Fermentationexperts Projects
Fermentationexperts participate in a number of projects to improve health for humans and animals.
On this project page, you can find more information on the current project Fermentationexperts is involved in at the national and international levels.
NutriFeeds- A Horizon 2024 Project (2025-2029)
A Horizon Europe project developing regenerative feed solutions by fermenting local crops and agricultural by-products. The goal is to improve animal health, reduce environmental impact, and promote circular livestock production.
Our role: Applying solid-state lactic acid fermentation to enhance nutrient value and sustainability in next-generation feed ingredients.
Retox Pro – Part of the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Plant2Food (2025-2027)
RETOX‑PRO develops solid-state fermentation solutions to remove mycotoxins (e.g., aflatoxins) from legume crops like faba beans.
Our role: We apply our lactic acid fermentation technology to screen and deploy microbial strains that effectively detoxify legumes, delivering safer, higher-quality plant proteins for food and creating valuable strain-curated data to advance plant breeding and fermentation pipelines.
Rapeseed4Food – A Closing Loops Project (2025-2026)
The nationally funded projects aim to increase the circular economy across value chains.
Fermentationexperts’ role is to utilise Danish Rapeseed Cake for Food and scale up the production of Fermented Rapeseed Cake while testing applications in foods. The project partners are Ferm Food ApS, Nordisk Planteprotein and Vadehavsbageriet.
Ohmic Heating – Grand Solutions (2023-2025)
A Danish Grand Solutions project developing ohmic heating technology to treat solid food and feed streams—such as meat cuts, slaughterhouse side-streams, fish meal, and plant-based products—using green electricity.
Our role: Integrating ohmic heating with our patented solid-state lactic acid fermentation to deliver rapid, uniform thermal conditioning that enhances microbial control, process efficiency, and product quality.
Key Partners: Technical University of Denmark (DTU) · Technological Institute (Teknologisk Institut) · DAKA Denmark A/S · Danish Crown Food A/S · Alflow Scandinavia A/S · Skagen FF A/S ·
SmartTang – A GUDP project (2022-2026)
Funded under Denmark’s GUDP programme, SmartTang targets challenges in seaweed-based feed systems: scalability, mechanised farming, and post-harvest stabilisation. The project pilots net-based kelp cultivation integrated with mussel farming, along with new harvesting and stabilisation workflows.
Our Role: Fermentationexperts contributes by developing lactic acid fermentation processes to valorise Danish sugar kelp into fermented feed ingredients and novel food components. Trials include assessing gut health and microbial profiles in piglets fed SMART‑Tang fermented feed, leveraging local seaweed to replace imported biomass.
Key Partners: Aarhus University · DTU Aqua · University of Copenhagen · Wavy Wonders ApS · KOSTStudio · Blå Biomasse ApS ·
SeaMark – A €10 M Horizon Europe project (2022–2026)
Fermentationexperts participates in the SeaMark consortium, funded under Horizon Europe (2022–2026, €10M). Alongside 25 partners, the project aims to scale sustainable seaweed cultivation and processing into market-ready products across food, feed, cosmetics, and packaging.
Our role: Leading microbial fermentation of seaweed biomass to generate pig-feed supplements and human food ingredients. This includes optimising lactic acid–driven, solid-state fermentation workflows and advancing microbial selection, aiming to introduce innovative fermented seaweed products with proven gut-health and performance benefits.
