🧬 BIC welcomes the @ec.europa.eu's Biotech Act II, a key measure to scale up biomanufacturing across Europe. Europe has a narrow window to lead, besides pharma: think food, bio-based chemicals, materials & consumer products too. More on BIC's position here ➡️ 🔗 tinyurl.com/4ruf45fm

📢 📊 🌱 Europe now has solid, comparable data on where bio-based industries can actually win chemicals, polymers, packaging, textiles! 📃 Read our press release and the full reports here ➡️ tinyurl.com/2nskhzsb

As the private partner of the @cbe-ju.bsky.social, BIC reflects on a decade of collaboration with @ec.europa.eu and shares its perspective on shaping the model's future together🔗 tinyurl.com/y9z22kmf

86 European associations just issued a joint declaration calling for a bold, well-funded FP10 to close Europe's innovation gap and boost productivity. The window to act on the 2028–2034 MFF is narrow! Read our joint statement➡️ tinyurl.com/3b4d3r89

🌱 @cbe-ju.bsky.social’s latest annual report highlights progress in Europe’s circular bio-based economy. As CBE JU’s private sector partner, BIC connects industry and innovation, with BIC members driving impact as project beneficiaries. Read the full report ➡️ tinyurl.com/3x3mpha2

Learn how grass and manure can be transformed into bio-based products! 🌱 🐄 Join our webinar "Unlocking value from agricultural biomass" on 23 June 👉 tally.so/r/aQaelX @cbe-ju.bsky.social @biorefineryie.bsky.social @biconsortium.bsky.social @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu @bioeast-hub.bsky.social

📢 24 new CBE JU-funded projects have been launched! Backed by €172 million, they bring together 332 beneficiaries from 32 countries to scale up #competitive circular #biobased industries in Europe. SMEs will receive 47% of the awarded budget.

We've been in Portugal today with @cbe-ju.bsky.social promoting the CBE JU 2026 open call for proposals. More than €170m is available to help scale up #biobased innovations. We also visited companies at the technology hub Biocant Park. More info on the call here: www.cbe.europa.eu/open-calls-p...

Thanks to World Bio Markets Insights for highlighting our recent report on the opportunities for EU defence offered by dual-use of #biobased materials. At a time of geopolitical instability, this could be a win-win for EU defence & European companies worldbiomarketinsights.com/europe-eyes-...

At BIC, we see the upcoming EU procurement rules as a strategic opportunity for Europe to increase its resilience in a sustainable way - by turning to the bio-based industries for innovations and materials. We explain more in our latest publication biconsortium.eu/publication/...

Our Executive Director talks about what changed in his time away from the European bioeconomy, his thoughts on the current state of things - and what still needs to happen!

🤝 We’re at today’s @cbe-ju.bsky.social Networking Event, gathering those who want to collaborate in the 2026 open call. 💶 More than 170 million euros will go to projects innovating and scaling up in the bio-based industries across 13 topics. BIC partners w/ @ec.europa.eu on this initiative

Europe can’t afford to just react. We need to stay competitive! The bioeconomy (& biobased industries) are our strategic edge: less dependence on fossil imports, more innovation and a truly sustainable path forward. Europe’s next industrial revolution should be bio-based! 🎥 youtu.be/zes95p2lKVg

BIC welcomes the EIB's new Paris Alignment Framework. The use of food & feed crops is now ELIGIBLE for the production of biomaterials & biochemicals under certain conditions. A major step forward👏👏👏https://www.eib.org/en/publications/20250368-paris-alignment-framework-low-carbon-framework-v2

BIC is proud to support a joint statement, calling for agriculture and the bioeconomy to remain clearly recognised in the next EU Framework Programme - vital for ensuring continuity, clarity and the right conditions for innovation to thrive biconsortium.eu/media/bic-si...

👑BIC's Philippe Mengal had a royal audience, meeting King Charles at Windsor Castle for the Circular Bioeconomy Alliance (CBA) "Roundtables & Reception". CBA brought together bio-innovators, investment organisations & businesses on Monday to discuss what's needed to scale the circular bioeconomy.

