WIDEnzymes

Widening Synergies for
Novel Enzymes Development

Duration: 2024-2027

Budget: €1.2M (Horizon Europe Widera)

Partners: 5 partners

Coordinator: Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis

Vision

WIDEnzymes aims to create a competitive, cross-border enzyme technology ecosystem that boosts European science, industry, education and leadership while reducing disparities in widening countries like Latvia, Slovakia and Greece.

Mission

- Establish a cohesive, strategic, and sustainable system to align and fully exploit high-priority EU’s Research and Innovation (R&I) and cohesion policy (e.g., ERDF) programmes, that maximises efforts and investments in widening countries.

- Strengthen widening countries’ competitiveness and talent retention by fostering a more robust, inclusive, integrated biotechnology ecosystem that can boost European leadership in the key enzyme technology market.

- Create a platform that ensures crucial cross-disciplinary knowledge transfer in synthetic biology that accelerats the translation of cutting-edge research findings into practical applications.