If the result of three years of Borderless Biobased Education (BBE) had to be summed up in a single word it would be ‘cooperation’. This was evident during the BBE concluding conference in Dordrecht, The Netherlands on 10 October.

The hydrogen star as a key to a sustainable society is rapidly rising. For industrial processes, storage, mobility and the developed environment, the blue, green and yellow versions seem virtually indispensable. The question is whether things are progressing fast enough and how hydrogen relates to the biobased economy.

Are SMEs too small to participate in the ‘large-scale’ bio-economy? Not if the Bio Cooperative can help it. This organisation in the Northern Netherlands represents companies that together generate some 1,000 FTEs in employment in the green economy. “This is a respectable size. It gives us visibility and makes us a full-fledged partner for the chemical industry, for example, as well as other industries in the circular and biobased economy,” says Ton Vries, member of the board of the Bio Cooperative and Director of Syncom.