In the next few years, the "Modellfabrik Papier" will be set up in Düren with the help of structural funding. The aim of the cooperation project with academic institutions and companies is to make paper production in Germany climate-neutral by 2050. Among the cooperation partners are member institutes of the BioSC. On 9 September, the project was presented as part of the first museum dialogue at the Papiermuseum Düren.

On August 28 and 29, a citizens' event celebrating the 75th anniversary of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia will take place in Düsseldorf, focusing, among other things, on the topic of the bioeconomy. BioSC will be represented in a „Tiny House“ of the initiative BioökonomieREVIER.

On its second tour as part of the Bioeconomy Science Year 2020/21, the exhibition ship MS Wissenschaft will be traveling for three weeks in North Rhine-Westphalia. On board is the exhibit "Algae Flipper", an exhibit in which the BioSC is involved. After Oberhausen and Krefeld, the ship will stop in Düsseldorf, Monheim, Wesseling and Königswinter.

Yesterday at 5:00 pm the time had finally come: The publication about the data from the white paper "PlastiCycle" was published in Nature Catalysis. The study was conducted by Prof. Dr. Nick Wierckx from IBG-1 at Forschungszentrum Jülich from September 2019 to February 2020.

Biotechnology as one of the central technologies of the bioeconomy was the focus of the third talk in the "Karliczek.Impulse." series on June 16. Prof. Dr. Karl-Erich Jaeger, Director of the Institute for Molecular Enzyme Technology at HHU Düsseldorf and member of the BioSC, gave the keynote speech. The subsequent discussion focused on how biotechnology and, in particular, enzyme technology can contribute to a sustainable bioeconomy today and in the future.

Five years ago, Georg Schaumann’s research team at Jülich combined its biosensor technology with expertise in microbial strain development to set up the biotechnology spin-off SenseUP GmbH. Now, over the next three years, the spin-off from the Institute of Bio- and Geosciences at Forschungszentrum Jülich aims to develop cost-effective and scalable methods for producing RNA-based substances. Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Education and Research Thomas Rachel (member of the German Bundestag) officially announced that this project will receive funding worth € 800,000.

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