Category: Events

BioBase4SME: Innovation Biocamp 2019

BioBase4SME: Innovation Biocamp 2019

Posted on by Tanja Meyer

pply now for a fully funded, specialist training for you and your business, worth €7000 (de-minimis value). Join other new, high-growth, bio-based businesses for an intensive, week-long course that will give you the tools you need to help you commercialise your idea and grow your company.

Each session of the training programme will start with a lecture from an expert in a key aspect of business growth followed by a group exercise mediated by an experienced facilitator. You will apply the learning from the session to your own company and pitch to investors at the end of the Biocamp.

What is included:

all teaching, lecturing and mentoring
investor pitch opportunity
…

How you will benefit:

mentoring sessions with successful business leaders and investors
masterclasses from experts in finance, regulation, risk and opportunity
live pitch to a panel of specialist investors, active in the sector
peer-to-peer learning and networking with biobased companies from across NW Europe

APPLY NOW!

Please download the application form and return your completed form to info@biovale.org

All Information to be found under NEWS:

From date
2019-05-05
To date
2019-05-10
Building sustainable value chains for the bio-based industry

Building sustainable value chains for the bio-based industry

Posted on by Bénédicte Julliard

From biomass production to commercialisation, multiple barriers need to be overcome for the market uptake of bio-based products in Europe. Within the BIOrescue project, partners have developed an innovative biorefinery concept to transform lignocellulosic biomass feedstock, including used mushroom compost, into novel bio-based products.

Looking towards the project’s end, the BIOrescue consortium is pleased to invite all interested stakeholders, including partners from other biorefinery projects, to join them in a dedicated workshop to be held in the morning of 28 February in Mainz, Germany, to discuss the challenges and opportunities arising from the exploitation of sustainable biomass sources in Europe for the commercialisation of new bio-based products.

To explore this topic, EU-funded projects and industry stakeholders will present the support measures implemented in terms of infrastructure development, standardisation and market uptake for bio-based products. In that sense, all participating partners will also be invited to pitch their concept and ideas for the development of the European bio-based industry and to present or discover inspirational examples of biorefinery projects at the occasion of the poster session organised during the coffee break.

Outcomes from the discussion will feed the BIOrescue project’s policy recommendations to support the development of a bio-based economy in the agro-food industry. These will be presented to a panel of policy makers at the project final event on 4 April 2019 in Brussels.

Join our workshop to exchange ideas and voice your opinion on the future of the European bio-based industry sector. Are you interested in pitching your biorefinery concept and / or presenting a poster to feed the discussions? You can indicate it in the registration form and seize this opportunity to network with your future partners. For more information, do not hesitate to have a look at the workshop agenda, and click here to register to the event.

From date
2019-02-28
To date
2019-02-28
Share your rural bioeconomy experience! ENRD calls for contributions

Share your rural bioeconomy experience! ENRD calls for contributions

Posted on by Louis Ferrini
Do you have a project, business and other initiatives contributing to rural development?
Send your examples of small and medium size businesses, social enterprises, public or private initiatives contributing to the development of rural bioeconomy value chains and clusters in rural areas – please fill in our short survey by 31 January 2019!

The examples will feed into an inventory of European rural bioeconomy initiatives that will be widely disseminated – browse through our collection so far.

From date
2018-12-19
To date
2019-01-31
BioCannDo Think Biobased Challenge for students

BioCannDo Think Biobased Challenge for students

Posted on by Louis Ferrini

Think Biobased Challenge

The Think Biobased Challenge invites European College or University students, to design Biobased educational material that students will never forget.
Help creating a better environment and win prizes just by doing so!

We are all on the verge of a transition to a world in which we want and need to be less dependent on fossil raw materials. In the transition to this world, we aim for an economy that runs on biomass as a raw material.
For this transition to a Biobased Economy we need brilliant minds in the future. The road there already starts in primary education (9-12 years old), secondary education (13-16 years old) and secondary vocational education (17-22 years old).

You are an European College or University student and we challenge you to develop innovative teaching materials that can be used to draw attention to the Biobased Economy. Not in a boring lesson, but in such a way that this learning experience can always stay with you. How cool is it when students throughout Europe get to work with a Biobased Lesson that you have created? Moreover, a total prize money of € 9.000,- will be divided among the best entrants!

https://www.coebbe.nl/wat-is-biobased/biobased-challenge/#1541774330512-96b79841-7b38

From date
2019-01-24
To date
2019-02-01
Sector Skills Alliances to tackle a skill gaps in a bioeconomy sector by developing a sectoral skills strategy – CALL FOR PROPOSALS – EAC/A03/2018

Sector Skills Alliances to tackle a skill gaps in a bioeconomy sector by developing a sectoral skills strategy – CALL FOR PROPOSALS – EAC/A03/2018

Posted on by Louis Ferrini

We have the pleasure to inform you about an ongoing call for proposals EAC/A03/2018 for Sector Skills Alliances for implementing a new strategic approach (“Blueprint”) to sectoral cooperation on skills “Blueprint for bioeconomy, new technologies & innovation in agriculture”. Please download the necessary information.

This call might be of interest to some of the Stakeholders that you communicate to. If you wish to send it out it is important to communicate it ASAP because the deadline for submission is on 28th of Feb.

