All Projects

Bio Base NWE
  • Biocatalysis, Biomass pretreatment, Coordinator, Fermentation, Finished projects, Green chemistry, Innovation vouchers, Interreg NWE, Investment project, Networking, Process development, Product recovery & purification, SME support, Scale-up, Value chain building, WP leader

The project aims to accelerate the growth of the biobased economy, EU and local partners joined forces by providing financial, technological, training, networking and political support to enterprises in North West Europe (NWE) innovating in biobased products and processes.

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Bio Base Release
  • Coordinator, EFRO/ERDF, Fermentation, Finished projects, Investment project, Product recovery and purification, Regional-flanders

Investment in additional process and analysis equipment to simplify and make fermentation and purification of intracellularly formed products more efficient.

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BioKatalyse
  • AO-NIB, Biocatalysis, Coordinator, Finished projects, Process development, Regional-flanders, SME support, VLAIO/AO, Value chain building, WP leader

The aim of BIOKATALYSE is to acquaint traditional chemical industry with the Key Enabling Technology Biocatalysis. Biocatalysis is a technology that uses enzymes instead of chemical catalysts to catalyse or speed up chemical processes. The target group is the Flemish chemical industry that is mainly making use of conventional chemical conversion techniques.

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ChitoBioEngineering
  • 1G sugar, Agriculture, Bacterial, Biopolymers, Chitin, Chito-oligosaccharides, Chitosans, Coordinator, E. coli, ERA-IB, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food related sidestreams, Glucose, Process development (TRL 4-5), Sucrose, Sugar, WP leader

The ChitoBioEngineering project aims at establishing biotechnological ways of producing fully defined, partially acetylated chitosan oligomers. This will be achieved through genetic, metabolic, and enzyme engineering.

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EFRO: Demonstration Equipment for Industrial Biotechnology
  • Coordinator, Custom manufacturing, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), EFRO/ERDF, Fermentation, Finished projects, Industrial biotechnology, Infrastructure, Innovation, Investment project, SME support, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), WP leader

Europe, Flanders and the Province of East-Flanders invest €1,27 million in new equipment for Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant. These funds were used to purchase and install three new bioreactors with auxiliary equipment and software: two with a volume of 1.500L and one with a volume of 15.000L.

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FUCATIL
  • (Inter)Cluster, 2G sugar, 2G sugar - agriculture, 2G sugar - industrial, Acrylic deratives, Agricultural sidestreams, Automotive, Biopolymers, Bulk chemicals, Carbon fibres, Chemical building blocks, Coordinator, Corn stover, DSP process development, Fermentation, Finished projects, In situ product recovery, Industrial sidestreams, Lactic acid, Moonshot flanders-cSBO, Paper and cardboard, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Regional-flanders, WP leader

Full Carbon Utilization: Conversion of abundant Flemish waste streams into platform chemicals using advanced separation and catalytic technologies

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Glaukos
  • Biodegradable, Coating, Coordinator, Fermentation, Finished projects, Glycerol, H2020 BBI-RIA, Polymers, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Textile fibres, WP leader

Glaukos will develop innovative textile fibres and textile coatings that reconcile an excellent environmental performance with adequate technical characteristics.

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IB2Market
  • 1G sugar, Agricultural sidestreams, Biosurfactants, Bola sophorolipids, Coordinator, Detergents, FP7, Fatty acids, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food, Fucosylated carbohydrates, HMOs, Lactose, Oils, Oils and derivatives, Personal and home care, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery & purification, Scale-up, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Specialty carbohydrates, Sugar, Vegetable oils, WP leader

IB2Market aims to bring industrial biotechnology from the research lab to the market and to solve the bottle-necks in industrialization. The project covers process development, scale up, market exploration and the drafting of a valorization plan to support a successful market introduction.

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Pilots4U
  • Coordinator, Database, Finished projects, H2020 BBI-CSA, Industrial biotechnology, Infrastructure, Infrastructure network, Interregional learning, Key Enabling Technologies (KETs), Networking, Open access, Policy, SME support, Shared pilot facility, WP leader

Pilots4U aims to setup one very visible, easy accessible network of open access pilot and multipurpose demo-infrastructures for the European bio-economy.

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