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Support the development of rural bioeconomy by defining and testing new business models for the valorisation of rural side streams into added value bio-based products, thus accelerating new bio-based value chains generating opportunities for all involved actors, including primary producers. 

It is a strategic public-private partnership devoted to the co-creation of Slovenian R&I ecosystem in circular (bio)economy to create new value chains based on closed material flows. The network operated in the underdeveloped bio-economy market, which provides a pool of relevant organisations profiting from ToBeReaL support services and those proposing flagship projects.

COPILOT is the follow-up project of the Pilots4U project and gains to support start-ups/SMEs for their scale-up innovation and focusses on widening access to shared infrastructure for low innovation countries.

BBEPP coordinated this INTERREG North-West Europe project, that provided innovation support (Vouchers) for start-ups/ SMEs to overcome technological and non-technological barriers to bring their innovation to market. Involved were leading bio-based economy experts such as NNFCC giving advice on sustainability assessment, market research as well as business plan review and creation, and BBEPP providing process development and scale-up incl. techno-economic evaluation.

Within this project, BEC was running its own voucher scheme to support innovation projects in bioeconomy at national level in Slovakia. Pilot call was launched in 2021 to support cooperation of research with practice (industry) in bioeconomy and agri-food. In total, 22 applications were received, and 5 innovative projects were selected for financial support. These were implemented in 2022 and 2023.

FAB provides technical support to Friuli Venezia Giulia Autonomous Region for the mapping and acceleration of strategic regional value chains valorising rural side streams, with a view at enhancing circular and sustainable bioeconomic processes and business models

B2BE brings entrepreneurs from agriculture, horticulture, marine and food industry together with industrial partners around green innovations in the carbon neutral economy, to accelerate the development of the local Flemish bio-economy.

StartBEC is the technical support program co-financed by the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and AINIA aimed at emerging companies in the Bioeconomy AINIA puts its experience, technology and knowledge at the service of the StartBEC Community, in addition to providing legal advice, cutting-edge studies, specialised training and promotion to clients, financiers and other relevant actors.

BIOTRANSFORM provides European policymakers with an adequate assessment and policy development framework, knowledge base and expert support ecosystem to accelerate the transition from linear fossil-based systems to circular bio-based systems. It is therefore operating at the interface between the circular economy and the bioeconomy transitions

The EU-funded BIOMODEL4REGIONS project aims to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals by supporting local strategies, enabling stakeholders’ responsible behaviour and propagating best practice guidelines for climate neutrality and low environmental footprint improvements of bio-based products and services. From pilot regions across Northern, Southern, Eastern and Central-Western EU, researchers will extract a fully transferable case-study approach, ready to be replicated throughout the continent.

The CCRI is a collaboration and support scheme of the European Commission, launched by the Directorate-General for Research and Innovation as part of the European Circular Economy Action Plan 2020. The CCRI aims to support Europe’s green transition by boosting circularity at local and regional levels. It focuses on the implementation of Circular Systemic Solutions across Europe’s cities and regions. The CCRI therefore provides a local contribution to the implementation of the European Green Deal and the European Bioeconomy Strategy.

The mission of the B4C Network is contributing to a circular economy with innovative approaches, through conducting research projects, organizing professional events, and producing scientific publications which will support the smooth transition to circularity across the bio-based value chain. The B4C Network seeks to expand its existing partnership with recognized partners in order to emphasise joint contributions towards more circular systems, in support of strengthening the scientific knowledge base and international collaboration and provide supporting evidence for improved policy making. To this end, close collaboration will also be sought with various national and international institutions as well as industries working in field of bio-based solutions and circularity. The network will also contribute to the improved integration of bio- and circularity-based solutions in research, supporting professionals about the many interrelations this topic naturally offers.

ECBF is the first venture fund exclusively focused on the bioeconomy and the circular bioeconomy in Europe. With a target size of €250 million, to which the European Investment Bank (EIB) has committed €100 million, ECBF will be an important financial instrument in achieving the European Green Deal goals of making Europe climate neutral by 2050.

Engage4BIO will strengthen circular, sustainable bioeconomy and sustainable regional development through processes of design thinking, co-creation, (re)training and skills development.
The regional bio-based systems focus on the five major value chains: namely circular and bio-based textiles (NL), agriculture and agro-food industries (HU), wood and interior (AT), bio-based and sustainable packaging (FI) and blue bioeconomy (IT).

BioBoost – Catalysing Investment into Catalan Bioeconomy via One-Stop-Shop Accelerator. upport services for the development of bioeconomy projects and technological innovation

RuralBioUp’s main objective is to support innovators to scale-up inclusive and small-scale biobased solutions in rural areas.

InvestCEC will develop a replicable model for the initiation of circular economy projects in cities and regions, that will improve collaboration between entrepreneurs, investors and policy makers.

To support project promoters by providing the support they need to develop investment-ready circular economy projects at local and regional scale.

The Horizon Europe project DEvelopers of CIrcular SOlutions (DECISO) will support European cities and regions to develop financing schemes for circular economy initiatives. DECISO partners will set up four pilot projects in Hamburg (DE), Alentejo (PT), Northwest Germany (DE) and West Macedonia (EL). The pilots will cover different sectors: waste, water, energy and agrifood. Integrating input from stakeholders along the value chain will allow developing robust business plans. Based on this, DECISO will establish guidelines for financing schemes which other European cities and regions can use for their circular economy initiatives.

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ZeroW is a €12 million EU project about systemic innovations for zero food waste, funded under the Green Deal call of the Horizon Programme 2020 (Grant Agreement no. 101036388).

InnCoCells is a Horizon 2020 research and innovation project funded by the EU under the FNR-11-2020 topic “Prospecting aquatic and terrestrial natural biological resources for biologically active compounds” The project launched in 2021 aims to develop innovative plant-based production processes for the commercial exploitation of scientifically validated cosmetic ingredients using profitable and sustainable cell cultures, aeroponic cultivation, and greenhouse/field cultivation