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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…
“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…
BISC-E stimulates biobased entrepreneurship among students
Some invent grand theoretical concepts, such as cultivating seaweed around offshore wind parks to produce biogas.…
“This competition was our ticket to the business world”
Since the Bio-based Industries Consortium 'adopted' the international student competition BISC-E in 2019, the number of…
Pretreatment as essential intermediate step
‘We are concentrating at Brightlands Campus Greenport Venlo initially on healthy and safe food, including residual…
Master of Biobased Materials: passion and drive
The first class of the Master of Biobased Materials graduated in mid-July. At the festive ceremony…
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Sustainable startups compete for AtlasInvest Entrepreneurship Grant
The University Fund Wageningen is awarding the two AtlasInvest Entrepreneurship Grants for the fourth time this…
ReThink Waste challenge 2023 launched
The ReThink Waste challenge is up and running! In Wageningen (Netherlands) last week, 27 student teams…
Students rise to the challenge: a world without waste
Zero waste, a sustainable world without waste, that is the ambition of the ReThink Waste Challenge.…
Students contributing to circular biobased economy
With the Rething Waste Student Challenge, Wageningen University & Research challenges students to develop a circular…
Italian student team wins BISC-E 2022 with rubber from yeast
Team GENAB from Italy has won the 2022 edition of BIC’s European Biobased Student Innovation Challenge…
Upstream Festival Rotterdam for students and scale-ups
Upstream is a multi-day festival in Rotterdam, where scale-up founders, investors, students, policy makers and corporates…
