Innovation News

​ The Innovation Fund is one of the world’s largest funding programmes for demonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies. It focuses on: Innovative low-carbon technologies and processes in energy intensive industries, including products substituting carbon intensive ones Carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) Construction and operation of carbon capture and storage (CCS) Innovative renewable energy generation Energy […]

​ The international innovation competition "What Wood You Do?", organised by the Paper Province, provides a unique opportunity to researchers, organisations and companies to share their innovative ideas on how to boost the forest bioeconomy. FTP’s ten Vision Targets identified in its Vision 2040 and SIRA 2030 was used as a source of inspiration to […]

ForestValue has decided to start planning a new transnational call for proposals for research, development and innovation in the forest-based sector. This 2nd joint call would be a self-sustained call i.e. the funding to the call would come from the participating funders only without any co-funding from the European Commission.All call details are still open, […]

The 2020 BBI JU Call for proposals is now open until 3 September 2020, 17:00 CET. With this call, an indicative budget of €102 million is available to cover 16 topics in four strategic orientations: feedstock, process, products, and market uptake. FTP identified 10 call topics which would be relevant for the forest-based sector: BBI2020.SO1.D1 […]

The Bio-Based Industries Consortium (BIC) invites stakeholders and society for a public consultation on the new draft strategic agenda for research and innovation for 2030 (SIRA2030). The emerging bio-based industries sector, coordinated by the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), is cooperating with the European Commission to create a new public-private partnership under Horizon Europe. The objective […]

DG CLIMA and INEA are looking for experienced and motivated experts to evaluate projects applying for funding from the Innovation Fund, one of the world’s largest funding programmes for the first of a kind demonstration of innovative low-carbon technologies. The Innovation Fund focuses on: Innovative low-carbon technologies and processes in energy intensive industries, including products […]

In its new call for project proposals under the LIFE programme, the European Commisison (EC) has earmarked more than €450 million for projects related to nature conservation, environmental protection and climate action. This is part of the EC’s plan in reaching the EU Green Deal‘s climate neutrality objective. The LIFE Programme funds projects under its […]

The Commission has adopted an update of the 2020 Work Programme of Horizon 2020, the EU’s research and innovation programme to allocate increased funding to its priorities, including urgently needed research and innovation projects into the coronavirus. This decision is part of regular adjustment of the budget and actions of Horizon 2020. The update includes […]

The European Commission has adopted a new Circular Economy Action Plan – one of the main blocks of the European Green Deal, Europe’s new agenda for sustainable growth. The new Action Plan announces initiatives along the entire life cycle of products, targeting for example their design, promoting circular economy processes, fostering sustainable consumption, and aiming to ensure that […]

Taking place on 20 – 21 February in Brussels, the BIOEAST high-level conference "BIOEAST as a driving force in the context of the European Green Deal" aimed to deploy sustainable and circular bioeconomies in Central and Eastern Europe in the context of food, agriculture, natural resources and bioeconomy related policies. On the first day, the […]