Category: Events

LIFT Webinars – Shaping the innovation ecosystem for the Bioeconomy

Posted on 18/03/2020 by Louis Ferrini

Join a series of four thematic webinars across March and April, organized by the BBI JU funded projects LIFT, UrBioFuture, CELEBIO, in collaboration with BIOVOICES, Biobridges and the European Bioeconomy Network, to provide recommendations and Actionable Knowledge for quadruple helix stakeholders.

The thematic webinars will take place every Wednesday from the 25 of March 2020 and are expected to stimulate the discussion toward the BBI JU Info day (22 April 2020 https://www.bbi-europe.eu/events/bbi-ju-info-day-2020), though the following questions:

• What are the challenges to be addressed for the creation of an innovation ecosystem for the Bioeconomy?
• What are the main results of the Coordination and Support Actions funded in the last years?
• What gaps should be bridged?
• What are the recommendations?

The webinars will deliver the main results stemming from assessing more than 60 EU-funded projects, scouting more than 250 project documents, interviewing some 40 project coordinators and running four workshops involving 38 projects during the BBI JU Stakeholder Forum.

How to participate? You can participate to a single webinar, based on your specific interest or to all of them. Please let us know, registering HERE.

The participants will be able to contribute to the discussion? Sure! We encourage this! The participants will be able to contribute realtime using ICT platforms and tools made available by the organizers. LIFT will integrate the outcomes of this discussion in the final recommendations of the project.

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2020-03-25

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2020-04-15

How to develope bioeconomy online ?

Posted on 18/03/2020 by Riikka Kumpulainen

How to develop bioeconomy online ?

Current world events have directed us more and more to online working from home and this has created a growing need for alternative solutions for working. How about in the field of bioeconomy ? How can you do transnational innovation and development work if travelling is out of options ?

Interreg Baltic Sea funded RDI2CluB -project has a one solution: an online platform for open bioeconomy innovation – Biobord.eu

Biobord’s mission is to bring together bioeconomy developers to a joint table to solve global and local challenges with bioeconomy innovations. Biobord connects bioeconomy innovation networks around the Baltic Sea Region to share ideas, find partners and work together to create business opportunities. Together we build knowledge and raise awareness on sustainable and viable bioeconomy business potential in Baltic Sea Region.

Biobord offers an open discussion forum that includes matchmaking possibilities, transnational networking, knowledge sharing, joint innovation, a place to announce bioeconomy webinars and many other ways to co-operate with our growing network.

The transnational network consists at this moment of six regions around Baltic Sea Region: Finland, Norway, Poland, Latvia, Estonia and as a latest addition Sweden. Biobord has a vast amount of knowledge from many different fields of bioeconomy, and there are members representing all aspects (local authorities, SME’s …). The network and its knowledge, online tools and the open innovation atmosphere is now in you use!

Registering is easy and doesn’t cost a thing.

Biobord can be used anywhere and anytime with a computer or a mobile device, all you need is an online connection. Perhaps, it is time to move the bioeconomy innovation to an online form as well ?

Contacts:
Riikka Kumpulainen
Project Manager RDI2CluB
The Institute of Bioeconomy, Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences
riikka.kumpulainen@jamk.fi
Biobord: @riikkakumpulainen

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2020-03-18

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2020-03-18

KETBIO BIOTECH EVENTS coming soon

Posted on 17/03/2020 by Sylvia Schreiber

Let`s meet online for biotech

KETBIO offers a series of virtual events

WEBINAR: Earthworms, water fleas and bacteria: the future of decentralised wastewater treatment – 18 March 2020, 03:00 pm (CET)

Register: https:// www. ketbio.eu/resource?id=6851&app=info

KETBIO ONLINE MARKETPLACE: Find partners – launch offers & requests – listen 19 March 2020, 10.00 am – 03.00 pm (CET) –

Register: https://www.ketbio.eu/collaboration?id=6826&app=info

WEBINAR: From wastewater to new bioeconomy values using innovative bio-based solutions- 24 March 2020, 11.00 am CET –

Register: https://ketbio.eu/resource?id=6712&app=info

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2020-03-18

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2020-03-24

Bio-economy Research2Market: Crossing the valley of death hand-in-hand with a pilot plant

Posted on 19/02/202018/03/2020 by Louis Ferrini

Due to the recent problems of the spread of the #COVID19, the Biovoices MML workshop has been postponed. Save the new date: 30 June 2020 | Ghent, Belgium

The main objective of the workshop, organised by the BIOVOICES and BBEU Pilot Plant, is the identification of needs and actions to fill existing gaps in the bio-based products development from laboratories to market. In general, SMEs and start-ups working in the development of promising bio-based solutions or processes need to establish partnerships to reach successfully the market. Testing activities in operational environment, demonstration at large scale, compliance with existing standards and regulations, consumers’ acceptability, financial resources for the product industrialisation are some of the issues that companies have to face in the scaling-up stage. BBEU Pilot Plant has developed good practices to help companies in crossing the “valley of the death”, and can also help them in establishing partnerships, networking with various stakeholders, etc. Speakers – representing quadruple helix stakeholders – will address the topic from their different perspectives presenting best practices and highlighting existing challenges and barriers. Thanks to the active participation of the audience, involved both in the roundtable through interactive tools and in the following MML workshop, the event will co-create and generate ideas to improve the bio-based products marketability. Recommendations collected will be part of the policy brief that will be presented to the European Commission and the European Parliament by the end of the project (December 2020). Finally, participants will have the occasion to concretely understand the opportunities that a pilot plant can offer thanks to the site visite of the BBEU Pilot Plant.

