A French team representing AgroParisTech are the 2024 winners of BIC's student innovation competition🏆. Find out about team BIOSURFERS approach to producing the lipopeptide lichenysin, which can be used as a biosurfactant - replacing surfactants made with petrochemicals https://lnkd.in/epna7sSB
Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC)
Renewables & Environment
Brussels, Brussels Region 12,127 followers
Leading engagement on a European circular bioeconomy
About us
The Biobased Industries Consortium or BIC is a European association that was established in 2012 to collectively represent the private sector in a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) for the Bio-based Industries with the EU - the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU). BIC's membership now includes more than 200 member companies (large and small) and includes growing representation from new actors engaged in the bioeconomy across the full value chain e.g. brand owners. BIC also has around 165 associate members including Research and Technology Organisations (RTOs), universities, European associations and organisations. Technology Platforms (ETPs), public institutions, regional organisations and private banks. It is also host to a unique mix of sectors from agri-food, marine and aquatic, technology providers, the forest and paper-based sector, chemicals and materials, waste, energy and brand owners.
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http://www.biconsortium.eu
External link for Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC)
- Industry
- Renewables & Environment
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- Brussels, Brussels Region
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2012
- Specialties
- Bioeconomy, Bio-based, Agri-foods, Biotechnology, Circular Economy, Blue Economy, Forestry, Aquaculture, Biochemicals, Pulp & Paper, Marine Economy, Technology providers, Research, and Education
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Square de Meeûs 38/40
4th Floor
Brussels, Brussels Region 1000, BE
Employees at Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC)
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Alex Michine
MetGen - friendly enzyme company
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Hendrik Waegeman
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Nelo Emerencia
Director Human Capital & Stakeholder Relations for the Bio-based Industries Consortium and owner at Emerencia Consulting
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Dirk Carrez
Executive Director of Biobased Industries Consortium and Managing Director of Clever Consult
Updates
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Second day of the two-day team meeting in Ghent as we prepare how to super charge Europe’s bio-based industries in light of the new EU mandate and into 2025 💪. The BIC team is Dirk Carrez, Nelo Emerencia, Marco Rupp, Samuele Ambrosetti, Sophia De Smet, Patricia Vanderplasschen and Elena Antonakopolpu
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The volume of proposals shows that the CBE JU public-private partnership between the European Commission and BIC is valuable to advancing Europe's bio-based industries and aiding the green transition.
📣 The 2024 CBE JU call for project proposals has officially closed. 298 submissions were received to advance competitive #circular #biobased industries in the EU. Proposals by type of action: 🏭 9 Innovation Actions-flagship 🧪 77 Innovation Actions 🌱 189 Research and Innovation Actions 🌾 23 Coordination and Support Actions Evaluation will take place in October-November 2024, with results expected in January 2025. Find all detailed information 👉 https://lnkd.in/dXa8gAZw Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) & EU Science, Research and Innovation
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These figures showing the EU's bioeconomy turnover and the number of people it employed in 2021 show the strength of the green economy 🌿 This is just a snapshot of the information available in our latest report "European Bioeconomy in Figures: 2008-2021". Have a read! 👉 https://lnkd.in/d7gfupB8
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Today we have published "European Bioeconomy in Figures 2008-2021", the next edition in a series of in-depth reports we commission from the nova-Institut GmbH. The report contains a detailed breakdown of how the different bioeconomy sectors in the 27 EU Member States, and the bio-based industries, contribute to the EU's overall economy. This particular report covers the height of the COVID-19 pandemic https://lnkd.in/eJcU_qea
New report details state of the EU’s bioeconomy during the COVID-19 pandemic
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How can the EU achieve the maximum potential of the bioeconomy? One way: ☑️ Establish and consistently use a science-based definition for renewable carbon in EU legislation. See the policy needed in our bioeconomy Trend Report ⬇️ https://zurl.co/0GTF
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The circular bioeconomy is critical for achieving a climate-neutral, sustainable, resilient and competitive Europe ✅ It can also help to promote an “environment conducive to innovation and business”, as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen describes. Interested in what that can look like for the new European Parliament? Our BIC Manifesto has the details for success 🔽 https://zurl.co/OVAA
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BIC is one of 13 associations to have signed a Joint Statement recommending the European Commission adopt a consistent approach in carbon modeling when it comes to biogenic carbon and the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF). The accounting methodology established in PEF will have a profound effect on the recognised benefits of transitioning away from fossil feedstock in products https://lnkd.in/eJAXST8b ACV, APAG - Oleochemicals Europe, Cefic, CEPE, Cepi, EFCC - European Federation for Construction Chemicals, European Panel Federation, European Bioplastics, The International Fragrance Association (IFRA), FEICA, Plastics Europe & Renewable Carbon Initiative
BIC signs Joint Statement on biogenic carbon accounting in the Product Environmental Footprint
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According to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, Europe is aiming to become “a technological and industrial powerhouse”. How can the bioeconomy and bio-based industries help to make that real? 📣We've identified 5 core principles that should be part of the EU Biotech and Biomanufacturing Initiative: * Make the bio-based industries a strategic sector in Europe within the green and digital transition. * Accelerate Europe's bio-manufacturing capability from lab scale to pilot/demo and from flagships to commercial markets. * Increase supply of sustainable biomass for bio-manufacturing in Europe. * Set incentives and targets for the manufacturing and use of bio-based products and materials. * Properly acknowledge, account for and incentivize the benefits of biogenic carbon, including the adjustment of the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology. https://zurl.co/LmRc
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Mario Draghi's report on EU competitiveness calls for a bold industrial policy that invests in digitalisation, green technology and other key industries. Here's our take on it and how we see the bioeconomy and bio-based industries helping to meet the challenges #Draghi #competitiveness #EU #resilience #greentransition