement, e-commerce, B2B and B2C, and supply chain innovation
4. Collaborative new product development and knowledge exchange
5. Networking and joint innovation opportunities with companies and research organisations from MED countries.
Participation
Participation in SmartGreenEcos is free of charge. Each participating company will receive a package of advanced services in AI-driven production optimisation, AI learning, smart procurement, and product development, customised to its specific needs.
However, only 25 companies from Greece will be selected, based on their commitment to active participation in the ecosystem’s activities (workshops, use of services, procurement, and collaborative innovation).
Why SmartGreenEcos is different
As a model of collaborative innovation, SmartGreenEcos follows a different path from that of startups, which are typically small, high-risk ventures developing niche solutions. Instead, the aim is to mobilise an entire industry of established companies to innovate collectively. The focus is both on innovation at the individual company level, and the transformation of the industry sector as a whole. Through collaboration and the diffusion of smart and green technologies, this model ensures that even smaller firms gain access to shared technological capabilities and innovation resources.
Who can participate
SmartGreenEcos focuses on the Manufacture of Dairy Products (NACE 10.5). This sector lies at the centre of a broad, interconnected value chain that extends from upstream inputs, to processing, packaging, distribution, and supporting activities. Participating companies may belong to the key segments of the dairy value chain, such as:
Upstream chain (inputs)
– 10.91 Manufacture of prepared animal feeds
Core of the chain (NACE 10.5)
– 10.51 Processing of milk and production of cheese
– 10.52 Manufacture of ice cream
Supporting industries
– 28.93 Manufacture of machinery for the diary industry
– 21.10 Manufacture of basic industrial biotechnological inputs (cultures, enzymes)
– 22.22 Manufacture of plastic packaging for food
– 23.13 Manufacture of hollow glass (bottles)
Trade and markets (downstream)
– 46.33 Wholesale of dairy products
– 47.29 Retail sale of food products in specialised stores
By participating in SmartGreenEcos, a company strengthens its innovation capacity and competitiveness, gains access to advanced digital platforms and AI applications for digital and green transition, becomes part of an international network and MED association of businesses and knowledge organisations, and contributes to collective solutions that benefit the entire industry to which it belongs.
For more information or to express interest: contact@urenio.org
SmartGreenEcos is a project funded by the Interreg NEXT MED
