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Towards a sustainable bioeconomy

Research • Educate • Connect
Towards a sustainable bioeconomy
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Sustainable bioeconomy!?

What is it? And how can research and education contribute to the transformation to a bio-based economy?

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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Food security
Climate protection
Resource management
Energy supply

Integrative bioeconomy  |  Finding solutions for societal challenges

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Challenge Food security

How can we succeed in supplying a growing world population with high quality foods?

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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Challenge Climate protection

How can the impacts of human activity on the earth’s climate be minimized?

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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Challenge Resource management

How can we meet requirements for resources and energy production that are both secure and economical?

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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Challenge Energy supply

How can renewable fuels for mobile applications and bioenergy be made available sustainably and for the long term?

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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Current news

04.03.2024

Bioeconomy Council NRW starts work

On February 29, the members of the Bioeconomy Council NRW received their certificates of appointment from Minister Neubauer. With Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schurr and Prof. Dr. Ralf Pude, three members of the BioSC have been appointed.

Photos: MWIKE NRW / A. Bowinkelmann

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23.01.2024

Joachim von Braun is the latest IICA Goodwill Ambassador for Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development

Professor Joachim von Braun, former member of the BioSC, has been appointed Ambassador for Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA).

Photo: IICA

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14.12.2023

State government of North Rhine-Westphalia appoints Bioeconomy Council NRW

In order to strengthen the bioeconomy location of North Rhine-Westphalia, the state government has decided to establish the Bioeconomy Council NRW which will be involved in developing a bioeconomy strategy for North Rhine-Westphalia over the next two years. Among the 15 experts from industry, science and civil society are three members of the BioSC, Prof. Dr. Monika Hartmann, Prof. Dr. Ralf Pude and Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schurr, as well as Prof. Dr. Stefanie Bröring, BioSC member until 2022.

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04.12.2023

Biosurfactant research in the BioSC: Successful acquisition of follow-up projects

Two research teams led by Dr. Till Tiso (Institute of Applied Microbiology, RWTH Aachen University, and member of the BioSC) have successfully acquired research projects to continue work from the BioSC projects SurfIn, Bio² and NovoSurf, among others.

(Photo: iAMB, RWTH Aachen)

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Topics

BioSC Forum 2024 (Internal Retreat)

12 March | Jülich

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EU Commission`s Knowledge Center for Bioeconomy publishes recommendations from foresight workshops

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Figure: Seed Fund 3.0 PREDIG

New web application for simulation of biomass saccharification

As overall goal of the BioSC Seed Fund 3.0 project PREDIG, the team led by Dr Adélaïde Raguin (HHU Düsseldorf) has successfully developed a Web Application to simulate biomass saccharification, that is now online available and published in the Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal.

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Publications

De, PS, Glass, T, Stein, M, Spitzlei, T and Raguin, A (2023). PREDIG: Web application to model and predict the enzymatic saccharification of plant cell wall. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal 21: 5463-5475.  PREDIG

Waßenhoven, A., Rennings, M., Laibach, N., Bröring, S. (2023). What constitutes a “Key Enabling Technology” for transition processes: Insights from the bioeconomy's technological landscape. Technological Forecasting and Social Change 197: 122873. 10.1016/j.techfore.2023.122873. Transform2Bio

Schonhoff, A., Stöckigt, G., Wulf, C., Zapp, P., Kuckshinrichs, W. (2023). Biosurfactants production with substrates from the sugar industry - environmental, cost, market and social aspects. RSC Sustainability, doi 10.1039/D3SU00122A  Bio2

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Calls

Bioeconomy International 2024 (BMBF)
Deadline for project outlines: February 27, 2024
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Förderprogramm Industrielle Bioökonomie (BMWK)
Deadline for project outlines: March 1 and June 30, 2024
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Kreativer Nachwuchs forscht für die Bioökonomie (BMBF)
Deadline for project outlines: April 15, 2024; April 15, 2025; April 15, 2026
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ZukunftBIO.NRW - 3. Förderrunde (MWIKE)
Deadline for project outlines: June 30, 2024
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Generation (B)ioeconomy

Research plus mentoring in BioSC - Funded by the Marga and Walter Boll Foundation

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Jobs

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Events

next event: 19.03.2024
Reims, France
19.03.2024 - 21.03.2024

BIOKET 2024

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Frankfurt am Main
15.04.2024 - 19.04.2024

International Spring School: "Opportunities and Challenges of Process Intensification Application in Lignocellulosic Biorefineries"

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