Competitiveness Cluster:

Nutrition Health Longevity

Thematics:

Biotechnologies / Health

Food Processing / Nutrition

Main interests

  • Nutrition and Health
  • Agri-food industry
  • Biotechnologies
  • Lifestyle-related diseases
  • Metabolic and cardiovascular illnesses
  • Ageing-related illnesses
  • Intestinal bowel diseases
  • Consumer behavior

Keys Figures
  • Financed projects: 77
  • Total cost of the projects:170 M€
  • Total subsidies granted: 72M€

- 19 FUI[1] projects

- 46 innovation projects Bpifrance
- 9 NRA[2]projects
- 3 europeanprojects
- 2 Laboratories of Excellence on
diabetes (EGID) and Alzheimer’s
disease (DISTALZ)
  • Patents (2011): 26
  • Scientificsarticles(2011):77
  • International conferences: 2 (BioFit & NutrEvent)
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92 Members

  • 25intermediate sized enterprises and large enterprises: Auchan,Bonduelle, Ingredia, Lutti, Limagrain, Roquette Frères, LFB Group, Bayer Healthcare, Florimond Desprez, etc
  • 43SMEs:Genfit, Genoscreen, Innobiochips, Naturalpha, Copalis, Leroux, Jacques Maës, etc.
  • 16centers of excellence: Université Lille 2 Droit et Santé, Université Lille 1 Sciences et Technologies, Université d’Artois, Institut Pasteur de Lille, Institut Supérieur d’Agriculture,Lille Regional University Hospital, etc.
  • 8others
Data April2015

Cluster Strengths

  • Number of employees at cluster members: 325 000
  • Key figures for the Health, Biotechnologies and Nutrition sectors in the Nord - Pas de Calais region:
•Companies
- 781 companies
-over 28,000 employees in the region
- over 120,000 employees working for companies throughout the world
- € 8.2 billion turnover
- € 136 million of expenditure on R & D
•Training
-155,000 university students (including 15,000in Life Sciences and Health)
-7 universities and 23 engineering schools
•Research
-over 1,200 researchers in the private sector,including 650 working on cluster-driventopics
-2,000 researchers working in public-sectorlaboratories on biology/health issues, 500 ofwhom work in the NHL cluster’s mainspecialist areas
•Nutraceuticals and functional ingredients market:
-Leading development and diversificationsector for agribusiness industries
-Estimated to be worth €103 billion worldwide in 2010
-Growth rate of 6% per year by 2017

An example of R&D Projects

Led by ROQUETTE Frères, the ALGOHUB™ project has taken on the challenge of creating an industry segment for microalgae exploitation. ALGOHUB™ is a huge R&D programme with the help of 13 partners, with the aim of establishing large-scale microalagae production facilities that will fulfil the market’s requirements.
ALGOHUB™ was labelled as an NHL Cluster project in 2007 and of its overall budget of EUR 28M, a total of EUR10M will come from a grant under the new OSEO ‘Strategic Industrial Innovation’ programme (Innovation Stratégique Industrielle – ISI).
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Existing collaborations

  • French clusters: Atlanpôle Biothérapies, Alsace BioValley, Aquimer, Cancer-Bio-Santé, Céréales Vallée, Eurobiomed, IAR, Lyonbiopôle, PICOM, Valorial, Vitagora…
  • European Food Alliance:
-Wagralim, Belgium
-Flander’s Food, Belgium
-Food Valley, Nederland
-Oresund Food, Denmark
-Skane Food Cluster, Sweden
-Institute of Food Research, England
-Food Processing Initiative, Deutschland
-DIL, Deutschland
-Agro Food Park, Denmark

Contact

  • e-mail for Internationals affairs:
  • web site:

Update:04/08/2014

[1] FUI : Single Interministerial Fund provides support for R&D projects between firms and laboratories from French cluster

[2]NRA : French National Research Agency provides support for academics projects