Bio-based Industries

Consortium

Dirk CarrezExecutive Director

The Bio-based

Industries Consortium

The Bio-based Industries

Consortium (BIC)

• Mission

• Build new bio-based value chains (develop new technologies, products and applications; optimize feedstock use)

• Create a favorable business and policy climate to accelerate market uptake

• Activities

• Represent the private sector in the BBI JU

• Set up and update the BBI’s Strategic Innovation and Research Agenda (SIRA)

• Write the Annual Work Plans

• Mobilize stakeholders: industry, research organizations, universities, regions and relevant stakeholders across Europe

• Assist members gaining better access to European financial instruments

• > 190 industry members

• 38 Large industries

• 152 SMEs (of which 120 are represented by 16 SME Clusters)

• Several industrial sectors covered

• Agriculture & Agri-food

• Forestry and Pulp & Paper

• Technology providers

• Chemicals and materials

• Energy

• Aquatic

• Waste

• Brand owners

• 165 Associate members

• Universities, RTOs, European associations & organisations, Technology Platforms (ETPs), public institutions, regional organisations, private banks, …

Additional BIC membership benefits

• Connecting with potential project partners: online Partnering Platform allowing to exchange information and consortia building with BIC members

• Participating in timely networking and brokerage events (before the BBI Info day)

• Increase chances of participating in winning EU grant proposals having early insight into the BBI Calls for proposals (before official publication)

• Access to European financial instruments: information about loans, grants and funding

• Staying up to date with BIC (members) and BBI (programme) - monthly Newsletter

• Receiving discounts for major events (e.g. European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology)

BIC membership benefits

BIC activities

1. BIC Programming WG prepares SIRA

2. BIC Programming WG prepares annual call texts

3. BBI: first discussion with Scientific Committee and State Representative Group

4. BBI publishes the (open) calls

5. BBI organisesevaluation by independent experts (based on excellence)

6. BBI negotiates and signs contract with winning consortia (consortium agreement and grant agreement)

Bio-based Industries Consortium

Programming WG,composed by BIC industry members from different

sectors

Scientific Committee (SC)States Representative Group (SRG)

Call procedure

Steps towards an annual work plan

Priority Paper

‘Broad challenges’

Specificchallenges

Topics for the AWP

RIA-IA-CSA

Budget

'Reality check’

BIC members’ commitment

(financial + proposal)

Pre-final

Approvalprocess with BIC GA

Final

Written procedure with BBI GB

Involved in the various steps:BIC members (full & associate) / EC / SC & SRG BBI / BBI JU Office

Feb April May June July Sept Oct Nov Dec

Update of the Strategic Research

& Innovation Agenda (SIRA)

Version 1 (2013) Version 2 (2017)

Access to finance

• Improve access to finance (EIB, ESIF, …), attract investments to EU and

leverage further (industry) investments

Collaborations with regions

• Increase collaboration with regions: ERRIN, Vanguard Initiative, Polish

Regions, 6 MDR

• Invited 13 regions to BIC’s GA (pitches)

• Document: presenting 30 regions• Short description of the Region• Importance for the bio-based industries• Available feedstocks• Financial and other incentives• Key contact

• Map biomass feedstock potential, actors throughout value chain, markets,

potential members

• Focus in 2017 on Portugal, Romania and Poland

• Focus in 2018 on Baltic States

• Special CSA in next AWP for other MS

Increase participation of countries where the

bio-based activities are “relatively low”

Turnover & employment in

EU bioeconomy

Biorefineries Nr.

Biowaste 13

Lignocellulose other thanwood

5

Oil-/fat-based - biodiesel 64

Oil-/fat-based - oleochemistry 54

Sugar-/starch-based incl. Bioethanol and otherchemicals

63

Wood-based excl. Pulp forpaper only

25

Total 224

Offer

Poster: Mapping of European Biorefineries

for Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC)

Dirk Carrez

submitted by nova-Institute GmbH

Achim Raschka (nova-Institut)

Michael Carus (nova-Institut)

Chemiepark Knapsack

Industriestraße 300

50354 Huerth

Tel. +49 2233 48 14 51

Fax +49 2233 48 14 50

Email: achim.raschka@nova-

institut.de

Internet

:

www.nova-institut.eu

Huerth, 15. Juni 2017

Mapping of the biorefineries in EU

• BIC Website, including BIC publications

and position papers as well as detailed

info on BIC industry members and links to

BBI JU projects

• The BIC Picture: weekly newsletter for

BIC members, including News items

about BBI JU projects

• Twitter: raising awareness about BBI JU,

BIC and bioeconomy

• Make sure to tag @biconsortium to

amplify your project updates and

bioeconomy relevant tweets (use

#bioeconomy and/or #biobased)

• Thanks for retweeting BIC info!

