Project n.087490930405
CUP G58I18000790007 – code Caronte SI_1_31360 – Financing Decree D.D.G. n. 1494/5S of 10/04/2022.

The general project’s objective is the realization of innovative functional products that come from a local and representative product of the Sicilian’s agriculture. The business involved in the project wants to bind innovation and tradition in three products: gluten-free snacks, bread and flour, transforming them in functional-nutraceutical food without even changing the sensorial properties. The project develops in seven phases, integrated and coherent among them, that initiate from the selection of raw materials, till the technical and economical validation of the innovative product that has been made.

The research SIPROFF project has the participation of different research sites:

• Catania’s studying University – Department of nutrition, agriculture and environment (Di3A)

• National Research Site – Bimolecular Chemistry Institute – Catania’s branch

• CERID – Research Center for the Innovation and Spreading of Knowledge

But also leading business in the subject:

• Alimenta s.r.l. azienda capofila
• Valle Del Dittaino Società Cooperativa Agricola
• Molitoria San Paolo S.p.A.

Project’s starting date: 03/01/2021

Project’s ending date: 04/19/2025

The project has been approved for a sum total of € 2.391.853,20  with a total contribution equal to € 2.015.842,48 financed by the interventions within the scope of action 1.1.1 of POC Sicilia 2014_2020 qualified investments for the development and improving of research and innovative skills – Completion ranking Action 1.1.5 of PO FESR 2014/2020.