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📢 By the 18 September deadline, the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) Programme Office received 298 project proposals for the 2024 call. 💡With nearly €1.5 billion in funding requested against an indicative call budget of €213 million, it’s clear that Europe’s bio-based industries are eager to lead in sustainable innovation! Evaluation will take place throughout October and November 2024, and applicants can expect the results in January 2025. The 2024 call invited proposals across 18 topics aimed at advancing competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe. 🌍🔄 📌https://bit.ly/3zxvGaS #Bioeconomy #CircularEconomy #Sustainability #Innovation #Funding #HorizonEurope

Geographical and organised #proximity reveal all their potential when dealing with #CircularEconomy This is my fourth paper on #proximity in Regional Studies Journal !!!! This brand new one has been written with my cherished co-authors Sébastien BOURDIN, Marie-France Vernier, Nabila Arfaoui and Linh Chi Vo. The study is based on an original survey of 1000 firms in the chemistry sector in France.

20 March 2024, Brussels: the European Commission 🇪🇺 has adopted and presented today its strategy: "Building the future with nature: Boosting Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing in the EU", leveraging Europe's clear scientific edge in biotech, and turn this into commercial successes. ▶️Three priorities have been identified: awareness building , financing and regulation. 🌳A strong emphasis is placed on the crucial contribution of the forest-based and wood industries: 🪵 Recognising that the EU has a strong domestic supply of renewable raw materials, such as wood. 🪵 In the case of biomanufacturing, the forest sector offers sustainably produced, renewable and recyclable raw materials that can be used for high value innovative products, such as batteries or healthcare and pharmaceuticals applications (e.g. nanocellulose-based wound dressings). 🪵 Furthermore, wood can be used to replace fossil-based or non-renewable materials, for example, in the production of construction materials and textiles and to substitute chemicals. 🪵 Biorefineries can nowadays transform wood into innovative high value-added products in several sectors: biochemicals, insulation foams, bio composites, engineered foams, batteries, etc. 🪵 The European Commission in its “Annual Union Work Programme for European Standardisation“ for 2024 (https://lnkd.in/eKsFZbMe) has indicated its intention to request the European standardisation organisations (CEN, CENELEC) to develop and revise standardisation deliverables on biomaterials, bio-based and wood-derived products. 🪵 Bio-based value chains would benefit from a deeper integration of primary producers (e.g. farmers and foresters) as they are at the beginning of most bio-based value chains. 🌳 Biotech with its biomaterials have tremendous potential to transform health care, to feed the world, to address climate change, to boost jobs and prosperity with biomanufacturing. Link: https://lnkd.in/egSx_v_K

👏 Cefic welcomes the European Commission's Strategy on Advanced Materials for Industrial Leadership, a crucial move for the chemical industry's role in Europe's green and digital transition. Dr. Daniel Witthaut, MBA Cefic's Executive Director for Innovation highlights: 💬 "The chemical industry's capacity for innovation is instrumental in designing advanced materials with new functionalities. This leads to the development of new products, applications, and even value chains." These materials are vital to solve societal challenges, including reducing emissions and enhancing energy efficiency. 🔄 ➡ To ensure the Strategy's success Cefic underlines the need for: Increased funding 📈 Technology scale-up funding ↗️ Support for Private Public Partnerships 🤝 to ensure these innovations translate into industrial leadership. Aligned with the Antwerp Declaration, we're committed to a transformative European Industrial Deal. 💡 Let's innovate for a competitive, resilient Europe. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eeWyyuBk _28/02/2024 #AdvancedMaterials #GreenTransition #DigitalTransition #Innovation #Sustainability #AntwerpDeclaration #IndustrialDeal #Competition #Competitiveness #Industry #Chemistry #ChemicalIndustry  

🧪 Chemicals that are safe and sustainable by design is the way forward. TNO's proactive approach enables the early identification of opportunities to improve safety and sustainability during the innovation process, throughout the entire life cycle. ♻ Take a step forward to SSbD ➡ https://tno.social/u2o

TNO is developing an innovative Decision Support System to help companies to develop products that are Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD). TNO's SSbD approach: The innovation approach aims to empower companies to take informed decisions based on the integration of health, safety, sustainability, functionality and cost impacts early in the innovation process. 1. Defining design criteria: For the intended use of the chemical, material or product 2. Quick screening: On all SSbD aspects (health, safety, sustainability, functionality and cost) within the SSbD decision support tool based on available information, data and modeling 3. Visualisation: Integration of impact on SSbD aspects and visualisation of trade-offs 4. Decision making: Based on transparent visualisation and scenario testing. If needed, more detailed evaluation of one or more SSbD aspects can be performed e.g. by additional data gathering, (in vitro) testing, advanced modeling to reduce uncertainties and support decision making Great work by Wouter Fransman and Hedwig Braakhuis. Link to their SSbD whitepaper: https://lnkd.in/e5Z2697r #ssbd #chemicals #eugreendeal #safety #sustainability #design #chemicalindustry #innovation #decisionmaking #health

Innovation is essential to ensure #EU's chemical #industry stays competitive, meets the #GreenDeal goals, and strengthens its strategic independence. ⚡ To support this, Cefic outlined a 9-point action plan highlighting the steps policymakers and the EU need to take to help the #EnergyStorage sector lead in global innovation. 💡 With rising #energy costs and a tough investment landscape, it’s more important than ever to create conditions that encourage #research, boost sustainable #HightTech development, and simplify regulations.🔍 In BATMACHINE, we are focused on leveraging on #digital concepts to make battery manufacturing more #efficient and #sustainable. 🌱 📝 Explore the 9 actions that can drive innovation in the EU chemical industry 👇 https://lnkd.in/dh2FuweN #Innovation #Batteries #Sustainability #EV

Innovate UK is opening this exciting call very soon. To find out more join the webinar on the 26th March. Your project must fit one or both of the following themes: 1. Resource-efficient materials and manufacturing 2. Sustainable bio-based materials and biomanufacturing

Sol-Rec2 partners from TWI and the University of Leicester (ULEIC) presented the project consortium's latest progress and innovations at the recent Materials Science Conference held in Rome, Italy. Dr George V. Theodosopoulos, M.Sc, Ph.D of TWI gave a presentation on the Recycling of Multicomponent, Multi-layer Waste Employing Green Solvents, and Dr Adamantini Loukodimou, of the Materials Innovation Centre (#MatIC: a TWI- ULEIC partnership), representing Sol-Rec2, was a moderator during the second day of the event. Dissemination at this international conference generated strong engagement between industry and academia on the project, effectively promoting Sol-Rec2 objectives and results. About Sol-Rec2 - targets: 💚 Sorting: innovative #watermarks for faster, more efficient sorting of multilayer #packaging #materials 🌲 Recycling: delamination of multi-layer #material #waste through new, #green #solvent systems to reduce the demand for virgin raw materials 🍏 Sustainability: reducing the complexity of multi-layer materials leading to the design of more #sustainable, laminated packaging 📗 Environmental: minimising the #environmentalimpact and #carbonfootprint associated with virgin #plastics production and #extraction Project partners: IMP2 LIMITED, Solvionic, AIMPLAS · Technological Institute of Plastics, Mikrolin Hungary Kft., Plastigram Industries a.s., FiliGrade Sustainable Watermarks and MatIC. #sustainability #recyling #collaboratetoinnovate #TWIIN