Collaborative agri-food innovation with Valorial

Looking to fast track your innovation process? Take a taste of Valorial!

Based in the heart of Europe’s leading agri-food area, Valorial is an agri-food competitiveness cluster catering for north-west France. Valorial’s scope extends across the 3 regions – Brittany, Pays de la Loire and Normandy – and brings together 360 industrial firms, research centres and higher education establishments, to focus on developing smarter food.

Our core purpose

To identify, set up and support innovative, collaborative R&D projects, in 5 cross-cutting areas of excellence:

• Food, nutrition & health
• Food quality & safety
• Manufacturing, processing & preservation technologies
• Functional ingredients
• Agricultural and agri-food marketing

Our chain of personalised services:
from idea to market, pick and mix from our menu

• Consultancy services for project set-up, including European projects
• Consultancy on innovation strategy and management
• Specialised intelligence: “Science  &  technologies”, “Food trends”, “Nutrition & health”, “Focal points & thematic zooms”
• Search for partners
• Financial analysis & planning
• Project management assistance
• Networking
• Promotion/communication

Our missions

• Making smarter food a unifying value: healthy, responsible, convenient, connected, personalised
• Connecting businesses and research partners
• Stimulating and facilitating the emergence of collaborative projects
• Building and managing a community committed to smart foods

Our strengths

• A stakeholder community with a shared commitment to strong, consistent values
• A legitimacy based on the region’s specificities and recognised expertise
• A recognised identity built on successful projects

We’ll provide the right ingredients, you invent the recipe!

VALORIAL leaflet “RECIPE BOOK”

Panorama of the agri-food industries in the French regions : key figures

Brittany (2016)
Interactive maps : agri-food in Brittany (2018/2020)

Normandy (2016)

Pays de la Loire (2016)