A new bioeconomy strategy to boost growth and investment in EU
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Verge managing experiments in the UK
Working with the Kent Wildlife Trust and Kent County Council, senior lecturer Dr Naomi Rintoul and postdoctoral research fellow Dr Hannah Scott, from Canterbury Christ Church University, under the umbrella of the Grassification…
Biorefinery Glas – A Farmer-centric Bioeconomy Approach
“We have seen huge interest from farmers in our small-scale biorefinery initiative” said project Co-ordinator James Gaffey from Institute of Technology, Tralee. “Biorefinery Glas is one of the first…
Gramitherm - Insulation panels made out of grass!
The family of grasses covers a quarter of all land on earth, meadows cover ~20% of the European territory. Grass appears to be one of the most abundant biomass resource while also being one of the most…
Phytosudoe
A network of contaminated and/or degraded field sites covering various pedo-climatic zones was established, and different phytomanagement options were implemented and monitored for improvements in soil quality and functionality. The project carried out…
SusNisia
By means of a feasibility study the basis for a holistic material management system for biogenic residues on islands will be demonstrated on the example of the islands Lesbos and Chios. The study includes assessment of technical and infrastructural…
SCALIBUR - Scalable Technologies for Bio-urban Waste Recovery
SCALIBUR will identify and develop best practices for selective collection, transport, sorting and pre-treatment, and characterisation of food waste and urban sewage sludge.
Partners will engage…
VALUEWASTE
Every year each European citizen produces on average 200 kg of municipal biowaste. This means that between 118 and 138 million tonnes of biowaste arise annually in the EU.
The municipal biowaste management systems that currently exist in Europe, such as…
PROLIFIC
The recovered valuable fractions will undergo enzymatic modification & further conditioning techniques before their addition in various product prototypes in an industrially-relevant environment. PROLIFIC ambitions a total of 16 prototypes for the…
BIO4PRODUCTS
The innovative approach of Bio4Products is to apply a short thermal treatment (fast pyrolysis) at elevated temperature enabling the fractionation of the bio-resource, but keeping the key chemical functionalities in separate, depolymerised fractions.…