The Blue Chain - De Blauwe Keten
Greenhouse horticulture is under pressure from rising costs and increasing global competition. Flanders and the Netherlands have therefore adopted a policy of supporting greenhouse horticulture in order to achieve the necessary…
AgroCycle
AgroCycle is a ca. €8 million (ca. €7 million from the European Commission, ca. €1 million from the Government of The People’s Republic of China) Horizon 2020 research and innovation project addressing the recycling and valorisation of waste from the…
Pilots4U
A key challenge for the bio-economy is to bring newly developed molecules and techniques from the lab to the market. The main bottleneck in the innovation chain is the step from technology development to deployment. This step has to be performed first in…
TransBio
Despite its high added value, anaerobic digestion in Flanders as a base technology still has a high investment and operating cost and is dependent on financial support for renewable energy technologies. TransBio wants to optimize the baseline business…
Phos4You
Phos4You addresses the phosphorus (P) challenge. P is a nutrient essential for all living organisms. Though it is a finite resource on earth, P is largely wasted today. The EU acknowledged this by adding phosphate rock to its list of critical raw…
SYSTEMIC
Creation of a roadmap to facilitate solutions for biowaste in the EU.
SYSTEMIC recognizes Europe’s challenge to tackle the increasing resources constraint and to facilitate the transition towards a more circular economy (COM, 2015-614). SYSTEMIC…
ALG-AD
ALG-AD addresses reuse of waste to generate products for a sustainable economy, reducing pollution risk and dependence on imported material resources.
North West Europe (NWE), a densely populated intensive agricultural area, contributes disproportionately…
New-C-Land
Space in the border regions of Flanders, Wallonia and France is scarce. However, many parcels remain unused at the moment, for example due to environmental pollution.The respective (regional) governments are currently strongly committed to the…
Pocket Power
Rising energy prices are more and more becoming a determining cost in the economic picture of agri- and horticultural companies. At the same time a lot of agricultural residues remain unused on farms (manure, crop residues, ...) and they can cause…