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Hayk Ghazaryan (18), Tigran Avanyan (17) and Hovhannes Sergey Manukyan (18), have won the CBE JU bioeconomy prize at the 2026 European Union Contest for Young Scientists (EUCYS). 

272 project proposals were submitted to the 2026 CBE JU call by the 22 September deadline, requesting a total of €1.65 billion in CBE JU funding. 

Europe’s bio-based food and feed innovation is moving beyond the laboratory. Across 47 projects, CBE JU has provided €287.8 million in EU funding for new food and feed ingredients.

The meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries council will center discussions on research and innovation as a way to build a more sustainable, resilient and competitive European agriculture sector.

Ireland’s first on-farm demonstration-scale biorefinery integrating grass biorefining and anaerobic digestion was inaugurated in County Cork, Ireland, earlier this week. 

From nutritious food and feed ingredients to bio-based materials and cosmetics, algae are the source of an expanding range of products,positioning them as one of Europe's most promising resources.

Turning farm waste into new income streams: Europe's primary producers get a stake in the bioeconomy as participants in CBE JU-funded projects.

From today, the first provisions of the EU's Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) begin to apply. 

New CBE JU publication highlights how the bioeconomy is shaping Europe's future industrial landscape.

The new CBE JU project portfolio dashboard brings together project-reported data in one interactive tool, offering a portfolio-wide view of activities funded by CBE JU and its predecessor, BBI JU.