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15 October 202415 October 2024

New ReBioCycle project on novel recycling and up-cycling solutions for bio-plastics

Several bioeconomy hubs from Europe will be focusing on mechanical recycling, chemical recycling, enzymatic recycling and microbial recycling

29 May 202427 May 2024

MTU to lead €9 million CBE JU Farm-based Grass Biorefinery Demonstration Initiative

Munster Technological University will lead a new first-of-its-kind decentralised green biorefinery demonstration initiative funded under the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU)

14 March 202410 March 2024

The PROSPLIGN project: Fundacion MEDINA participates as a partner in the launch of a €3.4 Million Project on Lignin Bioprospecting

Kicking off a €3.4 Million Project on Lignin Bioprospecting

Neues EU-Projekt gestartet

Hauptziel des Projekts PROSPLIGN ist die Erforschung des bioaktiven Potenzials von Lignin – einem natürlichen, reichlich vorhandenen und nachhaltigen Biopolymer

15 January 202114 January 2021

A Value Chain Event on Carbohydrate and Specialty Industrial Crops – Opportunities for the agriculture sector

20 January 2021, 14:00 to 17:00 h (CET)

20 November 20209 September 2021

MIXed plastics biodegradation and UPcycling using microbial communities

Through a combination of intensive protein or metabolic engineering of defined mixed cultures and bioprocess-optimisation, MIX-UP will enable new value chains across sectors like materials, chemicals, and environmental technologies

13 November 20209 September 2021

Possibilities and limitations of biotechnological plastic degradation and recycling

Researchers group found six principles to get plastics into circulation - progressions in microbial recycling you may just find with PET

Szenarien für mikrobielles Plastikrecycling

Forschende haben sechs Prinzipien formuliert, um Kunststoffe wieder in den Kreislauf zu bringen - denn Fortschritte beim mikrobiellen Recycling gibt es derzeit nur beim PET

31 October 201928 October 2019

BIC hosts first-ever European bio-based student challenge to develop innovative, sustainable products from bio-based raw materials

Five teams presented their innovative projects to an audience of leading figures from the bio-based industry

10 April 20195 April 2019

Edible straws could replace single-use plastic items

UCD-led project aims to reduce food waste to landfill and plastic pollution

5 February 20195 February 2019

EIP-Agri Operational Group to coordinate Ireland’s first small-scale biorefinery demonstration project

The Biorefinery Glas project aims to address key challenges in Irish agriculture while promoting farmer diversification into Ireland’s growing bioeconomy

2 November 201828 October 2018

Minister Launches BEACON Bioeconomy SFI Research Centre and National Pilot Biorefining Facility

€28 million in total invested in BEACON and National Bioeconomy Campus

7 September 201817 September 2018

Biodegradable plastic that goes straight into compost bin could keep Ireland green

Researchers discover biodegradable material that degrades in everyday compost bins

10 January 20188 January 2018

Irish Bioeconomy Foundation Receives Enterprise Ireland Funding to Develop a New Bioeconomy Innovation and Piloting Facility

New plant to enable industry, entrepreneurs and researchers to scale technologies for converting Ireland’s natural resources to high value products

28 August 201724 August 2017

New review of processes for extraction & use of valuable compounds from by-products of crops

New strategies for processing added value from these wastes are needed to reduce the environmental burden and provide new income streams

1 September 201630 August 2016

PHA: promising, versatile, biodegradable

All members of the PHA family are biodegradable - not just in industrial composting equipment, but also in the soil and in freshwater and seawater

1 March 201629 February 2016