La Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) è un partenariato pubblico-privato tra l’Unione Europea, rappresentata dalla Commissione, ed il Bio-based Industries Consortium.
Lo scorso giugno, il PPP BBI JU ha pubblicato l’elenco dei topics e degli stanziamenti di bilancio della seconda call del 2015, nell’ambito del programma Horizon 2020. Per questa call, 106 milioni di euro sono stati stanziati per trasformare le risorse rinnovabili in utili bio-based products.
La call, aperta il 25 agosto con deadline al 03/12/2015, vedrà il budget suddiviso come segue: 28 milioni saranno allocati per Azioni di Ricerca ed Innovazione e copriranno i topics:
- Converting the streams of lignin (the complex organic polymers that make wood cells rigid) in biorefineries so they can be eventually used in sectors like chemical, transport, aerospace, textile, energy, and construction industries;
- Pre-treating lignocellulose (plant dry matter) while simultaneously removing contaminants and separating lignin and cellulosic fractions. Solving this challenge will remove a major hurdle to processing biomass into feedstock;
- Developing bio-based molecules for coating and surface treatment, a growing market as businesses aim to increase the shelf life of products;
- Separating and extracting technologies to pull added value compounds such as bark and branches from wood and forest-based residues;
- Promoting practices to improve effective forest management, so there is more access to wood resources with less of an environmental impact;
- Developing sustainable cellulose based materials to ensure their strong market prospects as textiles, films and thermoplastics meet tight environmental demands;
- Tailoring tree species to produce wood designed for industrial processes and biorefining purposes;
- Increasing productivity of industrial multi-purpose agricultural crops;
- Making the most of the aquatic biomass: water plants like algae and microalgae have high value applications such as food ingredients, polymers, feed proteins, cosmetics, pharma, etc but the costs of the extraction and conversion need to come down.
Ulteriori 12 milioni sono stati assegnati per tecnologie innovative ed efficienti di bioraffineria; 64 milioni saranno stanziati per Demonstration Actions che affrontino le seguenti sfide:
- Show how lignocellulosic feedstocks can be turned into chemical building blocks and high added value products, with products and processes benchmarked against fossil based alternatives;
- Develop innovative cellulose-based composite packaging solutions, mainly to improve their mechanical properties and address contaminant control (dust, bacteria and other impurities);
- Produce bio-based elastomers from Europe-grown feedstock;
- Develop high purity bio-based intermediates and end products from vegetable oils and fats;
- Make the most of agricultural residues and side streams from the agro-food industry;
- Extract organic acids from municipal solid waste;
- Overcome low product yields from fermentation processes in the production of industrial products like alcohols, acids, proteins, amino acids, and specialty carbohydrates.
Altri 2 milioni di euro copriranno Coordination and Support Actions.
Fonte: Commissione europea
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