Research

Each year, EUBCE brings together the greatest minds and latest advancements in biomass, with the aim of accelerating research and market uptake across the globe. During the conference, over 2,000 experts from both academia and industry share and discuss groundbreaking ideas, technologies, applications, and solutions for the sourcing, production, and utility of biomass.

The Global Bioeconomy Summit is organized by the International Advisory Council on Global Bioeconomy (IACGB. On this website you’ll find comprehensive media information, publications and press releases related to the GBS2020.

The European Bioeconomy University (EBU) seeks to develop a mechanism to enhance bioeconomy students’ cross-sectoral mindset. Thanks to a shared platform for online learning and study tours, students will be able to include in their studies courses offered by all EBU member universities. This line of collaboration seeks to improve students’ cross-sectoral understanding of research subjects and business activities. Successful completion of the study module will be recognised with a certificate issued by the EBU.

Once the crops are planted, grown and harvested, many agricultural facilities sit unused. But converting them into bioproduction plants could extend their activity year-round - meaning more money for farmers and agriculture-based industries.

The European Commission has published a new factsheet emphasising the importance of Europe's bioeonomy to achieving the EU Green Deal.

An estimated 150 million tonnes of plastic waste are floating around the oceans. It is high time for alternative materials – biopolymers could help. And they can do much more than that.

The objective of the National Energy Technology Cluster (CTN) which, in its fourth year of life, has reached 75 associates, is studying, developing and transferring innovative technologies, devices, products and services to strengthen sustainability and competitiveness of Italian companies in the energy sectors of greatest interest, involving public and private stakeholders.

A student team presents a car made almost entirely out of waste.

Carbon Farming is a pioneering landscape project, supported by EIT Climate-KIC, which uses a systemic approach to increase soil carbon sequestration (SCS), while also considering the needs of multiple stakeholders and partners, as well as local context. It currently has pilots in France and Switzerland.

ENEA has developed an innovative, fast and low-cost biotechnological method to produce crocins, picrocrocins and safranal in large quantities. They are molecules beneficial to humans and of great interest for the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries but very scarce in nature.

The core theme for Science Week 2020 is ‘Choosing our Future’; focusing on how science can improve our lives in the future, and in the present.

EU research project with the participation of the University of Hohenheim searches for new, sustainable food additives and packaging materials from seaweeds and seagrasses.

The paper explains how BBI JU has contributed to a systemic change in the European bio-based industries sector. The authors also explain the functioning of this public-private partnership and its major achievements.

This call aims to support innovative, collaborative pan-European, R&D&I projects, which should contribute to safe, environmentally friendly, reliable and economical bioenergy production. The focus is on technology readiness levels 2-7 (at the end of the funded project). The projects should address new implementation pathways supporting decarbonisation of industry and demonstration of best practice examples. Furthermore, the linkage to circular economy especially in industry sectors has to be stressed more, e.g. by using biomass based waste as fuel or feedstock.

The BioMonitor project has published a series of scientific papers that analyses Europe’s bioeconomy strategy in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and provide different policy scenarios in 30 years’ time.

The European research project REFRESH has examined how private and public stakeholders can work together to turn food waste into worthwhile commodities.

For Eastern Africa, an innovation-driven bioeconomy is seen as a viable pathway towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals 2030, and a significant contributor towards the African Union’s Agenda 2063 of a knowledge-based, innovation-led African economy.

Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI and from ETH Zurich want to make so-called zeolites more efficient. The classic zeolites, they assert, would even have the potential to make a bioeconomy based on renewable resources possible.

IFIB 2020 will be both physical and digital

European Research and Innovation Days is the European Commission’s annual flagship event, bringing together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and citizens to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond.