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The 2015 Call for Proposals, worth €206 million in funding from the BBI JU and additional industry investment, was split into two parts:
- 2015.1 - Flagship Call: Launched on 19 May 2015, the €100 million Call focused on three Flagship topics – lignocellulosic feedstock, valorisation of cellulose and innovative processes for sugar recovery and conversion from municipal solid waste.
Two flagship projects kicked of in 2016:
- BIOSKOH: Innovation Stepping Stones for a novel European Second Generation BioEconomy
- EXILVA: Flagship demonstration of an integrated plant towards large scale supply and market assessment of Microfibrillated cellulose
2015.2 - Research and Innovation Actions, Demonstration and Support Actions: Launched on 25 August 2015, the second part of the 2015 Call worth €106 million in funding focused on Demonstration Actions and Research and Innovation Actions.
The first 3 BBI Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs) were launched in 2016:
- BioCannDo: Bioeconomy Awareness and Discourse Project
- BIOCOM: Increase public awareness of bio-based products and applications supporting the growth of the European bioeconomy
- STAR4BBI: Standards and Regulations for the Bio-based Industry
11 RIA Projects kicked off:
- BIOrescue: Enhanced bioconversion of agricultural residues through cascading use
- EFFORTE: Efficient forestry by precision planning and management for sustainable environment and cost-competitive bio-based industry
- EnzOx2: New enzymatic oxidation/oxyfunctionalization technologies for added value biobased products
- HYPERBIOCOAT: High performance biomass extracted functional hybrid polymer coatings for food, cosmetic and medical device packaging
- InDIRECT: Direct and indirect biorefinery technologies for conversion of organic sidestreams into multiple marketable products
- LIBBIO: Lupinus mutabilis for Increased Biomass from marginal lands and value for BIOrefineries
- LIBRE: Lignin Based Carbon Fibres for Composites
- MACROCASCADE: Cascading Marine Macroalgal Biorefinery
- NEOCEL: Novel processes for sustainable cellulose-based materials
- TECH4EFFECT: Techniques and Technologies for Effective Wood Procurement
- Zelcor: Zero Waste Ligno-Cellulosic Biorefineries by Integrated Lignin Valorisation
8 DEMOs received BBI JU funding:
- AgriMax: Agri and food waste valorisation co-ops based on flexible multi-feedstocks biorefinery processing technologies for new high added value applications
- BIOFOREVER: BIO-based products from FORestry via Economically Viable European Routes
- DEMETER: Demonstrating more efficient enzyme production to increase biogas yields
- FUNGUSCHAIN: Valorisation of mushroom agrowastes to obtain high value products
- GreenProtein: Revalorisation of vegetable processing industry remnants into high-value functional proteins and other food ingredients
- GreenSolRes: Demonstration of solvent and resin production from lignocellulosic biomass via the platform chemical levulinic acid
- LIPES: Life Integrated Process for the Enzymatic Splitting of triglycerides
- PULPACKTION: Optimised moulded pulp for renewable packaging solutions
