The Bio-Based Industries Consortium (BIC) has launched a new digital bioeconomy partnering platform in cooperation with the European Committee of Regions (CoR). This is the first time a platform aims to connect the bio-based industry and European regions and help stimulate bio-based investments and create new local value chains. More than 50 regions across Europe are already participating.

The bio-economy starts on the fields. That is where the agricultural biomass originates. Active participation of the primary sectors in projects of the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) should therefore be obvious. Yet it is by no means self-evident everywhere, as research that BBI JU carried out last year shows.

The ambitious Green Deal of the new European Commission aims at a cleaner, circular future for Europe. What contribution can the biobased industry make to achieve this? How can the regions be better involved? And how will we deal with biowaste in Europe in the future?