Bridging divides, building futures.
The Protein Project unites Europe’s food voices to seize the opportunity of protein diversification.
Europe’s food system is stalled by polarization.
Important goals like supporting farmer livelihoods, maintaining the competitiveness of European businesses, protecting the environment, improving public health or ensuring animal welfare are frequently presented as trade-offs rather than opportunities for much-needed solutions that unite instead of divide.
The Protein Project breaks the stalemate.
We convene broad coalitions of farmers, food companies, civil society, policymakers and researchers to develop practical solutions that everyone can support. Our goal: advancing policies that diversify the way Europe produces and consumes proteins – embracing animal, plant and novel foods. By co-creating solutions focusing on economic and farmer prosperity as well as public and planetary health, we're contributing to a future of food that works for all.
Our approach
We bridge policy divides through pragmatic action in three key areas.
Value chain taskforces
We co-create industrial roadmaps for promising, protein value chains, articulate a strong business case and advocate jointly towards policy makers.
Broadened research
We coordinate and co-author reports on the role of protein diversification in widely shared priorities such as competitiveness, farmer income, health, and strategic autonomy.
Policy depolarisation
We create neutral forums to talk about the future of proteins and food in the European Parliament and Council, enabling cross-party collaboration.