Turning Olive Waste into Value

SO1: Olive By-products in Insect Rearing

To explore OB’s role in insect rearing; evaluating insect meal quality, waste reduction, and sustainability.

SO2: In-vitro Testing of Olive Natural Extracts and Insect Meals

To investigate the effects of olive NE, insect meals and their association by means of in-vitro testing.

SO3: Animal Model Testing for Antioxidant Effects

To investigate the effects of olive NE on animal models (ApoE KO mice) to evaluate their antioxidant effects.

SO4: Olive Natural Extracts as Feed Additives

To investigate and demonstrate the use of the olive NE as feed additives for poultry and fish farming.

SO5: Insect Meal as Animal Feed

To investigate and demonstrate the use of insect meal as feed for poultry and fish farming, and evaluate the sustainability of this solution.

SO6: Enhanced Animal Health and Product Quality

To enhance animal health and product quality through NE/insect incorporation into poultry and fish diets.

SO7: Food Packaging Development

To investigate OB’s potential in food packaging to enhance preservation and minimise food losses.

SO8: Biogas Production

To investigate incorporation of animal and insect manure as well as OBs for biogas production.

SO9: Sustainability Assessment

To assess the sustainability of the novel processes and products, and circular repurposing model, in the Water-Energy-Food-Ecosystem (WEFE) Nexus approach through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), Environmental Footprint (EFP) evaluation, and a local level WEFE framework.

SO10: Stakeholder Engagement

To enhance stakeholder interactions through a Multi-stakeholder approach and an online ICT platform, engaging stakeholders in the olive oil local value chain and the poultry/fish supply chain.

SO11: Business Model Development

To produce a business model for the OBs for each demonstration local value chain, to facilitate adoption by farmers and stakeholders, thus fostering the growth of the circular economy.

SO12: Engagement and Dissemination

To implement successful engagement (MSA), dissemination-communication activities and training classes to enhance the capacity of farmers, smallholders, and the supply chain with at least 50% of women trainees, to effectively adopt OLIWA solutions. Additionally, to collaborate with other cognate projects in sundry activities, providing joint policy recommendations to reduce barriers and promote accessibility. To implement the FAIR and open science and data principles.