Seeing is believing!

Hop on the shuttle bus from Brussels Airport to the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (BBEPP) and discover what scale-up is and looks like!

PROGRAMME

9:00 – 9:10 am          Welcome & coffee

9:10 – 9:30 am          Introduction to “Pilots4U powered by COPILOT”
                                         by Stef Denayer, Pilots4U Stakeholder Relations Manager 

9:30 – 10:10 am        Introduction to the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant
                                         by Hendrik Waegeman, Head of Business Operations

10:10 – 10:40 am      Seeing is believing: Guided tour of the facilities

10:40 – 11:00 am      Q&A

The study visit is part of the “Scale -up & Growth” programme offered by the “Pilots4U powered by COPILOT” project, they are organised back-to-back with Pitch Perfect and Boost the EU Bioeconomy 2024. The study visit is organised in collaboration with the ShapingBio project. A shuttle bus will depart from Sheraton Brussels Airport at 8am sharp on Wednesday December 4th and will be back at Brussels Airport around 3pm.

The COPILOT project is a CBE-JU CSA project that ill update, expand and make the database of Open Access Pilot and Demo Infrastructures for the European Bioeconomy future-proof and self sustainable through co-creation. Furthermore the project will grow, train and nurture the stakeholder communities linked to this database by means of the “Scale-up & Growth” and the “Exchange & Connect” Programmes.

ShapingBio, a CBE-JU CSA project, creates a better understanding and information basis of the bioeconomy innovation eco-system by providing a comprehensive mapping and analysis of initiatives, structures, policy instruments and key gaps across the EU macro-regions and different sectors related to policy and governance, applied R&D and technology transfer, collaboration (cross-sectoral) and financing.

Registration is mandatory and can be done by sending an email to Anneleen De Vriendt.

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