
Biobased economy
Within the project ‘Borderless Biobased Education’, fourteen Flemish and Dutch partners are working on the development of demand-oriented education and in-service training programs at secondary, higher and university level. The biobased economy offers opportunities for economic growth and new employment. ‘Biobased’ is even one of the three top clusters and driver for innovation and specialization in the Dutch-Flemish Delta Region. In the biobased economy, green raw materials are taking over from fossil fuels.
These “new” raw materials are used as materials, chemicals and energy. This creates new developments and business opportunities in sectors such as agro-food, construction, chemicals, textiles and maritime. In addition, the biobased economy ensures sustainable development through the use of reusable materials. The two main challenges to actually get the promising biobased economy off the ground in the border region are:
- Awareness of companies with regard to the opportunities that exist in this field and, linked to this, the creation of demand for research and facilities.
- Training suitable, technical and techno-economic personnel, in both qualitative and quantitative terms.
Within the ‘Borderless Biobased Education’ project, fourteen Flemish and Dutch partners are therefore working on the development of demand-oriented education and in-service training programs at secondary, higher and university level. They also invest in better training and research facilities for education and business. The project will run from November 1, 2016 to October 31, 2019 and was realized with financial support from Interreg Flanders-Netherlands and various co-financiers.
The results of the GBO project can be found at www.biobasedonderwijs.eu/result. Here you can download the research into the market demand for biobased education (under the heading market demand) and an inventory of the cross-border research and training infrastructure (under the heading infrastructure). Information about the digital platform and the films made by GBO can also be found here (under the heading knowledge sharing).
For biobased teaching materials, please visit www.biobasednetwork.eu. Here are all teaching modules and MOOCs developed by GBO partners.
Targets
More specifically, the objectives of Borderless Biobased Education are:
- Mapping market demand
- Developing education and training programs in secondary, higher and university education
- Creating and making better use of cross-border training and research facilities
- Increasing the exchange of educational modules, teachers and students by creating cross-border knowledge networks and platforms
- The cross-border bringing together of companies, sectors and educational institutions in the biobased economy
- Increasing the inflow and outflow of professionals in technical and techno-economic training for the biobased sector
Biobased supply in pictures
A European platform where everything related to biobased education comes together. A place where a complete range of biobased educational materials, internships and facilities can be found. According to Ralph Simons, director of the Center of Expertise Biobased Economy (CoE BBE), this should certainly be possible in the future. In the Borderless Biobased Education project, the first steps are being taken to achieve this in a collaboration between the Netherlands and Flanders at present. As a partner in this project, the CoE BBE is responsible for the aforementioned biobased platform. Collecting and bringing knowledge is completely central to this. This project focuses on the offer in the Netherlands and the Flanders region.

Solar TukTuk eyecatcher for energy transition research and education

Dutch and Finnish students in the Biobased Battle 2023!

Politics is important, including energy transition!

GESCHIKT: energy transition on business parks

Mycelium on Board

From orange waste to a green future

Blueprint of fungal genomes

BioGov.net

Water-resistant mycelium composites

Sustainable Particle Board

Circular Emergency Shelters

FACET

Totally Nuts: Circular Biobased Thermosets from Cashew Nutshells

Biodegradation Coatings Stahl

Green Hub: Information hub value chains green residual flows

Acceleration of nature-inclusive area development

Reflow

Biobased Insulation – Lifespan Determination (BILD)

Setting up and performing biodiesel trials in a coaster ship

Mythic

PyroCHEM: Waste2Chem Innovation Cluster

Membrane Technologies

Flestic

Direct extrusion of PHA-rich biomass

Production of bioplastics from residual streams (WoW! Capitalisation)

Powering Agrifood

Smart Circular Bridge

Fungal Colourants

Learning Network Biobuilders

Orange in the Sea

Amino Acids!

Building on Mycelium

Follow-up S4G

Colour Application Centre

Making disposables disposable

Making shipping more sustainable (Russia – Benelux)

Zircular Seaweed food

Extraction of pectins from onion skins

Growing Leather

Learning Community Renewable fuels

PHA accumulation capacity of Sewage Treatment Plant

NACO – Zero Waste Collective Oosterhout

Bio Iso (RAAK MKB)

Design with RRM (rapidly renewable materials)

Resin biodegradation

Biobased gadgets

Biobased foam

Biobased flocculants for water purification

Viberscrete – biobased concrete

Innovation Traineeships

Building light

BioADD

CurCol

Learning community

Professors’ platform Biobased Economy

Porter’s lodge Delfland

Smart Circular Bridge

Biobased, circular Christmas bauble with packaging

Mycelium boards

Coloring Mycelium

Back to the Materials of the Future

National Biobased Database

Structural Health in Biobased Constructions

Beauti-Fully Biobased Fibers

Coffee Silverskin Biomass Utilization

Sustainable solid biofuels

Biobonding: Improved biocomposites

ZCORE (from Seaweed to COating Resin applications)

Cashing cashew

Material research for 3D printing

Seaweed Sterols

Onion deserves more

Circling in construction

Biomass flows in the province of South Holland

Circular Bio-based Construction Industry (CBCI)

Biodegradability of biopolymer and biopolymer composites

BBM+

Opportunities for composting in Brazil

Stadsjutters Breda

Innovation tables

Tomatozyme

MAA’s from algae

Sensor wise Biobased

Pyrolysis Experimental Garden South

Grassification

REFAWOOD

Valuable ONION

Biobased Network

Living Lab Biobased Brazil

Biopolymer Application Center

Borderless Biobased Education

Living Colors

Mycelium

BioCOLOUR

BioCannDo

Blue Chain

WOW!

Green Growth

Biobased Challenge

Biobased bridge

Pure Nature: 100% Biobased

National Biobased Knowledge Network
