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The Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) recently published its seventh Call for proposals open until 3 September 2020, 17:00 CET. This year’s Call for proposals addresses four strategic orientations: feedstock, process, products, and market uptake. In total, the BBI JU is making €102 million available for projects across 16 different topics.

More information is available on the BBI JU Website, and the BBI JU Virtual Info Day 2020.

Full list of Call for proposals under the Call 2020, H2020-BBI-JTI-2020

Research and Innovation Actions (RIA): Indicative budget €22 million

• BBI2020.SO2.R1 — Use enabling technologies to improve feedstock availability and sustainability for the bio-based industry (Process, €2 to 5 million)
• BBI2020.SO2.R2 — Develop integral fractionation of lignocellulose to produce components for high-value applications (Process, €2 to 5 million)
• BBI2020.SO2.R3 — Develop bio-based solutions to recycle composites (Process, €2 to 5 million)
• BBI2020.SO2.R4 — Extract bioactive compounds from new, under-exploited and/or recalcitrant residual bio-based streams for high-value applications (Process, €2 to 5 million)
• BBI2020.SO3.R5 — Improve the sustainability of coatings (Process, €2 to 5 million)

Innovative Actions – Demonstration (DEMO): Indicative budget €28 million

• BBI2020.SO1.D1 — Resolve supply-chain hurdles for turning
  residual waste streams into functional molecules for food and/or non-food
  market applications (Feedstock, €7
  million)
• BBI2020.SO1.D2 — Use biogenic gaseous carbon to increase
  feedstock availability for the industry (Feedstock,
  €7 million)
• BBI2020.SO2.D3 — Upscale the production of bio-based
  platform molecules for larger market applications (Process, €7 million)
• BBI2020.SO3.D4 — Demonstrate superior bio-based packaging
  solutions with minimal environmental damage (Products,
  €7 million)

Innovation Actions – Flagship (FLAG): Indicative budget €47 million

• BBI2020.SO1.F1 — Valorise the organic fraction of municipal
  solid waste through an integrated biorefinery at commercial level (Feedstock, €15 million)
• BBI2020.SO1.F2 — Turn lignin into materials and chemicals
  for high-end applications (Feedstock, €16
  million)
• BBI2020.SO1.F3 — Produce food ingredients with high
  nutritional value from aquatic sources (Feedstock,
  €16 million)

Coordination and Support Actions (CSA): Indicative budget €5 million

• BBI2020.SO4.S1 — Help start-ups and spin-offs to gain access to finance (Market Uptake, €1.5 million)
• BBI2020.SO4.S2 — Provide insight on emerging technologies for bio-based value chains (Market Uptake, €1 million)
• BBI2020.SO4.S3 — Create and interlink bio-based education centres to meet industry’s needs of skills and competences (Market Uptake, €1.5 million)
• BBI2020.SO4.S4 — Expand circular economy to include the underexploited circular bioeconomy (Market Uptake, €1 million)