BIC Communications

Questions/concerns

by project coordinators

How to secure continuity in project development:

R&D > Demo > Flagship

• For the 2019 and 2020 AWPs, BIC is looking at subtracting topics from the gap analysis towards the SIRA objectives for 2020; these include:• Unaddressed themes so far• Addressed themes, but with no granted project(s)• ‘Popular themes’: attracting high numbers of proposals every time

• BIC will also look at running BBI projects that will come to an end in 2018-2019 and are potential for continuation in AWPs 2019-2020, in particular for ‘upscaling’ : RIA projects to continue as demo/flagship, demo to continue as flagships

• BIC will look which ones can help ‘close the gap’ (see above); these will be the selected ones for further consideration. BIC will contact the coordinators of those potential projects to probe the interest of the consortia to continue; their expressed interest (if any) will be taken into account to decide if we keep a topic or not.

• Finally, we’ll look at topics that go ‘beyond 2020’ and could help set the foundations for BIC/BBI 2.0

Opportunities for implementation of

project outcomes at large industrial scale

1. See previous question/slide

2. Access to finance

What about project sustainability

after the end of project funding

• First, this depends on the consortium partners.

• Either the consortium itself sets out to continue the project, including if

this means upscaling if appropriate (RIA and demo), or securing its

market position (flagship)

• Or one or more of the consortium partners takes the project and its

results further (the partners must have clear agreement on IPR, etc.)

• This continuation does not necessarily have to be as part of BBI; the

company that takes the project further, can do so e.g. without any

external (public) financial assistance; or the company takes the project to

another appropriate programme, or to a specific financial instrument

The specific role of brand owners

• Dedicated category of industry members within BIC, introduced recently.

Brand owners can join BIC at a reduced membership fee.

• Participation of brand owners to BBI projects is seen as an advantage:

they can participate to project consortia and as such include the

development of commercial applications in the research, demo or flagship

projects. This will shorten time to market for new innovative bio-based

products.

• Brand owners can also help stir up market demand and acceptance of

bio-based products and applications

• BIC advises adding the development of new applications within the

projects as this helps attracting partners which can create market pull by

themselves.

BIC’s role in projects?

• RIA/demo/flagship: BIC can support external communication

• Internal: via newsletter

• External: via tweeter, via some journals

• All projects are encouraged to inform BIC (suzy.renckens@biconsortium.eu) about new

developments such as press release, project updates, bioeconomy events, etc.

• CSAs:

• BIC has set up a “industry expert group” for each CSA: they can be consulted by the project

consortium, they can give advice if needed, …

• BIC has appointed one dedicated BIC staff member pet CSA project: liaison between project

and BIC members

• In 2018, each CSA project will be given opportunity to present the project orally during the GA,

and a dedicated BIC CSA booklet will be made.

• Each CSA will be invited to write a specific article (objectives, results, support needed, …) for

BICs internal newsletter. Focus: how do CSAs help industry? How can BIC companies help

the project?

3 years BBI JU:

Impact

INDIRECT IMPACT:

• Mobilisation of private investment in Europe keeping knowledge and innovation, and investments in innovativeproduction processes in Europe. Attract companies from outside EU to invest in innovation in Europe!

• New value chains: e.g. food industry collaborating with the chemical industry, the forestry and pulp & papersector collaborating with chemical and textile industry, etc.

• New industrial sectors are joining e.g. by creating value from waste and side streams (food processing sector,aquatic/marine sectors, bio-waste and CO2). As a result we also observe a wider geographical spread throughoutEurope.

• Responding to environmental and societal challenges: initiatives such as the Circular Economy Package andCOP21 are bringing more and new players to the game.

• Increased market focus: participation of brand owners is key as they help to develop new applications and createnew markets. Their involvement also shortens time to market for innovative bio-based products.

• Involving the regions: BIC and BBI JU have strengthened their collaboration with the EU regions to exchangeinformation and explore synergies and opportunities for joint financing, and deployment of new value chains.

• Contribution to the priorities of the Juncker Plan for Europe by stimulating investments and creating innovativegrowth & jobs, which will again stimulate innovation. BIC industry members have >4,5 billion EUR investments inthe pipeline.

Impact of 3 years BBI

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