By Maria Beatriz Rosell and Dora Leitner, GEONARDO “Bioeconomy promises to foster the transition from a fossil-based linear economy to a more sustainable yet competitive bio-based economy, addressing environmental, social and economic issues alike. “Indeed the bioeconomy transition is high on the EU’s political agenda, as reflected in a number of documents, such as the…
The University of the Basque Country and Greenovate! Europe are glad to announce the launch of the SYMBIOREM project aiming to curb environmental pollution with innovative bioremediation processes. The presence of pollution in water and soil poses multiple risks to human, animal, and ecosystem health, contributing to diseases and biodiversity loss. The SYMBIOREM project (full…
6 July – 11:00-12:15 CET – Registration The current energy crisis represents a major challenge for Europe but also an opportunity to increase necessary efforts to accelerate the green transition and secure its energy autonomy. To face this unprecedented challenge, the European Commission has recently published its plan to accelerate the energy transition and lower…
Around 21% of the EU’s total surface area is covered by grassland, which makes grassland management a relevant activity for the maintenance of agro-ecosystems and rural economies. However, this resource is mostly left unused. To unlock this potential, the GO-GRASS project is supporting the production of sustainable grass-based products replacing existing fossil-based alternatives, such as…
In association with our member Geonardo we will host a webinar on 13 May looking at Urban Circular Bioeconomy Practices and the CEE region. This webinar is organised under the framework of the SCALIBUR Horizon 2020 project, with the objective to inform stakeholders, and especially municipalities, on the status of circular bioeconomy trends in selected…
Brussels, 24 March 2022 – The HOOP Network of cities and regions has been launched to facilitate exchange of knowledge and mutual learning among cities and regions willing to recover valuable resources from urban biowaste and wastewater. According to the EU Bioeconomy Strategy, “cities should become major circular bioeconomy hubs”, where biowaste is a feedstock…
Webinar – 23 March 2022, 12:00 CET Within the EU Green Deal, the European Commission has announced a mission to achieve 100 climate-neutral and smart European cities by 2030. These cities will act as experimentation and innovation hubs to enable all European cities to follow suit by 2050. Cities in the EU Horizon 2020 project…
The INN-PRESSME project will host an online workshop on 20 October 2021 on the topic of ‘Open Innovation Test Beds Workshop: Empowering SMEs to accelerate market access of nano-enabled biomaterials’. Open Innovation Test Beds (OITBs) are key elements in delivering the green and digital transition, increasing European competitive and technological leadership, supporting the move to…
RUBIZMO and LIVERUR, both funded under the Horizon 2020 Programme, will bring together a wide variety of stakeholders on 7 October 2021 to officially mark the end of the two projects. Register for the event here. While the projects are coming to an end, this event presents the opportunity to discuss and plan for the…
HOOP, VALUEWASTE, SCALIBUR and WaysTUP! are four active projects funded under the EU’s Horizon 2020 Programme that work to develop innovative solutions to transform urban biowaste and wastewater into new added-value products like feed, fertilisers, bioplastics, biopesticides, proteins and bioethanol. The projects started at different dates (2018, 2019 and 2020), use different technologies and processes,…
European-Canadian partnership for climate positive heat and power generation through improved biomass feedstock supply and innovative conversion technologies The EUCANWin! project held its kick-off meeting today, beginning its ambitious mission to improve forestry biomass harvesting, and develop more efficient conversion technologies in combination with CO2 capture. Climate change is widely recognised as the most significant…
15 partners from 7 EU countries will work together to transform waste from the poultry industry into bio-based products for agricultural applications. The European poultry sector generates 3.6 million tonnes of waste feathers each year, of which only around 25% are collected separately and valorised for feather meal and fertiliser applications. A new European funded…
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