Agriculture and food industry in Romania generate large amounts of co/sub-products, which, if not valorised, turn into waste with negative impact The PRO-SPER project approach is to develop integrated, flexible and interconnected processes to transform a series of agro-food by-products into bioproducts required by the market. This approach facilitates the achievement of the goal of the PRO-SPER complex project, the coordination and correlation of the research activities of the consortium member organisations, INCDCP-ICECHIM, UDJ, ICMPP, INCDSB and UAV, to improve the institutional performance in the field of nano-biotechnologies and their applications in the bioeconomy.

The overall objective of the PRO-SPER project is to increase the impact of the R&D and innovation activities of the consortium's R&D&I institutions by developing and valorising innovative technological solutions for bio-nano-processing of by-products from the bio-economy value chains, for the recovery and/or formation of value-added components and their use for the production of high value-added products.

Expected results through project implementation (21 new jobs, 23 national patent applications and 6 international EPO/WIPO patent applications; 10 new technologies/products resulting from the project at a level of technological maturity allowing uptake by economic operators, 5 research and technology service offers; 10 research service cheques, 10 experimental service cheques, 80 training traineeships for young people from and within the partner institutions, 50 working visits for the development of new techniques for joint work within the consortium, 30 traineeships for the training of newly recruited resources, 28 ISI articles, 1 joint RDI programme, linked to the partners' institutional development plan) have a significant impact on the institutional capacity of the consortium partners.