BBI JU Call 2018 is open – New opportunities for developing sustainable and competitive biondustries in Europe
Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.
With an indicative budget of 115 M€, the fifth
call of the Bio-based Industries Joint
Undertaking (H2020-BBI-JTI-2018) opened last week (11 April 2018) to
address the main technological and innovation challenges that need to be
overcome in order to develop sustainable and competitive biondustries in
Europe. The call closure is scheduled for 6 September 2018. After two months of
proposal evaluations, the results are expected to be sent to applicants in
December.
All the relevant information can be found in
the BBI JU
website and the Participant
Portal (the official EU funding communication channel). Also, it is
important to mention that there is a Partnering Platform where online
profiles can be created, allowing a better interaction with other potential BBI
JU Call applicants.
Figure 1. BBI JU Call for Proposals 2018 (extracted
from BBI JU website)
The last Strategic Innovation and
Research Agenda (SIRA) of the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC)
is the basis for road mapping towards the BBI JU calls for proposals,
therefore, it is a compulsory reading for all the actors that are involved in
the preparation of partnerships and proposals (see “SIRA
2017 – Guidelines for the European biorefining sector of the future”). Topics
have been known for months as they were published via the Annual Work
Plan 2018 in December 2017.
The BioRefineries Blog (BioRefInno) is
available to join to consortia as communications and/or consultancy partner.