€120 million available for advancing Europe’s circular bioeconomy
- Sista ansökningsdag 22 september 2022.
CBE JU has published its first call for project proposals. A total of €120 million will be dedicated to advancing competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe across 12 topics. All stakeholders of the bio-based industries ecosystem can apply.The mission of CBE JU is to advance a competitive bioeconomy for a sustainable Europe. To achieve this goal, in 2022, the public-private partnership will fund projects developing innovative and sustainable bio-based solutions, with a focus on these strategic priorities: feedstock, processing, products, as well as cross-cutting aspects of communication and environmental sustainability.
The Call’s funding supports three CBE JU objectives:
- Accelerate the innovation process and development of bio-based innovative solutions
- Accelerate market deployment of existing mature and innovative bio-based solution
- Ensure a high level of environmental performance of bio-based industrial systems
Project applicants will support the implementation of these objectives via 12 topics with a total indicative budget of €120 million:
- Biogenic carbon capture and use (CCU) for circular bio-based products – €10 million
- Cooperative business models for sustainable mobilisation and valorisation of agricultural residues, by-products, and waste in rural areas – €10 million
- Cost-effective production routes towards bio-based alternatives to fossil-based chemical building blocks – €12 million
- Co-processing of mixed bio-based waste streams – €12 million
- Maximum valorisation of sustainably sourced bio-based feedstock in multi-product, zero-waste, zero-pollution biorefinery – €14 million
- Alternative sources for high added value food and/or feed ingredients – €14 million
- High performance bio-based polymers for market applications with stringent requirements – €9 million
- Bio-based coatings, barriers, binders, and adhesives – €9 million
- Circular-by-design bio-based materials to improve the circularity of complex structures – €9 million
- Proteins from alternative and unconventional sources – €9 million
- Sustainable fibres biorefineries feedstock – €9 million
- Developing and validating monitoring systems of environmental sustainability and circularity: collection of best practices and benchmarks – €3 million
Who can apply?
All stakeholders of the bio-based industries ecosystem – farmers, brand owners, companies, research organisations and local authorities, to name just a few – are invited to apply for CBE JU funding.
Read more and apply on the CBE website by clicking the green button on the top right.