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An interview with Nicolò Giacomuzzi-Moore, Executive Director at CBE JU. “We have no time to waste if we want to maintain the leadership in the circular bioeconomy”

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Nicolò Giacomuzzi-Moore, Executive Director at CBE JU, talks to Il Bioeconomista. In this exclusive interview, released just after the presentation of the new EU Bioeconomy Strategy, he talks about the Communication launched by the Berlaymont and the next steps that are needed to make the bioeconomy happen: “We have no time to waste if we want to mantain the leadership in the circular bioeconomy, because our competitors are moving fast and often do not play by the rules”.

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

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First BioINSouth Forum: Catania will be the Mediterranean Capital of bioeconomy on 4-6 June

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Catania will be the Mediterranean capital of bioeconomy from June 4 to June 6. In the Italian city located at the heart of Southern Europe will take place the first edition of the BioINSouth Forum, hosted by the Aula Magna of the University of Catania.

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The ReBioCycle: 20 EU partners join forces to develop and implement a new blueprint for circular bioplastics upcycling solutions

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Thomas Philipon – CEO TotalEnergies Corbion – showcasing the Luminy PLA based noodle cups. Source: TotalEnergies Corbion

The ReBioCycle project kickoff took place at the University College Dublin on 2-3 October 2024. European Bioplastics and its members, including TotalEnergies Corbion, AIMPLAS, Novamont, Corbion, Sulapac, and Kaneka are amongst the 20 partners that have joined forces for developing and implementing “A new European blueprint for circular bioplastics upcycling solutions”, under the lead of the University College Dublin and BiOrbic Bioeconomy SFI Research Centre.

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The EU bioeconomy takes a step forward: COPILOT open two Calls for Pilot and Demo Infrastructures and for Innovators

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The European bioeconomy takes a step forward. COPILOT – a Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking CSA project coordinated by the Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant – has opened two Open Calls with the aim to select the members for two co-creation groups for the platform and its activities: Open Call 1 will select 10 Pilot and Demo Infrastructures, Open Call 2 will select 15 Bioeconomy Innovators.

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An exclusive interview with Nicolò Giacomuzzi-Moore, Acting Executive Director CBE JU

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“The bioeconomy can be a catalyst for sustainable systematic change and transition, tackling key economic, societal and environmental challenges”. To say it – in this exclusive interview with Il Bioeconomista – is Nicolò Giacomuzzi-Moore, Executive Director ad interim of CBE JU, Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking.

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

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An interview with Dirk Carrez, CEO of BIC. “We need to grow the bio-based sector. Why is Europe so slow?”

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“We need to grow the bio-based sector. Especially, if you look at the challenges the world is facing. That means, not just research and innovation, but actually scaling-up the production of our new bio-based products and processes in Europe. For that, we need more investment in new biorefineries in Europe.” Dirk Carrez, CEO of BIC (Biobased Industries Consortium), a non-profit organisation set up in Brussels in 2013 to represent the private sector in a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) with the European Commission, talks to Il Bioeconomista about present and future of the European bioeconomy.

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

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What next for the European bio-based sector? CBE JU community will gather on 6-7 December in Brussels

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Virginia Puzzolo, Head of Program at CBE JU at IFIB 2023 in Florence

The CBE JU Stakeholder Forum 2023 will take place on 6-7 December in the Egg venue in Brussels, to discuss on the future of the European bio-based sector, visit the exhibition of innovative bio-based solutions and network with 600 CBE JU stakeholders. ’What next for the European bio-based sector?’ will be the main theme of the forum.

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Achieving sustainable competitiveness: CBE JU’s main contribution to the EU Green Deal

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In 13 September’s State of the Union address, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen highlighted competitiveness, industrial modernisation, and nature preservation, among other European Commission achievements over the past year. CBE JU – the public-private partnership focus on bioeconomy claims – has contributed to these accomplishments by stimulating Europe’s industrial leadership, boosting innovative technological development and decarbonising the economy, among others. Last Thursday, CBE JU published a new set of infographics showing the joint undertaking’s support for the circular bio-based economy in each European country.

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The partners of the EU B-Ferst project visiting the Novamont Research Center in Piana di Monte Verna

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On 6 and 7 July, the partners of B-FERST, a project financed by Bio Based Industries Join Undertaking (now CBE JU) under the Horizon 2020 program, met in Caserta to discuss developments in project activities and define the following actions to be undertaken. 

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10 years after the first EU bioeconomy strategy. An interview with Chris Patermann, the father of the European bioeconomy

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Chris Patermann at the first edition of the Bioeconomy Investment Summit, Brussels, 9-10 November 2015

Chris Patermann is considered as the father of the European bioeconomy and is still a central figure in the world bioeconomy community. In this exclusive interview with Il Bioeconomista, he talks – 10 years after the first Bioeconomy strategy launched by the European Commission – about the new challenges we are facing to make the new economy based on biological resources happen.

Interview by Mario Bonaccorso

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