The Circular Bio-based Europe (CBE JU) has published its Annual Work Programme for 2025 on 18 December 2024. The document is composed of 13 topics with a budget of 165 m€.
FTP has selected 9 call topics that are of interest to the forest-based sector (125 m€), mainly to the Pulp & Paper Industries, with a deadline on 17 September 2025:
Forest & Forestry + Pulp and Paper:
Forest & Forestry + Woodworking + Pulp and Paper:
Pulp & Paper:
- HORIZON-JU-CBE-2025-IAFlag-01 Urban-industrial symbiosis for bio-waste valorisation
- HORIZON-JU-CBE-2025-IAFlag-02 Bio-based drop-ins/smart drop-in platform chemicals, via cost-effective, sustainable and resource-efficient conversion of biomass
- HORIZON-JU-CBE-2025-IAFlag-03 Circular-by-design fibre-based packaging with improved properties
- HORIZON-JU-CBE-2025-IAFlag-04 Retrofitting of industrial plants towards higher-value bio-based products
- HORIZON-JU-CBE-2025-IA-02 SSbD bio-based solutions to replace hazardous conventional chemicals for textiles production.
- HORIZON-JU-CBE-2025-IA-04 Cost-effective and robust continuous biotech bio-based processes
- HORIZON-JU-CBE-2025-IA-05 SSbD bio-based polymers/copolymers unlocking new market applications
The selection of FTP is available on the FTP Database here.
For more information about the calls, the rules and the process of evaluation, attend the CBE JU Info Day in Brussels on 3 April 2025.
