The project aims to facilitate companies (especially small and medium, SMEs) belonging to supply chains in the dairy sector to foster the market uptake of energy efficiency measures including the use of renewables and the deployment of heat pumps at the value chain level, moreover, the project will also significantly contribute to the reduction of fossil fuels dependency fast forwarding energy transition.

The dairy sector is predominantly organized in cooperatives, which hold the majority of the market share which makes relevant the necessity for cooperation and coordination between different actors and increases the potential of a value chain approach.