BIOntier

• Develop innovative and circular designs for sustainability, focusing on enabling circularity to address the end-of-life challenges in end-use sectors.
• Implement the European Commission’s safe-and-sustainable-by-design framework.
• Develop and validate highly innovative and sustainable materials for new scalable use cases.
• Promote high-throughput manufacturing technologies and prototyping.
• Implement sustainability assessment and end-of-life management strategies.
• Accelerate awareness, innovation, and market uptake of scalable bio-based solutions.
• Reinforce the integration of bio-based research and innovation throughout industrial bio-based systems.
• Ensure the integration of circularity and environmental sustainability requirements, contributing to climate neutrality and zero pollution ambition in the development and implementation of bio-based research and innovation, while additionally facilitating societal acceptance.
   

BIOntier aims to generate economic growth, create jobs and industrial leadership, enhance environmental protection, and increase the European Union's industry competitiveness via these impacts: 

• Strengthen human capital in research and innovation by disseminating the learned skills to students and engineers, furthermore, preparing training packages to be used for education and training.
• Encourage the diffusion of knowledge and open science by fostering collaboration, accelerating innovation, offering transparency on the technical procedures, and promoting the involvement of society and end users in the co-creation of research and innovation agendas and contents.
• Keep up with key technological trends by responding to the increased demand for cost-effective, energy-efficient, recyclable, and lightweight materials and improved manufacturing processes.
• Create a high impact in the use of bio-based composites due to the involvement of relevant industrial players, such as the automotive and aerospace sectors.
• Promote employment by addressing the need for the industries to stay competitive, investing heavily in research and innovation, as well as creating more skilled and high-quality knowledge jobs. The adoption of BIOntier technology in larger volume products would help to maintain these jobs and the industries to expand their activities.
• Demonstrate the advantages of adopting bio-based composites from the perspectives of viability and sustainability by analysing the costs and market acceptance of the developed solutions to ensure a reduction in time-to-market.
• Improve quality of life with safe and environmentally friendly technologies.
• Enhance consumer experiences by extending component lifetime.