Horizon Bioeconomy: Residual Biomass Biotech
Funds two €7M projects that turn farm, forestry, aquatic and urban bio-waste into market-ready chemicals, materials and ingredients.
A lot of useful biomass is left over from farms, forests, fisheries, food production and cities. This topic funds industrial biotechnology that turns those leftovers into useful products such as chemicals, polymers, materials, ingredients or enzymes. The process has to work beyond the lab: proposals demonstrate it at TRL 6 or higher and validate the resulting product at TRL 5 or higher against the…
Demonstrating at least TRL 6 biotechnology-based processes that convert residual biomass into bio-based chemicals, intermediates, polymers, materials, ingredients or enzymes. The work can cover forestry and agricultural residues, aquatic biomass, urban or industrial bio-based waste, and mixed streams. It includes tailored pretreatment and fractionation, efficient separation and purification, by-product valorisation, product validation at TRL 5 or higher, feedstock logistics, circularity, and risk management for people, biodiversity and the environment.
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