The BIOrescue project (‘Enhanced bioconversion of agricultural residues through cascading use’) aims to develop innovative conversion processes to create bio-based products from mushroom compost.The project will bring together a multidisciplinary team of eleven partners, comprised of one large company, several SMEs, two universities and two research institutes. Together they will develop a new biorefinery process that will allow the conversion of mushroom compost into innovative bio-based products such as bio-pesticides, bio-degradable nanocarriers for drug or fertiliser encapsulation and bio-based horticultural fertilisers.