HORIZON 2020
La Commission européenne a publié le sixième appel à projets du programme de soutien aux industries biosourcées dans le cadre de l’entreprise commune Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking (H2020-BBI-JTI-2019) sur les 21 sujets suivants pour un budget indicatif global de 135 millions d’euros :
- Scale up conversion of lignin into valuable compounds for application in specific market sectors
- Produce components for various materials, including for food and feed, from microalgae
- Valorise the organic fraction of municipal solid waste through an integrated biorefinery at commercial level
- Use tree species and/or varieties to create new bio-based value chains
- Apply technological combinations to valorise all components of biomass feedstock
- Develop breakthrough technologies to improve the cost-effectiveness and sustainability of pre-treatment steps within biorefining operations
- Apply microorganisms and/or enzymes to resolve end-of-life issues of plastics
- Develop surface or bulk treatments for improved wood-based materials
- Convert plant oils and fats into safe high-added-value products for various applications including food and personal care
- Improve biorefinery operations through process intensification and new end products
- Model the composition of bio-based residual streams and its evolution to optimise its management and processing
- Produce bio-based functional ingredients and additives for high-end markets
- Demonstrate bio-based pesticides and/or biostimulant agents for sustainable increase in agricultural productivity
- Produce high-performance bio-based alternatives to harmful products or processes to protect and enhance human health and the environment
- Develop bio-based high-performance materials for various and demanding applications
- Develop sustainable bio-based materials for high-volume consumer products
- Develop bio-based fibres and/or functional molecules to improve the performance of textile products
- Assist brand owners to ‘switch to bio-based’
- Establish methods and communication for applying mass balance principles to attribute biomass co-feedstock to products
- Shaping the bio-based economy through a participatory approach
- Empower SME clusters to bring SMEs ‘across the valley of death’