Making the agri-food sector of Western France the home of smarter food

A tight-knit mesh to remove locks

In addition to these 6 areas of innovation, with our sector-based approach we can cover all your innovation issues. 

• Milk & dairy products
• Meat products
• Bakery: bread, biscuits, pastries, cakes
• Egg products
• Fruit and vegetables
• Food products of aquatic origin
• …

Our actions to encourage ideation (Valorial’Connection…), provide support (project development, approval…) and promote your innovation projects are shaped around this mesh.

• Around ten Valorial’Connection events held each year, with a focus on cross-sector themes to stimulate, federate and network around shared issues: nutrition for pregnant and breastfeeding women, industrial performance, the power of food colour, experiential marketing…
• Approval of some 30 collaborative innovation projects each year, spread between the 5 areas: TexSens, Tank2020, AAginov

These areas cover issues such as:

• Water, climate, soil: integrated approach to the preservation of terroirs (maintaining the agronomic quality of soils, preservation of water resources, adaptation to climate change)
• Operational excellence of farms & plants: deployment of new technologies (equipment & process performance, new technologies to assist human work, digital transformation)
• Food supply for better eating: safe, healthy & sustainable food (nutritional & organoleptic quality, healthy & safe food, sustainable food, food security)
• Sustainable plant & animal production: new inputs, agro-ecological approach (variety & breed improvement, optimisation of the use of plant & animal protection products, plant and animal nutrition)
• Integral valorisation of biomass: potentialising co-products (biomass mobilisation, new economic models, biosourced chemistry, extraction of nutritional and functional ingredients, territorial bioenergy)
• Innovative food uses & services: creating value beyond the product (food uses & services, distribution channels, new business models)