COMPANY PROFILE
Organization Name:
WIISE S.r.l.
Organization Type:
SME / Benefit Company
Country:
Italy
Expertise Keywords:
Regulatory Affairs, Novel Food Compliance, Circular Economy Law, Policy Advocacy, Value Chain Logistics, Technical Communication.
Organisation description
WIISE S.r.l. is an Italian Benefit Company specialized in providing comprehensive legal, technical-regulatory, and strategic consulting services for the global agri-food sector through its FARE division. WIISE acts as a strategic bridge between research and market, ensuring that technical innovations—such as microalgae proteins, camel dairy products, and circular bio-based materials—successfully navigate the complex European regulatory landscape.
Relevant Project Experience
WIISE has demonstrated a proven capacity to manage international multi-actor consortia in significant European projects:
- CAMELMILK (PRIMA): Led the regulatory pathway for the commercialization of camel milk products in the Mediterranean, ensuring alignment with EU safety and quality standards.
- ProFuture (H2020): Managed regulatory hurdles for microalgae-based protein ingredients, developing “Regulatory-by-Design” strategies for 31 European partners.
- EcoeFISHent (H2020): Coordinated the regulatory aspects and flow logistics for a territorial cluster transforming fish side-streams and gear into high-value products (cosmetics, packaging, nutraceuticals)
- Wasteless (Horizon Europe): Focused on the harmonization of European food waste monitoring and the legal framework for “upcycled” food ingredients, facilitating the transition toward a zero-waste agri-food system.
Core Competencies and Role in EU Projects
Across our portfolio, the common thread of success is the integration of regulatory mastery into the innovation lifecycle. Our participation focuses on:
- Regulatory & Compliance Management (Novel Foods & Upcycling): Leading the evaluation and management of Novel Food authorization procedures (Reg. EU 2015/2283). We specialize in creating legal frameworks for “upcycled” ingredients and traditional products from Third Countries, transforming “waste” or “novelty” into market-ready food assets.
- Policy Advocacy & Standardized Monitoring: Active involvement in high-level policy clusters (e.g., Horizon4Proteins and WASTELESS) to advocate for regulatory streamlining and standardized data collection protocols for food loss and waste across the EU.
- Circular Economy & Value Chain Logistics: Coordinating the regulatory aspects of “territorial clusters,” ensuring that the flow of side-streams (e.g., fish-waste to cosmetics or food-waste to upcycled ingredients) complies with safety, hygiene, and logistics standards.
- Safety & MOCA Standards: Providing specialized guidance for Materials and Objects in Contact with Food (MOCA), specifically for biodegradable and compostable packaging solutions developed within circular bio-economy projects.
- Regulatory-by-Design Knowledge Transfer: Authorship of best-practice manuals, roadmaps, and white papers that allow technical breakthroughs to be replicated across different EU Member States while maintaining strict legal compliance.
- Strategic Communication & Dissemination: Leveraging proprietary platforms (e.g., Great Italian Food Trade and Food Times) to provide high-level visibility to project results, targeting technical stakeholders, policymakers, and the general public.
Alignment between WIISE Expertise and EU Priorities
WIISE positions itself not merely as a service provider, but as a strategic regulatory partner that ensures technical research translates into market-ready reality. Our expertise is specifically mapped to the pillars of the EU Green Deal and Horizon Europe Thematic Clusters (2025-2027):
| Horizon Europe Cluster / Mission | WIISE Strategic Contribution | Proven Experience |
| Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment | Novel Food & Protein Transition: Strategic management of the authorization process for unconventional sources, transforming R&D breakthroughs into legally marketable food products. | ProFuture / CAMELMILK |
| Cluster 6: Circular Economy and Bioeconomy Sectors | Upcycling & Side-stream Valorization: Defining the legal status of secondary raw materials and ensuring safety compliance for the re-entry of “waste” into the food and feed chain. | WASTELESS / EcoeFISHent |
| Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space (Bio-based Industries) | Sustainable Materials & MOCA: Regulatory validation of bio-based and biodegradable packaging, ensuring chemical safety and compliance for food-contact applications. | EcoeFISHent |
| EU Mission: Restore our Ocean and Waters | Blue Bio-resources & Circularity: Legal architecture for the extraction of high-value compounds from marine side-streams and the regulatory tracking of recycled fishing gear. | EcoeFISHent |
| EU Mission: A Soil Deal for Europe | Waste-to-Fertilizer Frameworks: Navigating the complex EU Fertilising Products Regulation to enable the safe use of circular bio-nutrients in agriculture. | WASTELESS |
WIISE value for future consortia
WIISE provides future consortia with a strategic “Regulatory-by-Design” advantage, ensuring that technical breakthroughs reach the market without legal delays. By integrating compliance—from Novel Food dossiers to Circular Economy logistics—into the early stages of R&D, we maximize the project’s Impact score and de-risk the transition from lab to shelf. Our presence ensures Legal Scalability and high-level visibility through our proprietary dissemination platforms, transforming complex research into compliant, profitable, and replicable industrial realities across the European Union.