Key Partners: 25-institution consortium led by Ocean Rainforest, including universities and seaweed producers. Ocean Rainforest · ALGAIA S.A. · Sjókovin – Blue Resource · Roscoff Marine Station (CNRS & Sorbonne University) · Wageningen University & Research · Technical University of Denmark (DTU) · University of Copenhagen · University of Hamburg · University of Helsinki · Irish Seaweed Research Group (University College Cork) · National University of Ireland Galway · University of Western Brittany · Algaia France SAS · Blue Lobster Limited · BioMar Group · Fermentationexperts ApS · Seaweed Energy Solutions AS · Technical University of Munich · SINTEF Ocean AS · Ocean Forests SL · Algama SAS · Seaspan Group Ltd · Nofima AS · S.L. Blasquez Marine Ingredients S.A. · SAMWEC SL
IFFA
IFFA project will bring to market high-quality functional food products with anti-inflammatory properties. The core product is a novel ‘fermbiotic’; a fermented product based on pro- and prebiotics and bioactive. Functional drinks containing the fermbiotic, along with other health-promoting ingredients, will be developed. Additionally, the fermbiotic will be formulated into a food supplement. Via this range of products different customer segments will be targeted, ensuring a broad impact, Research has shown that intake of ‘fermbiotics’ can reduce inflammation. By providing consumers with novel products containing fermbiotics, IFFA will contribute to reducing the negative health effects of inflammation, thus increasing overall health.
Read more about the project at https://bit.ly/3vYuu9m
EnXylaScope – A Horizon 2020 initiative (2021–2025, ~€6 M)
Purpose: Enzymatic valorization of xylan to create water-insoluble polymers for consumer products.
Fermentationexperts’ role: Scaling up the use of enzyme-treated xylans in nutraceutical and feed-grade formulations via solid-state fermentation.
Key Partners: AITIIP Foundation · Celignis Limited · IFEU Institute Heidelberg · RISE Research Institutes of Sweden · Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) · SINTEF AS · Kerry Ingredients & Flavours · Lund University · MetGen Oy
You can learn more about the project at www.enxylascope.eu
PPilow – A Horizon 2020 initiative
The PPILOW project aims to improve the welfare of poultry and pigs reared in organic and low-input outdoor production systems.
The Ppilow project targets nonconventional and outdoor rearing systems with reduced inputs and organic systems. Although these systems enable a high degree of expression of natural behaviour by the animals, there are still several welfare issues in organic and low-input outdoor systems that can be similar to conventional systems (e.g. beak trimming in laying hens, euthanisation of one-day-old layer male chicks, and male piglet castration or more specific to these systems, e.g. exposure to outdoor sanitary threats, piglet survival. Fermentationexperts role in the Ppilow Project is to deliver functional feed that improves the natural immune system of layers and pigs to avoid severe infection with pathogens and parasites.
Partners: University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) · Aarhus University · Ghent University · INRAE (French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment) · University of Edinburgh · Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) · Technical University of Munich · Wageningen University & Research · Research Institute of Organic Agriculture (FiBL) · University of Nottingham ·
You can learn more about our role in this short film here or find information at www.ppilow.eu. or sign up for the newsletter here.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 816172.
SIMBA – A Horizon 2020 project (~€10.5 million)
The SIMBA project is a €10.5 million European Union Horizon 2020-funded Innovation project with the aim of creating a better EU Agro-Aqua-Food system using microbiomes that are resource-efficient, climate resilient, sustainable and consumer centred. The four-year project explores and utilises microbiomes from the land and sea to develop feed innovative solutions to address key challenges.
FEED: The role of Fermentationexperts is to develop and test the effect of pelletized feed and to test fermented feed containing health improving substances on fish.
FOOD: Our sister-company FermBiotics test fermented supplements on humans in a clinical trial conducted by Copenhagen University.
If you want to know more about the SIMBA-project, please visit the project website.
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MacroFuels – A Horizon 2020, €6M
Fermentationexperts is engaged in various projects on a national and international level to identify new business opportunities in terms of alternative raw material use in the production of lactic acid fermented feed.
Currently, the company is involved in a project named MAB4 funded by Innovationsfonden. The aim is to scale the production of macroalgae to incorporate the raw material into, e.g. feed and food products and cosmetics. The project coordinator is DTI, and the project is granted DKK11M from Innovationsfonden.
Similar Fermentationexperts is a partner in MacroFuels, which is also a Horizon 2020 EU project. The project aim is to produce advanced biofuels from seaweed or macro-algae. Project coordinator is Stichting Energieonderzoek Centrum Nederland. The project is granted EUR6M.