BRILIAN

The overall aim of BRILIAN is to validate a set of actions that will allow to establish long-term bio-based value chains and promote cooperative business models encompassing primary producers and other actors. To achieve this, the partners are looking to:

• forge robust collaborations, leading to the adoption of cooperative business models in the primary sector;
• map and assess trade-offs and synergies in the bioeconomy and benchmark where the project has improved on existing solutions in the bioeconomy and other sectors;
• minimise potential negative environmental impacts of the bioeconomy by setting up and optimising sustainable value chains;
• create a framework for assessing value chains;
• support the design of bio-based business models for the development of rural areas;
• validate 10 bio-based value chains for the production of bioproducts;
• establish a roadmap for adopting BRILIAN solutions in other regions by creating synergies with other initiatives.

In the long term, BRILIAN will support the development of a more sustainable, secure and competitive bioeconomy by helping to achieve objectives laid down in the EU’s Bioeconomy Strategy, Common Agricultural Policy and Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda related to the adoption of sustainable, cooperative bio-based business models. Its contribution to this involves the following:

• identification of barriers to the development of bio-based value chains in rural areas;
• conversion of three value chains into 10 sustainable bio-based businesses producing 10 value-added bioproducts, including food, animal feed, plastics, lubricants, herbicides, fertilisers, cosmetics and adhesives;
• production of more than 33 tonnes of oil and annual recovery of 450 tonnes of starch and 1,000 kg of rapeseed waste to make bio-based products;
• recirculation of 140,000 m³ of water a year to process starch;
• recovery of more than 55 hectares of land through regenerative agricultural practices;
• conclusion of 42 agreements between primary producers and industrial actors;
• creation of more than 30 jobs, involvement of around 100 farmers and primary producers and development of six campaigns and training actions in rural areas.