Horizon Bioeconomy: Bio-Based Standards Research
Funds research consortia developing the pre-normative science behind future standards for bio-based chemicals, polymers and other bio-based products.
Bio-based products — everything from bio-based chemicals to polymers — often can't scale past a lab or a niche market because there's no accepted standard for testing, comparing or ecodesigning them. Buyers, regulators and other manufacturers have no benchmark to test a product against. This topic funds the research that has to happen before a real standard can be written — pre-normative research,…
Pre-normative research that fills gaps in the standardization pipeline for one bio-based sector — the topic's own example is intermediate bio-based chemicals or polymers — covering the knowledge, technology, product, process or service needed for ecodesign in that sector, plus the stakeholder engagement with industry, standards bodies and policymakers needed to get a real standard adopted. Bioenergy and biofuel applications are out of scope. Two projects are funded at a fixed €4M lump sum each.
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