All Projects

AC2GEN
  • (Inter)Cluster, 2G sugar, 2G sugar - agriculture, 2G sugar - industrial, Agricultural sidestreams, Biopolymers, Bulk chemicals, Carbon fibres, Chemical building blocks, Coating, Coordinator, Corn stover, DSP process development, Fermentation, In situ product recovery, Industrial sidestreams, Moonshot flanders-cSBO, Ongoing projects, Paper and cardboard, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Regional-flanders, WP leader

Acrylates from 2nd generation sugars: a powerful combination of fermentation, catalysis, and CO2 recycling

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CleanAlgae2Value
  • Algae, Biomass pretreatment, Bioplastics, Biopolymers, Biorefinery, CCU, CO2, Case study, Coatings, Consumer goods, DSP process development, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Extraction, Food, Food and drink packaging, Food ingredients, Formulation, Gas fermentation, HEurope - CBE JU, HEurope-CBEJU-IA, Investment project, Membrane filtration, Partner, Plastic waste, Polymers, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Proteins, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Task leader, WP leader

Demonstrating a cost competitive, sustainable, scalable intensified micro-algae bioprocess for the production of food-grade medium value, carbon negative ingredients exceeding Market Standards.

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LUCRA
  • 2G sugar, 2G sugar - food, 2G sugar - forestry, Biocatalysis, Biomass pretreatment, Bioplastics, Biopolymers, Coordinator, Fermentation, Forestry sidestreams, HEurope - CBE JU, HEurope-CBEJU-IA, Municipal solid waste, Ongoing projects, Other feedstock, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Product recovery and purification, WP leader

LUCRA will exploit Municipal Solid Waste and Wood waste as feedstocks for the large scale production of platform building block chemicals at high yield with significant industrial end-user interest using a circular bioeconomy biorefinery approach.

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POLYMEER
  • Automotive applications, Biocatalysis, Biochemical modification, Biomass pretreatment, Biomaterials, Bioplastics, Biopolymers, Biorefinery, Brewers spent grain, Enzymatic conversion, Food related sidestreams, Fractionation, Green chemistry, HEurope - CBE JU, HEurope - CBE JU - RIA, Low TRL, Ongoing projects, Polymers, Process development (TRL 4-5), Task leader, Textile fibres

Brewers spent grain as main by-product for development of novel, high-performance bio-based polymers, polymer blends and co-polymers. 

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UPCYCLE
  • Biopolymers, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Fermentation, Food and drink packaging, HEurope-IA, HEurope-Other, Industrial sidestreams, Ongoing projects, Partner, Plastic waste, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, WP leader

UPCYCLE aims to demonstrate the feasibility (TRL7) of novel circular and renewable plastic value chains, accelerating the market uptake of polymers.

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BioBase4SME
  • Agriculture, Aromatics, Biopolymers, Bulk chemicals, Chemical building blocks, Coordination, Coordinator, Enzymes, Fertilizers, Finished projects, Food, Food ingredients, Innovation vouchers, Interreg NWE, Networking, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development, SME support, Scale-up, Specialty chemicals, Sugars, Value chain building, WP leader

The BioBase4SME project intends to help Start-ups and SME to overcome technological and non-technological barriers to bring their innovation to market.

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BIOCON-CO2
  • Acrylic deratives, Alcohols, Biocatalysis, Bioplastics, Biopolymers, Bulk chemicals, CCU, CO, CO2, Feed, Feed additives, Feed ingredients, Fermentation, Finished projects, Formic acid, Gas fermentation, Gasses, H2, H2020-RIA, Lactic acid, Mobile unit, PHA, PHB, Partner, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Specialty chemicals, Steel mill gasses, Waste gasses

BIOtechnological processes based on microbial platforms for the CONversion of CO2 from iron&steel industry into commodities for chemicals and plastics

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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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CO2PERATE
  • (Inter)Cluster, Bioplastics, Biopolymers, CCU, CO2, Catalisti-ISBO, Feed, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food, Formic acid, Gas fermentation, Gasses, H2, Low TRL, Other feedstock, PHA, PHB, Partner, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery and purification, Regional-flanders, Single cell protein, Specialty chemicals, Waste gasses

CO2PERATE aims to develop catalytic technologies to convert CO2 into formic acid, using renewable electricity. Formic acid will subsequently be used as building block for the biosynthetic production of value-added chemicals, as a building block for the chemical industry, or as a potential carrier for energy storage.

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