New EU alliance for a circular bioeconomy
A total of 14 clusters from various European countries, including Germany, have joined forces to promote a circular and sustainable bioeconomy.
With the European Green Deal, the European Union (EU) has committed to reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030. To achieve this goal, the EU member states are focussing on a sustainable bioeconomy that functions in circular systems. Corresponding measures to implement the green transformation were already set out in the European Bioeconomy Strategy in 2019. With the aim of making the EU a leader in circular bioeconomy, the European Bioeconomy Clusters Alliance (EBCA) was founded in Brussels on 10 February.
The network brings together the expertise of 14 clusters from eleven different European countries, including Germany. The aim of the new alliance is to accelerate the industrialisation and commercialisation of bio-based innovations and to improve innovation, competitiveness and resilience in Europe through a circular bioeconomy.
The Düsseldorf-based Cluster Industrial Biotechnology (CLIB) is one of the founding members of the EBCA. The members of the association, including large companies, SMEs, start-ups and research institutions, promote sustainable processes in industrial biotechnology.
Bio-based products as a key transformation tool
‘To enable the transition to a circular and regenerative bioeconomy, bio-based products must be used as key tools to achieve more with less, overcome the overuse of resources, solve pollution problems and close the carbon cycle,’ argues the alliance.
Promoting innovations for the circular bioeconomy
One focus of the network is the promotion of innovations for a circular bioeconomy. To this end, the members of the alliance want to analyse and coordinate joint activities and initiatives on the basis of national and regional bioeconomy strategies.
EU Bioeconomy Clusters Alliance
Founding members of the EBCA
Bioeconomy Cluster (Slovakia); Bioeconomy For Change - B4C (France); CluBE Western Macedonia (Greece), Greek Bioeconomy Council (Greece), Cluster industrielle Biotechnologie e.V. - CLIB (Germany); Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía -CTA (Spain); Cluster de Alimentación del Valle del Ebro - Food+i (Spain); Food & Bio Cluster (Denmark); Irish Bioeconomy Foundation - IBF (Ireland); Flanders Food (Belgium); Wagralim - Innovation Cluster for Agriculture and Food in Wallonia (Belgium); P-bio (Portugal); SPRING - Italian Cluster for Circular Bioeconomy (Italy); World Bioeconomy Association (Finland)
Contribution to the EU Bioeconomy Strategy
Its activities aim to strengthen the role of European clusters as facilitators and key players at both regional and national level, thereby contributing to the implementation of the European bioeconomy strategy.
The 14 founding members expect ‘other European clusters with an interest in the bioeconomy to join the alliance’ in the course of the year.
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