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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