Scaling up bio-based industries can strengthen the EU’s strategic autonomy and competitiveness, foster innovation and create growth and jobs.
The study focuses on three product classes within the bio-based industry that demonstrate significant potential for scaling up: (i) bio-based materials and chemicals, (ii) innovative food and feed ingredients and (iii) bio-based soil nutrients and enhancers.
Key recommendations include leveraging Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking flagship grant applications to build a pipeline of promising projects, expanding the European Circular Bioeconomy Fund model to enable high-risk investment in early-stage bio-based ventures, and creating an eligibility checker for bioeconomy and circular economy projects.
Tech4Biowaste (A DYNAMIC DATABASE OF RELEVANT TECHNOLOGIES OF BIO-WASTE UTILISATION) was an EU-funded project which created a database providing a comprehensive technology overview for the valorisation of bio-waste. Businesses can promote their technologies and stakeholders can search for the most appropriate technology for their particular feedstock.
The EU SMILE CITY project has come up with Pilot, an off-grid PV panels e-bike charging station made using as many recycled materials as possible. Hear experts from various fields and countries describe the project, the materials and components developed, their performance and their use.
This #EURegionsWeek 2025 side event will showcase how Europe’s circular value chains can become more inclusive, resilient and sustainable, with a focus on microelectronics, resource recovery and circular economy infrastructure.
It will present the CLOSER and EVEN-CLOSER projects which tackle the recovery of secondary raw materials from e-waste for reuse in the manufacture of chips and microlectronics.
CityLoops (Closing the loop for urban material flows) was a Horizon 2020 project which focused on circular economy solutions for bio-waste and construction and demolition waste (CDW). Seven European cities implemented ten demonstration actions and tested over 30 new tools and processes, which are available together with replication packages and feedback from the cities which tested them.
The COLLECTORS project (waste COLLECTiOn systems assessed and good pRacticeS identified) identified good practices in waste collection and sorting, focusing on paper and packaging, waste electrical and electronic equipment, and construction and demolition.
SUINK (SUstainable self-charging power systems developed by INKjet printing) is a Horizon Europe research and innovation project aiming to design and implement sustainable, flexible and printable self-charging power systems to supply power to a wide range of sensors for the automotive industry. See how it's doing this and incorporating circular principles!
