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project info
Start date: 1 January 2017
End date: 30 April 2021
funding
Fund: European Regional Development Fund (ERDF)
Total budget: 750 240,25 €
EU contribution: 375 013,00 € (49,99%)
programme
Programming period: 2014-2021
Managing authority: Conseil régional Centre-Val de Loire

VALBIOCOSM (VALORISATION OF BIODIVERSITE IN COSMETICS)

The regional integration of the VALBIOCOSM project into a sustainable approach responds to the need of the cosmetics industry for alternatives to synthetic compounds in an increasingly binding regulatory context. The wealth of local biodiversity, not entirely/completely explored to date, as well as the availability of plant cell culture collections within the consortium, opens up real opportunities for the discovery of new natural bioactives. This project is therefore an opportunity for the cosmetics industry and for laboratories that will evolve towards innovation and scientific excellence. This project is built according to a circular scheme with the starting point of sourcing raw materials from plants or plant cells, to arrive at the identification of bio-active principles through the establishment of a new platform for screening biological activity based on the expression of microRNAs. His work will be supported by molecular analysis techniques throughout the process. The VALBIOCOSM project brings together the skills and know-how of four industrial partners and four academic research laboratories: •The Horticulture Development Committee of the Central Region (CDHRC) •Sederma •Botanicosm’Ethic (BCE) •Remedials Laboratory) •The Institute of Organic Chemistry and Analytics (ICOA) •The Laboratory for the Biology of Lineux and Large Cultures (LBLGC) •The Centre for Organic and Analytic Chemistry (ICOA)

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