18.11.2024 News
Pharmaceutical industry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
The start-up Phaeosynt from Hanover wants to develop a pregnancy test with antibodies from diatoms. The team is being funded by the German Federal Environmental Foundation.
20.11.2024 News
Food unspecific Agriculture sciences
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research is participating as a sponsor in FutureFoodS, a European partnership on safe and sustainable food systems. A new call for proposals has now been launched.
Sun, 04/13/2025 - 12:00 In-depth report
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Through the Horizon Europe framework program, the European Union supports researchers from academia and industry in realizing their ideas. How can bioeconomy researchers benefit from this attractive EU funding? This dossier offers a compact overview of the wide range of funding formats and explains where interested parties can get help with their application.
Publication
Global research alliances for a more sustainable economyPublished by: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), September 2024Edited by: bioökonomie.de/BIOCOM Interrelations GmbHClimate change, scarce resources and the imperative of food security – the bioeconomy, as a sustainable form of biobased economic activity, offers a promising approach to overcoming major global challenges. International cooperation is of great importance for this. With ‘Bioeconomy International’, the BMBF has created the basis for successful research collaborations with non-EU researchers. The brochure provides an overview of the range of funded projects – from plant breeding, plant protection, food technology, biomaterials and biotechnology.
02.12.2024 News
Chemistry unspecific Biotechnology/Systems biology
Under the leadership of the Technical University of Munich, an international research team has developed a method with which proteins can be designed even better on a computer and produced with the desired properties.
Mon, 06/09/2025 - 12:00 In-depth report
Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences
Agroforestry systems combine the cultivation of arable crops with the use of woody plants. This dossier presents various concepts and current agroforestry projects and sheds light on how they can be used to make agriculture more sustainable.
28.11.2024 News
Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences
Two innovative projects at the University of Koblenz show how technological innovations and fast 5G data transmission can make viticulture more climate-resilient and sustainable.
29.11.2024 News
Chemistry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
The Bavarian company Electrochaea has concluded a licence agreement and technology transfer for its patented power-to-gas technology with Japan's Hitachi Ltd.
09.01.2025 Success story
Chemistry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
The Munich-based power-to-gas company Electrochaea has developed an innovative process in which microorganisms convert surplus electricity into climate-neutral methane.
03.12.2024 News
Agriculture and forestry Plants Agriculture sciences
The Wetscapes 2.0 project is receiving 10 million euros from the German Research Foundation to research complex processes in the rewetting of fenland landscapes.
03.12.2024 Product
Chemistry Plants
An Italian start-up is utilizing waste from tomato processing to develop an eco-friendly alternative to conventional packaging coatings. A bio-resin is extracted from tomato peels that is free of BPA and biodegradable.
04.12.2024 News
Chemistry unspecific Biotechnology/Systems biology
As part of the new funding guideline ‘Future technologies for the industrial bioeconomy’, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding innovative projects that address bio-based products and processes for a climate-neutral and recyclable industry.
11.12.2024 News
Chemistry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
A research team led by Marburg microbiologist Tobias Erb has found a new way to effectively fix CO2 and transfer it into the cell metabolism. A completely new enzyme was designed for this purpose and optimised through evolution in the laboratory.
13.12.2024 News
Chemistry Waste Biotechnology/Systems biology
The Hamburg-based biotech start-up Infinite Roots wants to utilise whey as a nutrient for mycelium fermentation and thus pave the way for new alternative dairy products.
19.12.2024 News
Food Plants Biotechnology/Systems biology
The Munich-based food tech start-up Planet A Foods has received 30 million US dollars in a Series B financing round to further increase its production of cocoa-free chocolate.
17.12.2024 News
Chemistry Microorganisms Chemistry
In the RoKKa project, partners from research and industry have demonstrated how new processes can be used to extract high-quality raw materials for the bioeconomy using wastewater from sewage treatment plants, while at the same time reducing CO2 emissions.
07.01.2025 Interview
Chemistry Microorganisms Biotechnology/Systems biology
For more than two decades, Carola Griehl has been researching technologies to extract proteins, active ingredients, or petroleum-like hydrocarbons from algae on a large scale and make them usable for industry.
20.12.2024 News
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Jena researchers reveal how well tiny green algae can adapt to their environment – without interfering with their genetic material. The observations from the study could benefit biotechnology.
23.12.2024 News
Food Plants Biotechnology/Systems biology
Fraunhofer researchers from Freising are developing a food foam based on legumes to replace traditional egg whites from hens' eggs in baked goods.
07.01.2025 News
Chemistry Waste Biotechnology/Systems biology
With the help of hydrothermal humification, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy in Potsdam have succeeded in artificially producing humic substances, which are important for soil health, and making them usable as fertiliser for agriculture.
