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Dirk Carrez

Helping society understand the bioeconomy is part of the change needed

28 / 03 / 2023

The message about the urgent need for action to deal with the threats to the environment…

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Dirk Carrez

Getting the public invested in the bio-based industries by raising awareness

22 / 08 / 2022

With record-breaking heatwaves across Europe this summer, the focus on climate change and the need to…

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Dirk Carrez

EU Bioeconomy Strategy Progress Report outlines the contribution of the bio-based industry

15 / 06 / 2022

The European Commission recently published the Bioeconomy Strategy Progress Report (09/06/22) to track the progress of…

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Marco Rupp

Making it easier to find regional funding for bio-based businesses

30 / 05 / 2022

Regions play an important role in further developing the bio-based economy in Europe, as they can…

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Marco Rupp

The bio-economy has all the ingredients

01 / 04 / 2022

The war in Ukraine has sharpened European leaders’ focus on finding the best way to build…

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Dirk Carrez

Moving towards a Circular Biobased Europe

23 / 04 / 2020

We have recently published the last annual call of the current Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI…


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Rubber
05:30

Rubber from yeast, activated carbon from plums and insoles from mycelium

The 2022 Bio-based Innovation Student Challenge Europe (BISC-E) Finals were a close call. Student teams competed…

Pierre Gielen

Kelp seaweed forest underwater
07:35

The future of marine and aquatic biomass in Europe

When the Bio-based Industries Consortium was launched in 2012, marine and aquatic biomass was barely discussed.…

Pierre Gielen

Ocean waves
05:59

“The most sustainable biomass comes from the sea”

The world's oceans, rivers and lakes are a promising renewable source of biomass. Fish and shellfish…

Pierre Gielen

Ducks swimming in duckweed
01:54:18

“Combining science with a business case is a valuable experience”

A leather-like material from wastewater, packing peanuts from bread and cleaning swimming water with duckweed: participants…

Pierre Gielen

Interconnected Europe
03:03

Live event in Brussels brings biobased value chains together

The biobased community in Europe must grow into a lively ecosystem, where parties find each other…

Pierre Gielen

LoafFoam, winners BISC-E Belgium 2021
05:07

BISC-E stimulates biobased entrepreneurship among students

Some invent grand theoretical concepts, such as cultivating seaweed around offshore wind parks to produce biogas.…

Pierre Gielen


News

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Brussels by night
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Almost 5x the available budget requested in 2nd CBE JU Call

The second CBE JU Call has closed with 162 applications submitted. A total of more than…

Editorial office / Brussels

UPM Biorefinery Finland
01:09

CBE JU shows its contribution to the EU Green Deal

CBE JU has published a new set of infographics showing the joint undertaking’s support for the…

Editorial office / Brussels

EUBCE 2023
01:01

Review of the highlights of EUBCE 2023

It has been almost two months since the 31st European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (EUBCE 2023)…

Editorial office / Brussels

Polish countryside
01:24

New Country Report about Poland released

Poland’s strong industries in the primary and chemical sectors, combined with its well-organised innovation support infrastructure…

Editorial office / Brussels

Biocircularcities meeting
01:40

Webinar series about the potential of unexploited biobased waste streams

This summer the European BIOCIRCULARCITIES project - a CBE JU funded project - is coming behind…

Editorial office / Brussels

Europa
01:05

First CBE JU-funded projects receive €116 million

Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) has signed its first grant agreements with 21 project…

Editorial office / Brussels