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High performance bio-based polymers for market applications with stringent requirements

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking

Programme Description

The Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) is a €2 billion partnership between the European Union and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) that funds projects advancing competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe.

CBE JU is operating under the rules of Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation programme, for the 2021-2031 period. The partnership is building on the success of its predecessor, the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU), while addressing the current challenges facing the industry.

 

Programme Details

Identifier Code

HORIZON-JU-CBE-2022-R-01

Call

High performance bio-based polymers for market applications with stringent requirements

Summary

The wide variety of molecular structures of bio-based polymers can offer significant opportunities to develop products tailored to specific applications.
Tailor-made bio-based polymers for these applications can benefit from their inherent physical/chemical properties, and from their potentially higher sustainability when compared with fossil-based counterparts. Some of these specialty polymers or their components may heavily depend on imports from outside the EU. Their production routes need to be designed, and their properties tested and proven useful and applicable under stringent conditions as demanded by specific market sectors. Innovative bio-based polymers in scope may be synthesised from bio-based building blocks, produced through biotechnology, other sustainable bio-based processing technologies, or through the functionalisation with biocatalysts or by other means of biopolymers extracted from bio-based feedstock.

Detailed Call Description

Proposals under this topic should:

  • Develop bio-based polymers with tailored functional properties for a pre-defined range of applications for market requirements under stringent conditions. The bio-based polymers should be circular-by-design, allowing for their reuse and recycling, including composting in case of biodegradable biopolymers.
  • Develop validation tests (e.g., test rigs and testing procedures) and test the bio-based polymers against the application requirements. These tests should include their end-of-life handling.
  • Provide an assessment of the environmental sustainability of the developed bio-based polymers.
  • Provision for the project integrating ‘safe-and-sustainable-by-design’ generic criteria and framework considerations, in line with the EU Chemicals strategy for sustainability.
  • Apply and/or adapt existing/mature or novel digital technologies provided that they are instrumental to achieving the project’s outcomes and scope. Applications of digital technologies that should be considered in the scope are among the following areas: i) chemicals, materials and process design & modelling ii) process monitoring and optimisation and iii) data analytics and data management of the production of bio-based polymers in the scope.
  • Disseminate the outputs and learning outcomes from the project in order to increase the public awareness, and awareness of relevant industry actors, of potential benefits of bio-based solutions and raise awareness on opportunities to be addressed.

Call Total Budget

€120000000

Thematic Category Notes

Examples of final applications include films, foams, membranes, conductive polymers, semi-conductive polymers, dielectric materials, etc.

Thematic Categories

  • Environment and Climate Change
  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation

Eligibility for Participation

  • Central Government
  • Large Enterprises
  • Local Authorities
  • Private Bodies
  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
  • Semi-governmental organisations
  • Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
  • State-owned Enterprises

Call Opening Date

22/06/2022

Call Closing Date

22/09/2022

EU Contact Point

Contact Details:

https://www.cbe.europa.eu/contact

Email Address: info@cbe.europa.eu

(Publish Date: 19/07/2022-for internal use only)

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