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Keep going: 3rd Consortium Meeting held

BIORING 3rd Consortium Meeting: updates & future activities   We all met in Rostock, Germany, hosted by Leibniz-Institut für Katalyse e. V. (LIKAT), on June 27th-28th. The agenda of the Month 12 Meeting included updates on the progress of each work package, discussions on potential challenges, and planning for future collaborations. Presentations were given by […]

Addressing SSbD of biobased coatings: highlights from our Workshop

How to address safety and sustainability dimensions in new high-performing biobased coatings? That’s what we are working on in BIORING, and to better answer we hold our first Open Innovation Workshop, titled Early sustainability assessment in innovation process. Share good practices on anticipatory risk assessment, prospective, ex-ante LCA and more.    We gathered several experts […]

The devil is in the details: interview to BIORING Coordinators

The devil is in the details: our experience on the synthesis of alternative, sustainable, biobased chemicals Interview to Manuel López Granados and Nicole Doelker, Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemistry of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and BIORING Coordinators (Interview made on April 19th, 2024)    Which is the novelty and added value of the […]

More sustainable coatings form SuperBark project

More sustainable coatings: discover SuperBark, BIORING sister project Can natural components in softwood bark be the base for safe, sustainable and high-performance adhesives and coatings? This is what the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) project SuperBark explores, aiming at developing new bio-based adhesives and coatings for a range of industrial applications, with improved […]

30 new projects ready for CBE JU funding

30 new innovative projects selected for CBE JU funding The CBE JU selected the 2023 project proposals to be funded: 30 proposals will receive a total of nearly €215.5 million, with grant agreements expected to be signed before the end of May 2024.   Advance competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe: this was the second […]

The future of European bio-based sector

Which is the future of the European bio-based sector? This question animated the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking first Stakeholder Forum, held 6-7 December 2023 in Brussels.   In its nine panel discussions, the event engaged over 400 participants from more than 30 countries, highlighted the latest advancements in the bio-based sector, sustainable practices, and […]

BIORING started!

BIORING: new EU project on renewable UV curing polyurethane biocoatings has started  The new Horizon Europe project BIORING (Engineering high performance biocoatings from renewable reactive building blocks), funded by Circular Biobased Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) with the call HORIZON-JU-CBE-2022, started on June 1st, 2023, and will run until May 31st, 2026.  The project aims to develop a […]