Rob Beekers, representing the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), CBE JU’s private partner, was elected Chair of the Governing Board for a period of two years in the Governing Board’s meeting yesterday. He was previously the Vice-Chair of the CBE JU Governing Board and is currently the Chair of the BIC Governance Board.
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU), a €2 billion public-private partnership advancing the European bio-based sector, recently hosted its first CBE JU Stakeholder Forum (CBESF23) focused on pushing the boundaries of innovation, fostering sustainability and creating new business models to help shift Europe from fossil-based to bio-based production and consumption. The event on 6-7 December in The Egg venue (Brussels) brought together industry leaders, experts, researchers, policymakers and enthusiasts from Europe and beyond.
We are thrilled to welcome you to the first CBE JU Stakeholder Forum in only 21 hours! Get ready to dive into what's next for the European bio-based sector together with 500+ stakeholders from all over Europe and beyond.
Sixty industry and opinion leaders, policymakers, leading researchers, and many other CBE JU community members will take the stage during the CBESF23 to lead the conversations.
Are you in charge of communication in a BBI or CBE JU-funded project? Do you work for an organisation involved in such a project? Join the CBE JU communicators network to share best practice, boost your communications and collectively raise awareness about the important role of the bio-based sector in the sustainable future of Europe.
Lucas Sousa Dória and Tiago Fernandes Vieira, the winners of the EUCYS 2022 Bioeconomy Prize, visited Brussels at the invitation of CBE JU in September 2023. This visit aimed to introduce their innovative research project to key policymakers within the European institutions.
Elisa Jääskeläinen won the EUCYS 2023 bioeconomy prize for her work on optimising the pre-treatment of cellulose nanocrystals. This prize is a visit to Brussels with CBE JU to present her project to representatives of the European institutions, EU, and national policymakers and stakeholders of the circular bio-based sector.
The CBE JU Programme Office has received three project proposals by the 4 October deadline for the 2023-2 call dedicated to supporting activities for the New European Bauhaus Academy. Applicants have requested €1.7 million in CBE JU funding against the indicative call budget of €1 million. Evaluation of the project proposals will take place in October 2023, and applicants will receive the call results in the first quarter of 2024.
