The total available budget is €120 million for project proposals on these 12 topics:
Innovation Actions
- Biogenic carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) for circular biobased products (€10 million)
- Cooperative business models for the sustainable mobilisation and valorisation of agricultural residues, by-products and waste in rural areas (€10 million)
- Cost-effective production routes to bio-based alternatives to fossil-based chemical building blocks (€12 million)
- Co-processing of mixed biobased waste streams (€12 million)
Innovation actions – flagships:
- Maximum valorisation of sustainably extracted bio-based raw materials in a biorefinery that produces multiple products, generates no waste and causes no pollution (€14 million)
- Alternative sources of food and/or feed ingredients with high added value (€14 million)
Research and innovation actions
- High-quality biobased polymers for market applications with stringent requirements (€9 million)
- Biobased coatings, barriers, binders and adhesives (€9 million)
- Circular-by-design biobased materials to improve the circularity of complex structures (€9 million)
- Proteins from alternative and unconventional sources (€9 million)
- Sustainable fibres as feedstock for biorefineries (€9 million)
Coordination and support actions
- Development and validation of environmental sustainability and circularity monitoring systems: collection of best practices and benchmarks (€3 million)
These topics are described in detail in the CBE JU Annual Programme (pdf). For more information, please visit the CBE JU website.
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