Brought to our office for a visit by @cbe-ju.bsky.social this morning was the European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS) winner Evita Martensone. Evita's winning entry evaluated plant oils as biobased alternatives to synthetic UV filters, for possible use in sunscreens!

“The bioeconomy is not a panacea that solves everything, but it is an essential part of the solution,” says Dirk Carrez in this article in Agro & Chemistry, reflecting on his long career in the bioeconomy and the end of 14 years leading BIC www.agro-chemistry.com/articles/it-...

We're in Bucharest, Romania today for an Info Day for the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) @cbe-ju.bsky.social. Around 80 participants from industry, institutions and the R&I community were there to hear about the 💶funding opportunities in the 2026 call for proposals.

The Circular Bio-based Joint Undertaking - or CBE JU - is a public private partnership between the European Commission @ec.europa.eu & BIC (representing the private sector). The aim is to scale up innovation to commercial scale and market in Europe's biobased industries.

📽️This flagship biorefinery in the Netherlands is @cbe-ju.bsky.social project PEFerence. Project lead Avantium describes the success of 🤝💶mobilising public AND private money to get more #biobased products onto the market & the benefits to the local area youtu.be/72gal-qhoNI

The BIC Annual Report 2025 is here! Read about the many activities, events & projects we were involved in last year, as we structured operations to ensure all we do grows Europe's #biobased industries #business biconsortium.eu/publication/...

BIC member Michelin is taking the lead on this CBE JU flagship plant in France. Scaling up #biobased products, creating jobs, making Europe more sustainable & competitive - that's the public-private partnership in action! Let's keep the momentum! youtu.be/mM0JIaLaetk

We welcome Philippe Mengal as our new Executive Director. He previously headed up the Circular Biobased Europe Joint Undertaking (our public-private partnership w/ the @ec.europa.eu), so Philippe is very familiar with BIC & we are excited to have him at the helm. biconsortium.eu/media/philip...

💶Public & private capital combining to build more biorefineries scaling up bio-based innovations is just what Europe's bioeconomy needs! Our partnership with the European Commission - the CBE JU - has led to 19 flagship biorefineries. That's more sustainable biobased alternatives coming to market!

📽️🎞️🍿The BIC Matchmaking Event 2026 was our largest one ever! 🥳 There were a record number of 1-to-1 meetings and pitches. Many members came looking for potential partners for the 2026 CBE JU call for proposals. Watch some of the action www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ee...

BIC is a proud and engaged member of the European Bioeconomy Alliance. This event is another example of member associations joining forces to ensure EU policies strengthen Europe's bioeconomy.

BIC is a proud partner in BOOST4BIOEAST, which aims to increase bioeconomy deployment in the Central Eastern European and Baltic countries. It's great to see a diverse range of researchers, SMEs, start-ups and associations as winners in the Open Innovation Challenge!

Did you miss the ZWE-BIC webinar on Extended Producer Responsibility for food products this morning? Or did you like it so much that we must watch it again? We've got you covered. The webinar recording and Joan Marc Simon's presentation are now available 🔗⬇️ - w/ @biconsortium.bsky.social

Dual use - for both military AND civilian purposes - increasingly presents opportunities for industrial #biotechnology & #biomanufacturing, helping to enhancethe EU's strategic autonomy & #biobased businesses. We hosted a webinar on this very topic: www.agro-chemistry.com/articles/def...

💻⏰There's still time to join us for our FREE WEBINAR with @zerowasteeurope.eu on Extended Producer Responsibility for food products. Let's get food producers to help prevent European #biowaste from being incinerated or going to landfills! zerowasteeurope.eu/event/the-ca...

We'll soon release a report with @zerowasteeurope.eu on EPRFP - that is, making manufacturers, importers and retailers more responsible for food waste. To go through the report and learn more about how EPRFP could cut EU biowaste, register for our FREE WEBINAR zerowasteeurope.eu/event/the-ca...

Read about our participation in a new action group, bringing together the European Commission and stakeholders to tackle the main challenges affecting the 🧪chemicals sector. The Commission set up the group following the European Chemicals Industry Action Plan biconsortium.eu/media/bic-de...

