Bio-Innovation Support for Entrepreneurs throughout North-West European regions
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The BioBase4SME network, representing many leading bio-based economy experts, will advise SMEs from across North-West Europe on how to develop new ideas into marketable products. The BioBase4SME project intends to help Start-ups and SME to overcome technological and non-technological barriers to bring their innovation to market. The project offers:
- Professional Training and Workshops
- Innovation Biocamps in the years 2017, 2018, 2019
- Innovation vouchers
The support offered through the voucher system can consist of:
- Technical assistance such as scale-up to pilot scale
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Techno-economic evaluation
- Market research
- Feedstock analysis
- Social acceptance
- Business planning and business plan support
- …
or a combination thereof.
Contact your regional Bio-Innovation Agent (see list below) or go to www.nweurope.eu for the full project information.
PARTNERS and their SERVICES
- AC3A, FR
- Bio-Innovation Agent for France: Pascal Dagron
- Services: Social acceptance, Training, Workshops
- Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant, BE
- Project Coordinator: Tanja Meyer – +32 (0) 492 25 55 37
- Project Assistance: Charlotte Gijselinck – +32 (0)9 355 70 01
- Services: Process development and scale-up incl. techno-economic evaluation
- CLIB2021, DE
- Bio-Innovation Agent for Germany: Katrin Kriebs
- Services: Networking, Training, Workshops
- Flanders Biobased Valley, BE
- Bio-Innovation Agent for Flanders: Sofie Dobbelaere
- Services: Networking, Training, Workshops
- Materia Nova, BE
- Bio-Innovation Agent for Wallonia: Olivier Talon
- Services: Life-Cycle Assessment + Eco-Design, Training, Workshops
- NNFCC, UK
- Bio-Innovation Agent for UK: Lucy Montgomery
- Services: Market research, business plan support, training, workshops
- REWIN, NL
- Bio-Innovation Agent for The Netherlands: Dennis van der Pas
- Services: Application testing, training, workshops, networking
- TCBB Resource, IE
- Bio-Innovation Agent for Ireland: Bart Bonsall
- Services: pilot equipment for anaerobic digestion and pyrolysis, workshops
- University of York, UK
- Contact BioVale: Elspeth Bartlet
- Services: design and delivery of the Innovation Biocamps
BioBase4SME is supported by INTERREG North-West Europe (NWE)
INTERREG NWE is a European Territorial Cooperation Programme funded by the European Commission (through the European Fund for Regional Development, EFRD) with the ambition to make the North-West Europe area a key economic player and an attractive place to work and live, with high levels of innovation, sustainability and cohesion. It invests EUR 370 million of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in activities based on the cooperation of organisations from eight countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.