More examples of finalised LIFE Close-to-Market projects

Transforming olive waste into new sustainable bio-composites: a greener future for industry.
To tackle this environmental challenge, the LIFE COMP0LIVE project is pioneering a revolutionary approach: transforming olive pruning waste into bio-composites for industrial applications.
- Project locations
- Spain

New insect protein to replace soy and fish meal.
The LIFE Waste2Protein project promotes the use of organic residues from supermarkets, food industry, agriculture, etc. as a resource to produce insect protein from larvae of the Black Soldier Flies.
- Project locations
- Germany

Limiting ammonia emissions
As the global population continues to grow, the agricultural sector faces the challenge of increasing food production while ensuring sustainability. With limited land, water, and other resources available, it is essential to adopt a circular economy approach ...
- Project locations
- Netherlands

Extensive and inefficient usage of water
High population density and growth rates have led to increased competition for natural resources such as water. This competition is not only for drinking water but also for water to meet the needs of a growing society. Agriculture accounts ...
- Project locations
- Italy

It is well known that water networks, even the best maintained, all suffer from leaks at some level. Few know, however, that the same thing happens with gas. These losses are due to micro-leaks with no consequence to the areas involved and are proportional to the pressure present in the gas ...
- Project locations
- Italy

The growth in solar energy capacity exceeds the growth in total energy demand globally. However, this renewable type of energy is still strongly dependent on governmental regulations and incentive programmes due to high costs and low efficiency.
- Project locations
- Sweden
News LIFE C2M

With C2M’s support, COMP0LIVE has crafted a strong business plan to scale its innovation. Next step? Launching a startup to transform olive pruning waste into sustainable biocomposites.
LIFE Waste2Protein (madebymade) addresses the challenges of food waste and animal feed by recycling organic residues into insect protein. This innovative solution has earned them the prestigious 2024 LIFE Award for Circular Economy and Quality of Life.

New rules on urban waste water came into force this month — but LIFE was already well ahead of the game. Let’s look at four LIFE projects helping clean up Europe’s dirty wastewater.

At an early stage, Instagrid received funding through the LIFE CLEANAIRMM project. Today, they are worth more than €350 million and have shipped around 30 000 units of their product. We spoke to Sarah Fichtner from Instagrid, to learn more about their journey as a LIFE beneficiary.