Once again, a French student team has won European finals of BISC-E. In this annual competition, student teams are challenged to find bio-based solutions to environmental, societal or economic problems.

Wuppertal in Germany hosted the Tech Tour Bio Based Industries 2024 Programme in November, one day before event sponsors Circular Valley held their annual forum at the same venue. Tech Tour brings innovative entrepreneurs seeking capital to scale up and produce their sustainable projects in contact with investors.

In the Dutch region of West Brabant, a lot of effort has been put into the research of plant-based construction materials for years. ‘We are now moving beyond the experimental phase,’ Dominique Hopmans observed during his opening speech of Natural Fibertastic 2024: the seventh edition already of the networking event of the Natural Fibre Application Centre (NAC) in Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands.