BIORADAR

The main aim of BIORADAR is to develop a comprehensive monitoring system to assess the circularity and the environmental and social impact of bio-based industrial systems. This will be achieved by reaching the following goals:

• assessment of the environmental impact, indirect land use change risks and carbon emissions of bio-based industrial systems;
• identification of opportunities for circularity, the definition of circularity indicators and the development of a circularity assessment framework for bio-based industrial systems;
• economic assessment of climate change mitigation strategies in bio-based industrial systems;
• definition of social impact indicators and evaluation of trade-offs and synergies between economic and social objectives;
• development of a digital monitoring system to evaluate trade-offs between and interconnectivity of all circularity, environmental and social impacts and to serve as a decision-making tool for all relevant stakeholders;
• upscaling and replicating the tools, benchmarking and provision of policy recommendations.

To connect bio-based industrial system stakeholders from different value chains, BIORADAR will provide metrics for every step of the innovation process. This will improve bio-based systems from an economic, social and environmental viewpoint.

BIORADAR’s set of digital tools will constitute a one-stop-shop for resources to help companies, policymakers, and investors understand bio-based systems' environmental and social impact. The tools will be tested and deployed within three industrial environments (bio-based textiles, fertilisers, and packaging).

BIORADAR defines specifications and standardised solutions for bio-based products and processes that can facilitate industry agreements on circularity and sustainability through increased data exchange among value chain actors and enable the development of new types of business.

To give companies, decision-makers and consumers confidence in new bio-based materials and products, BIORADAR will develop:

• a bio-based transition indicator (BTI) framework;
• a position paper on data sharing from the BTI platform;
• datasets on the demonstration of digital tools in industrial environments;
• standardisation activities for bio-based systems based on the project results.