Author: Anke Schwarzenberger

Renewable Materials Conference 2025 with project booths by 3-CO, BioReCer and Star4bbs

Renewable Materials Conference 2025 with project booths by 3-CO, BioReCer and Star4bbs

In just a few years, the Renewable Materials Conference (RMC) has established itself as the international meeting place for innovators, companies and brands, investors and policymakers to develop and shape the future renewable carbon economy. As in previous years, the conference organiser nova-Institute expects 400-500 participants from around the world.

The extraction of fossil resources from the ground and their use in the energy and chemical sectors is by far the largest contributor to human-made climate change, accounting for 90% of GHG emissions. While in the energy sector decarbonisation is the way forward, the only option for the chemicals and plastics sectors is to change the carbon source from fossil to renewable carbon: The use of biomass, CO₂ and recycling is the only way forward.

RMC 2025 aims to provide answers to pressing questions for suppliers and brands, investors and policymakers: How to defossilise the chemical industry and remain competitive? How to meet the demand for fossil-free plastics? How to create sustainable carbon cycles? What role will biodegradation play in the circular economy?

In a project booth, the Horizon Europe projects (tackling bio-based certification) 3-CO, BioReCer and Star4bbs  will present their latest findings.

 

From date
2025-09-22
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2025-09-24
Free webinar: Digital Solutions for a Bio-Based Future – Empowering Industry and Consumers

Free webinar: Digital Solutions for a Bio-Based Future – Empowering Industry and Consumers

Digital innovation can play a crucial role in strengthening the competitiveness of bio-based feedstocks and products in the European bioeconomy. By providing consumers and industry with essential information on sustainability and circularity criteria of bio-based products and their value chains, digital solutions and tools improve the tracking and traceability of biological feedstocks from their origin to a final product. These digital tools offer valuable insights into a wide range of sustainability criteria, e.g., climate impacts, environmental effects on soil, water and air quality and technical performance. By covering these key areas, digital tools enable a holistic understanding of the sustainability performance of bio-based products and processes throughout their lifecycle.

Digital solutions are set to boost the European bioeconomy by providing critical information on feedstock tracking, sustainability, and certification for bio-based products.

To showcase these advances, a free webinar hosted by Horizon Europe projects 3-CO and BioReCer will introduce several innovative digital tools.

Scheduled for April 8, 2025, from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM CET, the event offers an excellent opportunity to understand the future of digital technologies in the bioeconomy. Four tools developed by EU-funded projects will be presented and made available to users in the near future.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_lP06EuYaQ0arvrof5ZnEAw

Read more on the webinar content, the participating EU-projects and the speakers here

From date
2025-04-08
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2025-04-08
Certification in bio-based construction

Certification in bio-based construction

On 25 February 2025 at 13:00-14:30 CEST the EU-funded projects BioReCer and 3-CO will be hosting their next webinar focusing on bio-based construction materials and certification.
This time the projects welcome the following speakers:
  • Martin Behrens (National Agency for Regrowing Resources, FNR)
  • Sergiy Kovalenkov (Hempire)
  • Hein van Tuijl (EPEA Benelux)
Find more information on the webinar and the registration link here: https://biorecer.eu/events/
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2025-02-25
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2025-02-25
Labels and certification for bio-based products: Counteracting greenwashing and increasing consumer trust

Labels and certification for bio-based products: Counteracting greenwashing and increasing consumer trust

The second episode of the certification webinar series by the Horizon Europe projects BioReCer (https://biorecer.eu/) and 3-CO (https://3co-project.eu/) will tackle two intertwined topics:
DIN CERTCO will give an introduction into certification in general and especially bio-based certification. Both bio-based and general certifications play a vital role in fostering innovation, ensuring product integrity. Furthermore, bio-based certification is a crucial process that verifies the bio-based carbon content of products and materials. Here, certification promotes the use of renewable resources and provides transparency and trust for consumers and businesses.
The presentation by ECOS picks up on labelling and certification schemes for bio-based products, and will present the variables determining consumer trust and thus shaping consumer behaviour. These variables include sustainability criteria, label design, the level of familiarity with labels by consumers and many more.
The 3-CO and BioReCer team kindly welcomes the following speakers:
  • Berit Topolinski (DIN CERTCO, the certification body of TÜV Rheinland Group)
  • Margaux Le Gallou (ECOS – Environmental Coalition on Standards)

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_noEh2J-RQrKsgTde3-Wh-w#/registration

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2024-12-13
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2024-12-13
Zoom Event: Advancing Bio-Based Products Certification: A Collaborative Path Towards Sustainability

Zoom Event: Advancing Bio-Based Products Certification: A Collaborative Path Towards Sustainability

We are pleased to invite you to the Second Multi-Stakeholder Online Meeting of the BioReCer project, titled “Advancing Bio-Based Products Certification: A Collaborative Path Towards Sustainability”, taking place on November 27, 2024, from 15:00 to 16:30 CET.

This past year has seen significant progress and developments of the Horizon Europe project BioReCer that will greatly enhance the certification of bio-based products. We would love to share these advancements with you and gather your valuable feedback. In addition, we will inform participants about the Biomass Utilisation Factor, a new metric combining cascading use and production efficiency into one indicator to investigate the circularity of materials for the circular bioeconomy. We also value your input for an upcoming policy brief that aims to influence policymakers, helping shape the EU policy of tomorrow.

As you may know, BioReCer strengthens certification schemes to boost the acceptance of bio-based feedstock and products from biological waste, both by industry and consumers, and to enhance the competitiveness of Europe’s bio-based economy. Our goal is to address the needs of all stakeholders across the bio-based product value chain. To succeed, the project depends on the input and collaboration of a broad range of stakeholders, including: Producers and processors of bio-based feedstock, Bio-based industries, Certification Bodies, Policy Makers, Scientists, Consumers and their associations…

Your participation is crucial in driving the EU’s transition toward a more sustainable economy. This event will give you the opportunity to stay informed about the project’s achievements, monitor its progress, and see how your input can shape its future development.

The detailed agenda will be available shortly, but we encourage you to save your place now by registering [here]!

Read more on BioReCer here:

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2024-11-27
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2024-11-27
Webinar: Potential and challenges of certification and development of new labels

Webinar: Potential and challenges of certification and development of new labels

Are you a member of the (bio-based) industry, a label and certification schemes holder, a policy maker or part of a consumer association? Then participate in the first joined webinar by the Horizon Europe projects 3-CO and BioReCer on November 5th 2024, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm (CET). The webinar will address the vital topic of new certifications and labels for the renewable, and especially bio-based, economy.

Certification and labelling play a crucial role in empowering consumers to make informed and sustainable purchasing decisions by impeding greenwashing and instead providing credible and reliable sustainability information. Furthermore, they facilitate the tracking and traceability of biological and other renewable feedstock throughout value chains, fostering transparency and accountability among stakeholders of the industry. However, there are a lot of challenges for current certification and labelling schemes, since they are often not sufficiently laid-out for bio-based and other renewable products and their value-chains.

In this webinar, REDcert and TÜV AUSTRIA will show their sytems for sustainability certification and will present new or soon to be published label and certification schemes (LCS) that are relevant for the bio-based economy. The speakers will talk about challenges on the way to the final label, and which gaps will be closed.

Join us on November the 5th and listen to the two presentations by REDcert and TÜV AUSTRIA. Together, we will explore their innovative new LCS that will support shaping a strong circular EU (bio)economy.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_nS69SWbtQmK6IRceByvF7Q#/registration

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Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

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2024-11-05
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2024-11-05