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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The 9th International BioSC Symposium was held at the LVR Landesmuseum in Bonn on November 24 and 25, 2025. Around 150 participants from academia, industry, politics and civil society joined the event that focused on the connections and links between bioeconomy, circularity and sustainability in the context of global and climate change. Welcome addresses were given by Thorsten Menne from the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW and Katja Frühwald-König, Co-Chair of the Bioeconomy Council NRW. Thorsten Menne presented the BioSC Christian Patermann Award 2025 for exceptional supervision of PhD students in the field of bioeconomy to Jeanette Klink-Lehmann (University of Bonn) and Marco Löhrer (RWTH Aachen University).
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John Woodley (DTU Chemical Engineering, Denmark) gave the 35th BioSC Lecture entitled “Opportunities and challenges for microbial and cell-free biocatalysis” at the Jülich Biotech Day 2025. In his presentation, John Woodley focused on biocatalysis and highlighted the differences between in vivo and in vitro reactions.
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The 10th anniversary of the PhD Day was again held in Neuss. Scientists from industry and Doctoral Researcher came together to discuss science and how innovation is driven in industry, along case studies in the according companies. An additional well-established part of our PhD day was the insight into the respective career pathways of the speakers.
moreCongratulations 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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Eight new interdisciplinary SEED FUND 3.0 projects and a white paper have been launched at the turn of the year.
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
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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