Contribution to the European Strategic Policies
HIGHFIVE
The HIGHFIVE project supports digital and green innovation in the European agri-food sector by helping SMEs adopt smart technologies. It promotes interregional collaboration and funding opportunities to boost sustainability and competitiveness in food processing.
The Green Deal launched by the European Commission aims for a fundamental transformation of Europe and a key element in this policy is a fully sustainable food system as outlined in the farm-to-fork strategy. To achieve the goals set out in the Farm-to-Fork strategy, digitalisation of the agri-food value chain and the entire food system is a condition sine qua non. In other words: there is no Green Deal without Digital and as such, the agri–food sector in Europe (like other industry sectors) is facing a Twin Transition challenge: becoming more green and sustainable by fully embracing digitalisation.
The overall goal of “enHancing dIgital and Green growtH in the Food processing industry via Interregional innoVation invEstments” (HIGHFIVE) is to foster, enable and facilitate SME targeted and interregional investment actions to implement or bring to the market innovative digital solutions to concrete challenges of the food processing companies and thus contributing to the Farm-to-Fork strategy. Therefore, HIGHFIVE builds upon and contributes to the strategy and implementation roadmap of the S3 partnership SS4AF, with all cluster partners of the HIGHFIVE project being SS4AF members.
