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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North Rhine-Westphalia’s new bioeconomy strategy emphasizes research and development as a source of innovation for a circular and bio-based economy. NRW has huge potential for implementing the bioeconomy. The strategy highlights the opportunities in individual sectors but places particular emphasis on the role of systemic development. Research aimed at establishing the bioeconomy as a system is the founding mission of BioSC and is now finding a lasting echo in the state government’s strategy.
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Alexander Dreier, Oscar Pochhammer, and Jan Kietzmann are the winners of this year’s “Meet the Circular Economy” Innovation Challenge. They convinced the jury with a concept for recycling foam mattresses for the company Covestro.
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On July 2, speakers from the fields of research and industry gathered to discuss how artificial intelligence, autonomous robotics, and nature-inspired biopesticides are turning sustainable agriculture from a vision of the future into a reality.
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A productive and exciting day on recent developments in green chemistry research and application – that was the 11th BioSC Spotlight, which took place as a satellite event to the Fuel and Chemical Science Conference 2026.
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September 23, 2026 | 14:00 h - 15:30 h | Building 06.2, Room 406, Forschungszentrum Jülich
More InformationGrebe, 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
Wall, D, Bastard, M and Jupke, A (2026). Fluid dynamic characterization and operating window analysis of a pilot-scale multiphase loop reactor for biotechnological applications. Chemical Engineering Research and Design 232: 239–250. MK-ScaLoop
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