Extended Producer Responsibility for food products would improve circular economy and put the burden of responsibility on the producers, rather than consumers. Join @biconsortium.bsky.social and ZWE's webinar on 22 January at 10:30 CET to learn more about this proposal. Register now zurl.co/POI4l

🧑‍💻👩‍💻Join us for a FREE WEBINAR Europeans create an average of 130kg of food waste per year. Despite EU regulations, > 75% ends up in landfills. Let's get food producers more involved in preventing it. Let's discuss Extended Producer Responsibility: zerowasteeurope.eu/event/the-ca...

We wish you a wonderful festive period and a great start to 2026. 🥂 Here's to another of doing all we can to advance Europe's bio-based industries, as we continually push for sustainable, greener alternatives. Let's make 2026 a year of bio-based revolution! youtu.be/soBciLJ_NDM

In our new policy brief "Financing the bio-based revolution: crossing the valleys of death" we discuss the financing problems faced by biomanufacturing in Europe - and list ambitious & concrete actions to overcome these financing issues biconsortium.eu/publication/...

Last month, we held the #biobased #financing event we co-organise with Tech Tour & Circular Valley. Helping connect innovative bio-based SMEs & microenterprises private funding a key goal of BIC. Read more in this Agro & Chemistry article 👉 www.agro-chemistry.com/articles/eur...

BIC is a founding member of the European Bioeconomy Alliance @eubioeconomy.bsky.social, a group of trade associations dedicated to advancing 🇪🇺's bioeconomy. Here's the Alliance's response to the new EU Bioeconomy Strategy www.bioeconomyalliance.eu/wp-content/u...

We welcome the publication of the EU's new Bioeconomy Strategy, however bolder actions are needed. Nevertheless, BIC stands ready to give all help and support with its implementation. You can read our full statement here biconsortium.eu/media/bic-re...

Following a BIC members only webinar on the future of bioplastics, some of our members (including @avantium.bsky.social) collaborated on this article in Agro & Chemistry www.agro-chemistry.com/articles/the...

At the the iGEM BioInnovations Summit in Paris today, BIC will be highlighting the need for European political actions that strengthen the industrial dimension of the bioeconomy, leading to more growth.The event is organised by @igemhq.bsky.social

On 13/10, we hosted our networking event for BIC Industry Members, where they could meet to discuss business, listen to guest speakers on the commercial & legislative opportunities in 🇪🇺's bioeconomy and take part in a variety of workshops. A valuable experience for driving #biobased markets

📣Do you have an innovative idea that can drive the future of the bioeconomy? If so, this competition targeting bioeconomy innovators in Central & Eastern Europe is an exciting opportunity! BIC is supporting the BIOEAST & BOOST4BIOEAST Open Innovation Challenge. More info👉 bioeast.eu/open-innovat...

🥇🏆1st place in our #biobased student innovation competition BISC-E is the team from Wageningen University @w-u-r.bsky.social for their use of algae to produce a natural UV filter for skin-protecting cosmetics. They’ll also receive a complimentary 1yr BIC Industry Membership for mentoring 👏👏👏

Work is in the final stages, ahead of the new EU Bioeconomy Strategy. Agata Kotkowska (DG ENV) is a guest speaker at our Industry Members Networking Event. She says, "Our goal is simple but bold – to make Europe the best place in the world to design, build & scale bio-based materials.”

Guest speaker at our networking event today, Brynne Stanton (WEF): "The bioeconomy is experiencing momentum across public & private sectors around the 🌎. It’s a source of national competitiveness & supply-side resilience. But, despite the innovation, commercial adoption & demand remains niche"

Our student innovation competition finalists from Greece, Team HYDROTWIN, has developed a digital twin platform to optimise hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) reactors that turn diverse biomass into renewable biocrude and fatty acids. 🏆Find out who will win on 13/10 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzZa...

📽️ Here's a video from another one of the finalists in our biobased student innovation competition, BISC-E. Team AllioNova from Ghent University (Belgium) focuses on converting leek waste into polyphenols using an innovative bioreactor to create a natural anti-aging cream. youtu.be/0yntF6Bj7eU

📄New report on Europe using first-generation agricultural biomass for produce bio-based energy and materials! Scientific evidence suggests concerns about using this biomass, such as starch, sugar and oilseed crops, is misplaced. biconsortium.eu/media/new-re...