Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking

The Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) is a 1 – 2 billion partnership between the European Union and the Bio-based Industries Consortium that funds projects deploying competitive, sustainable and circular bio-based industries in Europe. CBE JU aims to boost Europe’s competitiveness in the bio-economy sector, create new green jobs and offer alternative income sources to primary producers in regions, and address today’s environmental challenges.

Since 2014, CBE JU has supported over 190 projects focusing on developing innovative technologies and bio-based solutions for crop protection and fertilisation, plastics, textile, food, chemicals, packaging, construction and other sectors.

Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH

The Bioeconomy Cluster at Forschungszentrum Juelich aims to establish a thriving regional bioeconomy that leverages the strengths of the Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC), the transformation hub BioökonomieREVIER to shape the innovation-driven transition in the Rhenish region and the EU project BIO2REG to support EU regions in the bioeconomy transition. The cluster integrates research, industry, education, and community engagement to foster circular bio-based solutions, promote regional economic resilience, and address global sustainability challenges. BioSC serves as a regional research and education hub, clustering activities from Forschungszentrum Juelich and three regional universities. BioSC’s systemic approach to bioeconomy fosters interdisciplinary research and education, enabling the development of innovative solutions that support the regional transition.

DBFZ Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gemeinnützige GmbH

The objective of the DBFZ Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum gemeinnützige GmbH is application-oriented research and development in the field of energetic and integrated material use of renewable raw materials in the bioeconomy. With partners from research and industry in the Global North and South we explore innovative techniques and their economic, social and environmental impacts. 

icipe

Headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, icipe was established in 1970, to address this very paradox of insects and accompanying challenges. The Centre’s mission is to use insect science for sustainable development, to ensure food security and improve the overall health of communities in Africa by addressing the interlinked problems of poverty, poor health, low agricultural productivity and environmental degradation.

Since its founding, icipe has remained committed to developing and disseminating environmentally safe, affordable, acceptable and accessible tools and strategies to control insect pests and disease vectors. icipe’s mandate further extends to the sustainable conservation and utilisation of Africa’s rich biodiversity.

BioInnovate Africa

BioInnovate Africa is a regional science and innovation-driven initiative that is supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and implemented by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) in Nairobi, Kenya.

The initiative supports scientists in Eastern Africa to link biological based research ideas, inventions, and technologies to business and the market. Scientists work collaboratively in a regional context, and involve interdisciplinary teams from academia, industry and government to co-develop solutions that address the region’s development priorities. Collaboration at the national and regional level, and creating links between research and industry, are some of the surest ways of translating scientific outputs into usable goods and services in daily life.

While funding biological based innovation projects remains the core activity of BioInnovate Africa, the initiative also supports development of policies and strategies that foster a sustainable bioeconomy in Africa.