All Projects

Afterlife
  • Aerobic fermentation, Anaerobic fermentation, Bioplastics, CAPEX, Circular Economy, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Fermentation, H2020 BBI-RIA, Industrial sidestreams, LCA, Mixed culture, PHA, PHB, Passed projects, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Process waters, Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), WP leader

The AFTERLIFE project proposes a flexible, cost- and resource-efficient process for recovering and valorising the relevant fractions from wastewater.

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CarboSurf
  • 1G sugar, 2G oils, 2G sugar, 2G sugar - agriculture, Agricultural sidestreams, Biosurfactants, Custom manufacturing, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Detergents, Fatty acids, Fatty alcohols, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food, Food grade, Fucosylated carbohydrates, H2020 BBI-RIA, HMO, Lactose, MELs, Market sample production, Oils, Oils and derivatives, Personal and home care, Product recovery & purification, Rhamnolipids, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Sialylated carbohydrates, Sophorolipids, Specialty carbohydrates, Used cooking oil, Vegetable oils, WP leader, Xylolipids

The CARBOSURF project aims to develop new biobased processes as well as products and solves bottlenecks in the fermentative production of biobased biosurfactants and specialty carbohydrates. Specifically, it targets different glycolipid biosurfactants with a wide range of application fields and specialty carbohydrates, i.e. complex Human Milk Oligosaccharides that find applications as neutraceutical, pharmaceutical and cosmetic ingredients.

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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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iFermenter
  • 2G sugar, 2G sugar - forestry, Antimicrobial peptides, Finished projects, Food, Food ingredient, Food ingredients, Forestry waste, H2020 BBI-RIA, Partner, Peptides, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Proteins, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Wood, Woody sugars

iFermenter will render production of high value products with residual sugar stream highly efficient and cost-effective contributing to circular economy.

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NewPack
  • 2G sugar, 2G sugar - agriculture, Agricultural sidestreams, Biodegradable, Biomass pretreatment, Biomaterials, Bioplastics, Biopolymers, Cellulose, Cellulose nanowhiskers, Chitin, Chitin nanowhiskers, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food related sidestreams, Food waste, Forestry sidestreams, H2020 BBI-RIA, Nano additives, PHA, PHB, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Potato peel, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), WP leader, Wheat straw

A new circular economy value chain will be generated from agro-food wastes that will be exploited for the production of PHB, while designing and validating the process up to pilot scale.

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Prolific
  • Bakery products, Biochemical modification, Biomass pretreatment, Coffee ground, Coffee waste, Cosmetic ingredients, Extraction, Fibres, Finished projects, Food, Food ingredients, Food related sidestreams, Formulation, Green peas, H2020 BBI-RIA, Mushrooms, Partner, Peptides, Personal and home care, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Proteins, Scale-up (TRL 4-6)

The Prolific project will apply a range of processing technologies to agro-industrial residues of legumes, fungi and coffee in order to recover significant amounts of proteins/peptides, fibres and other value-added compounds.

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ReSolve
  • 1G sugar, Beet pulp pectin, Biosolvents, Bulk chemicals, Cellulose, Finished projects, Food related sidestreams, Forestry sidestreams, Glucose, Green chemistry, Green solvents, H2020 BBI-RIA, Heterogeneous catalysis, Partner, Process development (TRL 4-5), Reactive distillation, Scale-up, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Solvents, TMO

ReSolve sets out to replace two hazardous solvents – toluene and NMP (N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone) – with safer alternatives derived from non-food carbohydrates.

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SMARTBOX
  • Aromatics, Beech wood, Biocatalysis, Biodegradable, Biomaterials, Coordinator, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Enzyme engineering, Enzyme production, Enzymes, Exploitation, FDCA, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food, Forestry biomass, H2020 BBI-RIA, HMF, Hard wood, Lignin, Lignin biomass, Lignocellulose, Other feedstock, Oxidative catalysis, Polycarbonate building blocks, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Product recovery and purification, Reductive catalytic fractionation, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Soft wood, Specialty chemicals, Vanillin, WP leader

SMARTBOX will develop an advanced computational engineering platform specifically for oxidative enzymes. Relying on this platform, SMARTBOX will develop the one-enzyme conversion of HMF into FDCA and intermediates, and the one-enzyme conversion of lignin monomers into a potential biobased building block for polycarbonates and vanillin.

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USABLE PACKAGING
  • Biodegradable, Biomaterials, Bioplastics, Biopolymers, Finished projects, H2020 BBI-RIA, Industrial sidestreams, Mixed culture, PHA, PHB, Packaging, Partner, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Process waters, Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6)

USABLE PACKAGING project will establish a new value chain for bioplastics. This will be based on low-cost and widely-available feedstock, such as by-products and sidestreams from the food processing industry.

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