CJ
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU)

Develop and deploy new curricula and knowledge exchange practices relevant to bio-based systems

Pays a university-industry network to build and test new training curricula for bioeconomy skills like biomanufacturing, ecodesign and circularity.

Develop and deploy new curricula and knowledge exchange practices relevant to bio-based systems is a Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) grant that pays a university-industry network to build and test new training curricula for bioeconomy skills like biomanufacturing, ecodesign and circularity. The topic sits among thirteen CBE JU topics sharing a combined 2025 call budget of EUR …

The call wants a network of universities, RTOs and industry that co-creates higher-education, vocational and professional courses for the circular bio-based economy. Curricula should mix STEM and social-science content and be piloted with real students and working professionals, with deliberate outreach to under-represented 'Widening' countries.

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