More info and agenda:

https://www.biovoices-platform.eu/registeredarea/mmls/viewMml/6428

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bio-economy-research2market-crossing-the-valley-of-death-hand-in-hand-with-a-pilot-plant-tickets-94190186383

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2020-04-23

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2020-04-23

Registration open for the BBI JU Info Day 2020

Posted on 17/02/202018/03/2020 by Louis Ferrini

IMPORTANT Due to the recent problems of the spread of the #COVID19, the BBI JU Info Day will take place on 22 April 2020 ONLINE.

It will present the 2020 call for proposals and give participants the opportunity to hold pre-arranged face-to-face meetings. There will be a lot of networking opportunities throughout the day.

The seventh BBI JU Info Day will present the 2020 call for proposals and give participants the opportunity to hold pre-arranged face-to-face meetings.

Throughout the day, the BBI JU’s Programme Office staff will be available to answer questions about the application process and call procedures. The participants will also have the opportunity to speak to representatives from BBI JU’s founding partners and Member States, as well as exchange views with entities in synergy with BBI JU.

There will be plenty of informal networking opportunities throughout the event.

Consult the draft event agenda

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2020-04-22

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2020-04-22

Enabling H2020 Project Webinar

Posted on 12/02/2020 by Antigone Anikolaidi

In the upcoming Enabling Webinar the Enabling partners EEE, EPC and invited guest speakers will discuss the role and potential of companies and processing industries in the current national bioeconomies of Austria and Germany.

Visit the Enabling website for more information on the project: https://www.enabling-project.com/.

Please note the webinar will be in German

Registrations for the event at leifert@e-p-c.de

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2020-02-18

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2020-02-18

INVITATION TO THE CONFERENCE FOR BIOEAST AS A DRIVING FORCE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE EUROPEAN GREEN DEAL

Posted on 12/02/202012/02/2020 by Louis Ferrini

Venue: Permanent Representation of the Slovak Republic to the EU, Avenue de Cortenbergh 79, 1000 Brussels

The European Commission announced an ambitious roadmap to tackle the challenges ahead of us. The “European Green Deal” is designed in such a way that no individual nor any region should be left behind the great transformation. The governmental initiative for knowledge-based agriculture, aquaculture, and forestry in the bioeconomy – BIOEAST, of 11 Central and Eastern European member states could play a key role in helping to form the necessary partnerships, to join forces in developing needs, priorities and to work together at the European level in order to achieve the common objectives.

The high-level conference on the 1^st day aims to gather key political figures (state secretary level), ministry officials, policymakers, researchers, academia and other stakeholders involved in different parts of the BIOEAST environment to inform them about emerging policy developments and to discuss key priorities at the European level. Moreover, the aim is also to inform the EU institutions and respective officers dealing with the countries from the macro-region about the BIOEAST potential.

The conference agenda and concept note are available at the following link: BIOEAST Conference and TWG agendas & Concept note.

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2020-02-20

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2020-02-21

KETBIO_biotech newspoint #2 – get your copy

Posted on 11/02/202019/02/2020 by Sylvia Schreiber

KETBIO`s newspoint #2: Exciting outlooks for plastic recycling – Hints for biotech innovators – new newsletter is out

What`s on in the European white, green and blue biotechnologies ? What outlooks for plastic recycling and its biotech circular solutions ? KETBIO, the biotech transfer cluster, has just issued its second newsletter edition, the KETBIO newspoint # 2. It`s a 20+ pages e-magazine at your hand. Not to forget: with the full biotech conference calender for all of 2020. The newsletter latest edition is out for a free subscription – via the KETBIO website: https://ketbio.eu/KETBIOChannels

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2020-02-11

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2020-06-17

ENABLING biomass trade platform

Posted on 07/02/2020 by Zusepe Elias Zidda

The ENABLING Biomass Trade Platform is an online venue where biomass producers and biomass
processors can meet to exchange residues generated by their operations. Biomass suppliers, companies producing biobased products as well as organizations offering biomass analysis, process’ LCA, business plan and other services, are all strongly invited to register to the platform to offer or request products and services.

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2020-02-07

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2020-02-29

Bio-based products from fast pyrolysis oil (webinar)

Posted on 06/02/2020 by James Ling

20 February 2020, 11:00 – 12:15 CET

SUMMARY

Fast pyrolysis technology can convert a wide range of difficult-to-handle biomass into a clean and uniform bio-oil, which is easy to store and transport.

Most applications have so far focused on the use of pyrolysis oil for energy purposes, but the Horizon 2020 project Bio4Products has developed a technology to divide pyrolysis oil into multiple fractions that could be used for material applications.

Many new products could be developed from pyrolysis oil, and this webinar will introduce some of the latest results from innovative companies and collaborations in Europe.

REGISTRATION

To gain access to the webinar please register via this link.

SPEAKERS

Hans Heeres, BTG Biomass Technology Group – Thermochemical fractionation of pyrolysis oil – a recap

Melike Bayram, Hexion – Resins and moulding compounds from pyrolytic lignin

Hans Hoydonckx, TransFurans Chemicals – Moulding resins and wood modification formulations from pyrolytic sugars

Adam Turi, Foreco – FaunaWood – wood modification with wood

Moderator: James Ling, Greenovate! Europe

The webinar is the third in a series called ‘From biomass to bio-based products’. You can catch up on the previous webinars on biomass and fast pyrolysis here.

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2020-02-20

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2020-02-20