HIGHFIVE I3 EU-project

Project information

Projects official name:
HIGHFIVE – enHancing dIgital and Green growtH in the Food processing industry via Interregional innoVation invEstments (GA 101083989)

Project period:
1.12.2022-30.11.2025

Funding:
European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) 70 %

Project budget:
11 600 000 €

SeAMKs part of the budget: 311 000 €

Goal of the project

The overall goal of the HIGHFIVE – project 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 strategy and implementation roadmap of the S3 partnership SS4AF, with all cluster partners of the HIGHFIVE project being SS4AF members.

HIGHFIVE will contribute to strengthening the European agri-food value chain and contributing to a more digital, sustainable and resilient agri-food sector in Europe.

Concretely HIGHFIVE aims to accomplish the following things:

Deploy a portfolio of three industry driven implementation projects that will serve as demo-cases and provide valuable lessons learnt for both the cluster partners as for other SMEs.
Implement a voucher scheme to fund SME innovation investment projects across Europe
Provide customized individual and collective support actions to enable SMEs to overcome the hurdles connected to implementing innovative digital technologies
Extract the results and lessons learnt throughout the project activities and to valorise them within the SS4AF network and transfer them to additional European stakeholders.