The Bioeconomy Science Center explanatory film provides a first insight into bioeconomy. It describes how interdisciplinary and integrative research cooperation on a regional scale can be organized and what is required to develop solution approaches for the challenges of the 21st century.
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Unfavorable and complex constraints such as limitation of agricultural areas, competing uses of renewable resources – energetically or materially – and changing consumption habits call for new cross-disciplinary approaches from the field of sustainable bioeconomy.
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The sustainable production of energy and renewable resources through resource-efficient processes and the development of a closed-cycle economy is an important aspect of adapting to climate change. Already today, the concept of a sustainable bioeconomy offers many solutions for improving climate protection.
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This can only be achieved through sustainable management of our natural resources, including air, water, climate and ecosystems. A sustainable bioeconomy can provide a number of promising solutions in this area.
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Its storage capability is what makes bioenergy such an important part of the future energy mix. It is an indispensable component that can compete with energy sources such as wind and solar energy that are not always available. The sustainable bioeconomy offers solutions for developing integrated production processes for sustainable production.
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Congratulations to Uwe Conrath on his review in Nature Plants, where he comprehensively highlights the parallels between systemic resistance in plants and acquired immunity in mammals. The similarities between the two mechanisms offer considerable potential for changing both agricultural practices and medical therapies, for example with the development of innovative crop protection strategies and the optimization of vaccine approaches.
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Congratulations on the paper “A Sustainable Method for Potato Side Stream Valorisation to Obtain Steroidal Glycoalkaloids within a Bioeconomy Approach“. The study shows how plant by-products can be used as a source of valuable natural substances without competing with food production, and makes an important contribution to the further development of sustainable processes in natural product chemistry.
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‘The rocky path from research to commercialisation of biosurfactants’ was impressively described by Wim Soetaert in the 34th BioSC Lecture on 12 September 2025. The BioSC Lecture was also a keynote lecture at the Biosurfactants Conference 2025 at RWTH Aachen University.
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Around 22,000 visitors came to Forschungszentrum Jülich on 7 September to take a look inside the campus. BioSC was there with a large bioeconomy product exhibition and many current research results from ongoing projects.
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Grebe, LA, Richter, P, Altenkirch, T, Mann, M, Müller, MJ, Büchs, J and Magnus, JB (2025). Sampling-free investigation of microbial carbon source preferences on renewable feedstocks via online monitoring of oxygen transfer rate. Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering 48(3): 413-425. NextVegOil
Halle, L, Höppner, D, Doser, M, Brüsseler, C, Gätgens, J, Conen, N, Jupke, A, Marienhagen, J and Noack, S (2025). From molasses to purified α-ketoglutarate with engineered Corynebacterium glutamicum. Bioresource Technology 416: 131803. BioPlastiCycle
Schoofs, L, Weidener, D, Leitner, W, Klose, H and Grande, PM (2025). Lignocellulose Treatment Using a Flow-Through Variant of OrganoCat Process. ChemSusChem 18(3): e202401063. LignoTex
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