Corona does not stop the student competition BISC-E. On the contrary, the crisis gives students extra time to work on their biobased product or process. TKI-BBE organizes a digital kick-off meeting on Wednesday 15 April at 3:00 PM.

The Challenge

All teams develop a bio-based innovation (product or process) and present their ideas via a participation file and a presentation to a jury of experts from industry and science. The presentation has to be accompanied by a few supporting documents explaining sustainability, technical feasibility and economic viability of your innovation.

The jury will assess these teams via an online preselection. The 3 best teams will be selected for the Belgian finals. Teams who continue through to the finals will have to submit a complete dossier. This dossier consists of the original participation file and presentation, as well as an updated version of the participation file and presentation based on the feedback of the jury that was given during the preselection and bsed on the coaching over the summer. In addition, the group needs to explain their progress and decision making in an extra explanatory letter to the jury.

All rules can be found in this document.

For Who?

The challenge is open for all BSc and MSc students. Due to the multidisciplinary character of the challenge it is recommended to embody multiple disciplines in your team, of which exact science should be one. Team members can come from different institutions.

Everybody wins

Participating in BISC-E will give you valuable experience in the emerging bio-based work field, in developing a new product or process with all its aspects and in presenting innovative ideas for a panel of experts. On top of that there are great prizes to be won.

How to apply

To register for the BISC-E, participants need to fill out this form with your presentation and submit it before 12 june 2020.

To be eligible for the competition you need:

 – A team name

– A team manager (one of the student team members)

– A supervisor

– Fill out the participation form

– Personal details of the team members

What

The student teams are asked to develop a bio-based product or bio-based process that could be integrated in the current (or near future) economy.

A bio-based product is a product composed in whole, or for a significant part, of biological material derived from renewable biological sources, including plant, animal or marine materials. Where product is defined as: substance, mixture of substances, material or object resulting from a production process, this can be an intermediate, material, semi-finished or final product.

Two tracks can be followed.

1. For innovation concerning a bio-based product.

2. For innovations leading to a bio-based process or bio-based improvements of a process step. Also services or other innovations strongly advancing the bio-based economy not leading to a touchable prototype product that can be presented fall in this category.

Timeline

12 June 2020 – Submission Deadline

7-8 July 2020 – Online Preselection

1 October – Belgian Finals

Prizes

First prize  €1000

Second prize €500

Third prize €250

Source: https://www.ugent.be/greenchem/en/recentactivities/biobasedstudentchallenge.htm

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The Alliance for Skills and Knowledge to Widen Food Sector-related Open Innovation, Optimization and Development (ASKFOOD, www.askfood.net ), aims at setting, designing and developing tools and training actions and to leverage and boost innovation by strengthening the collaboration and cooperation among all the actors and stakeholders of the food related sectors.

In this workshop, experts from academia and organizations will present new trends and scenarios in the food-related sectors highlighting the future skills and competences to match the future job and market and business request.

Innovative training and educational methods to promote the development of entrepreneurial and professional skills will be presented.

Participants will have the opportunity to discuss future scenarios, innovative cooperation and networking activities that can be developed to promote the academia-business interaction towards the innovation of the food sector.

Free Registration

To register click here:

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2645617797197338635

The bioeconomy has great potential to reduce our dependence on non-renewable, unsustainable resources, and help achieve carbon neutrality. In the future more and more everyday products will be made from materials of biological origin.

But is ‘bio-based’ always sustainable? How should product sustainability be measured? And do consumers care either way?

This webinar will aim to provide some answers, with presentations from experts in the bio-based sector.

AGENDA AND REGISTRATION

Visit: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1612551854702397197

BIO4PRODUCTS PROJECT

This webinar is being organised by Greenovate! Europe as part of the Bio4Products project, which is testing the feasibility of a fast pyrolysis based biorefinery concept. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 723070.

The webinar is the fourth and final webinar in the series ‘From biomass to bio-based products’. You can re-watch the previous webinars here: https://youtu.be/39P7Sb3IkHg