Best Regards,

Bioeconomy Team

From date
2019-01-16
To date
2019-02-28
Market screening questionnaires in the Alpine region

Market screening questionnaires in the Alpine region

Posted on by Anna Bäuerle

The project AlpBioEco conducts a market analysis to investigate bioeconomical potentials of Walnuts, Apples and Herbs.

Support us as an expert on these value chains by answering our questionnaires!

Our questionaires for each value chain in several languages: https://www.alpine-space.eu/projects/alpbioeco/en/publications/downloads

Thanks for your support!

From date
2019-01-14
To date
2019-01-31
BioCannDo: 4th Educational Community of Practice Webinar

BioCannDo: 4th Educational Community of Practice Webinar

Posted on by Erik Lohse - BioCannDo project

Join BioCannDo for a webinar on Dec 06, 2018 at 1:00 PM CET.

Register now!

Are you involved in developing educational material concerning the bio-based economy and/or interested in the education of (new) professionals? Then you may want to engage with others that share your interest and join our webinar.

BioCannDo is about explaining the idea of the bioeconomy and of bio-based end-products in a clear and understandable language, in a scientifically correct manner, and connecting it to everyday life. Collaboration partners can share and learn about good practices in approaches and formats for communication to the general public.

What can you expect from the webinar:

This webinar will be the kick-off of the Bioeconomy Education Community of Practice. In this community of institutes we will share education materials and will discuss interesting topics from the field of bioeconomy. In the webinar three different networks of educational institutes will present themselves: a network with institutes in the east of Europe (Platform on Bioeconomy Education), a network of Dutch/Flemish institutes that cooperate in an Interreg project (Grenzeloos Biobased Onderwijs, in English: Borderless Biobased Education) and a Dutch nationwide network of educational institutes. The presentations will be focused on their ambitions and why/how they would like to connect to other networks and the Community of Practice in particular. You are kindly invited to join the Community of Practice that we will be setting up together.

Webinar agenda:

  • Explaining the Community of Practice – Han van Osch (The Netherlands)
  • Competition: The Think Biobased Challenge – Monique Bakker (The Netherlands)
  • Platform on Bioeconomy Education – George Sakellaris, (Czech Republic); Borderless Biobased Education – Erik Lammers, (The Netherlands/Flanders);Dutch nationwide Biobased network – Maurice van Londen (The Netherlands)

Interested? Check the BioCannDo website www.allthings.bio to learn more about BioCannDo and register now to join our 1-hour webinar on Thursday 6 December (13:00-14:00 CET).

After registering, you will receive a confirmation e-mail containing information about joining the webinar.

From date
2018-12-06
To date
2018-12-06
BioBase4SME Workshop: Adventure “Founding” – how to turn it into a success

BioBase4SME Workshop: Adventure “Founding” – how to turn it into a success

Posted on by Tanja Meyer

CLIB2021 e.V. lädt alle Gründerinnen und Gründer und solche, die über eine Gründung nachdenken, zum nächsten CLIB Forum Abenteuer Startup-Gründung – so wird’s erfolgreich ein. Am 06. Dezember werden wir von 16.00 h – 18.30 h im Maxhaus in Düsseldorf von verschiedenen Experten hören, was bei einer Gründung alles beachtet werden muss und welche Stolperfallen in der ersten Phase lauern. Neben Tipps zur Wahl der richtigen Rechtsform und Einblicken in die Finanzierungsmöglichkeiten von Start-Ups, werden auch Start-Up Berater aus dem Bereich der industriellen Biotechnologie und ein erfolgreicher Gründer selbst ihr Wissen mit uns teilen. Nach den Vorträgen können Fragen und Ideen auf dem nahegelegenen Weihnachtsmarkt von Düsseldorf diskutiert werden. Das Forum ist Teil des Interreg Nord-West-Europa Projektes BioBase4SME.

CLIB2021 e.V. freut sich auf alle Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmer. Wir ermutigen besonders junge Teilnehmer, die sich über das Thema Gründung einen ersten Überblick schaffen wollen, das Forum zu besuchen.

Programm:

16.00 h Begrüßung der Teilnehmer und Vorstellung des CLIB e.V. (Katrin Kriebs)

16.20 h Vorstellung des BioBase4SME Projektes (Tanja Meyer, Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant, project coordinator BioBase4SME)

16.30 h Stolperfallen: Ein Erfahrungsbericht (Peter Kallien, b.experts GmbH)

17.00 h Start-Up Finanzierung mit Risikokapital – Eine Betrachtung aus der Praxis (Dr. Juri Bach, HTGF)

17.30 h Zivil- und steuerliche Rechtsformen – Was gibt es zu beachten? (Ulrich Bruns, Bruns Rechtsanwälte)

18.00 h tba(Daniel Grünes, aquila biolabs GmbH)

ab 18.30 h gemeinsamer Besuch des Weihnachtsmarktes Düsseldorf

 

Mehr Informationen: http://www.nweurope.eu/projects/project-search/bio-innovation-support-for-entrepreneurs-throughout-nwe-regions/events/biobase4sme-workshop-adventure-founding-how-to-turn-it-into-a-success/

From date
2018-12-06
To date
2018-12-06