Ten international startups will present their seaweed-based food and packaging innovations during the Seaweed Innovation Event on June 8. For eight weeks, seaweed startups from all over the world had the opportunity to submit their pitch as part of the North Sea Farmers Seaweed Innovation Challenge. They received 30 entries, covering a wide…
From May 22, the new subsidy round of the Circular Economy Knowledge and Innovation Agenda will be open for the development of circular products, services and processes. A total of 2,5 million euros in support is available for developments within the manufacturing industry, construction and consumer goods. There will be an information meeting on June 1. We are currently using…
Even in the years between 2030 and 2050, biomass will remain an important energy source for sectors where direct electrification is not or hardly possible. The alternative, the use of power-to-x energy sources, leads to significant additional costs. This is stated by the German Biomass Research Center (DBFZ) and the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ) following the SoBio research project. In…
More and more entrepreneurs are applying for subsidies for projects that contribute to a circular economy. The number of circular projects has never been as large as in 2021. The number increased by more than 30% compared to 2020. The projects mainly concern plastics, chemicals and building materials. This is evident from the annual RVO Circular Economy monitoring report.…
More than 60 companies and projects active in sustainable energy will open their doors to the public on September 16, 2023. All interested parties are welcome to discover the world behind the socket and the thermostat and learn where electricity and heat come from. come and how that energy keeps…
Many people are concerned about our forests. Is there enough wood to build houses? And where does that wood come from? Probos and Centrum Hout have presented figures on the origin of construction wood in handy Infograhics for PIANOo and RVO. This shows that the Netherlands imports 4,5 million cubic meters of wood for construction every year.…
Wageningen Food & Biobased Research has developed a binder-free technology to make building panels from vegetable waste streams, without the need for glues or resins of fossil origin. Now that the housing construction challenge in the Netherlands coincides with ambitious climate goals, bio-based construction is receiving a lot of attention. Materials made from natural fibers from local residual flows can play a role in this…
State Secretary Heijnen (IenW) and Minister Jetten (Climate and Energy) inform the House of Representatives about the status of the introduction of the sustainability criteria for bio raw materials in regulations. In addition, the letter is about: PDF document | 10 pages | 745 kBParliamentary document: Letter to Parliament | 12-05-2023
On Tuesday, April 25, the webinar was “The bio boiler in the countryside. An alternative to fossil.” You can view this below. The NBKL (trade association for suppliers of bio boilers) organized the webinar. Maarten Willemen of the AVIH (trade association for entrepreneurs in the forest and timber sector), Jos de Kleuver, Gijs Kuneman of the Bos Groups (associations of and for…
The webinar 'From Biomass to Chemistry' took place on May 9, in which Tom Lammers presented the results of his Thesis research on the challenges in setting up a biomass-to-syngas value chain for the Dutch chemistry. The interactive nature of the webinar provided a platform for a panel of experts to discuss the various statements…
On May 2, the second call for project proposals of the European (Horizon 2020) project INN-PRESSME was opened. This allows small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and research and technology institutions (RTOs) to apply for co-financing for the scale-up of their new products from bio-based materials, which match and even exceed the performance of fossil materials. In total, INN-PRESSME…
The European Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) has issued a new call for projects. This call has a budget of 215 million euros for research that contributes to the realization of a circular, biobased economy in Europe. There are eighteen topics, ranging from biobased packaging to the valorization of residual flows from aquaculture.…
CBE JU published its second call for project proposals. A total of €215.5 million will be dedicated to advancing competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe across 18 topics. All stakeholders of the circular bio-based industries ecosystem can apply by September 20, 2023, 17:00 PM Brussels time. 18 funding topics to support three CBE JU objectives The…
The World Bioenergy Association (WBA) invites stakeholders from the international bioenergy sector to come together to discuss best practice in sustainability and has published a paper examining the Glasgow Declaration on Sustainable Bioenergy and key sustainability issues. The new document, “Transparency, trust and best practice of Responsible biomass…
The 2023 opening round for the subsidy Stimulation of Sustainable Energy Production and Climate Transition (SDE++) has been postponed until September this year. Minister Jetten of Climate and Energy announced this in a letter to Parliament that will be sent to the House of Representatives this week. The reason for the postponement is that the government has not yet received the green light from the European Commission...
On biomassfeiten.nl you will find news, background information and fact sheets about bio-raw materials. The fact sheet 'Circular bioeconomy' shows that wood is a sustainable raw material. More factsheets: https://www.biomassafeiten.nl/factsheets/
We try to keep our waste to a minimum. What remains is collected separately and processed into biomass. Marcel Meijer from Hof aan Zee in Koudekerke. Today, the Netherlands has 15 green MICHELIN stars. There are no restaurants that lost their green star. Restaurants that are committed to the development of…
