All Projects

CIRCALGAE
  • Algae, Biomass pretreatment, Cosmetic ingredients, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Feed, Feed additives, Feed grade, Feed ingredients, Food, Food grade, Food ingredients, HEurope-IA, HEurope-Other, Ongoing projects, Partner, Personal and home care, Product recovery and purification, Proteins, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Task leader

CIRCular valorisation of industrial ALGAE waste streams into high-value products to foster future sustainable blue biorefineries in Europe.

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ROBOCOOP-EU
  • 2G sugar, 2G sugar - food, 2G sugar - industrial, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Extraction, Food related sidestreams, Fruit waste, HEurope-CBEJU-IA, Ongoing projects, Partner, Personal and home care, Product recovery and purification, Specialty chemicals

ROBOCOOP-EU aims to develop and deploy regional circular bio-based business models for the valorisation of waste streams from three agricultural sectors: grape, olive and stone fruit.

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WASTE2FUNC
  • 2G sugar, 2G sugar - agriculture, 2G sugar - food, Agricultural sidestreams, Agricultural waste, Biosurfactants, Bulk chemicals, Coordinator, Demonstration (TRL 5-7), Detergent ingredients, Detergents, Fatty acids, Fermentation, Food related sidestreams, Food waste, H2020 BBI-IA-DEMO, Lactic acid, Market sample production, Oils, Oils and derivatives, Ongoing projects, PLA, Personal and home care, Polylactic acid, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Product recovery and purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Starch, Used cooking oil, Vegetable oils

The WASTE2FUNC project aims to resolve supply chain hurdles towards the efficient conversion of food (crop) waste into two types of biobased functional molecules.

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AppliSurf
  • (Inter)Cluster, 1G sugar, Biosurfactants, Catalisti-SBO, Detergents, Fatty acids, Fatty alcohols, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food, Glucose, Green chemistry, High throughput screening, Industrial biotechnology, Industry user group, Oils, Oils and derivatives, Ozonolysis, Personal and home care, Personal care, Product recovery & purification, Regional-flanders, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Specialty carbohydrates, Vegetable oils, WP leader

Screening the application potential of a yeast-based biosurfactant portfolio. In AppliSurf a combination of genetic modification, fermentation development/optimization and green chemistry will be applied to enable commercial production at acceptable cost of an innovative and broad portfolio of biosurfactant structures.

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BioCluster
  • AO-NIB, Biomaterials, Bioplastics, Biosurfactants, Bulk chemicals, Finished projects, Lubricants, Partner, Personal and home care, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development, Regional-flanders, SME support, Solvents, Specialty chemicals, VLAIO/AO, Value chain building

The main goal of the project is to facilitate the transition of the Flemish industry to a sustainable, biobased economy by building a competitive biocluster of companies that are able to build new value chains.
The project is primarily aimed at companies from the agro-industry, technology developers and the chemical sector.

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Biosurfing
  • 1G sugar, Biosurfactants, Cosmetic ingredients, Detergents, FP7, Fatty acids, Fermentation, Finished projects, Glucose, Nano technology, Oils, Oils and derivatives, Personal and home care, Personal care, Process development, Product recovery & purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Sophorolipids, Vegetable oils, WP leader

This project aims to create new-to-nature and tailor-made biosurfactants through metabolic engineering of the unconventional yeast Starmerella bombicola.
Surfactants or surface active agents are applied in a wide range of industries and products e.g. cleaning, personal care, cosmetics, agriculture, oil recovery, paper industry.

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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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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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Marisurf
  • 1G sugar, Biomedical applications, Biopolymers, Biosurfactants, Cosmetic ingredients, Detergents, Emulsifiers, Fermentation, Finished projects, Food, Food grade, Food ingredients, H2020-RIA, Nano technology, Oil, Oils, Oils and derivatives, Partner, Personal and home care, Polymers and packaging and biomaterials, Process development (TRL 4-5), Product recovery & purification, Scale-up (TRL 4-6), Specialty chemicals, Vegetable oils

The MARISURF project will use marine bacterial strains to produce new SAs. To ensure the newly discovered SAs satisfy their requirements and demands, MARISURF will place the industrial end-users in a leading role in guiding the search for new SAs.

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