Realise-Bio
In the Realise-Bio project, experienced partners will provide decisive impulses for the realisation of a circular bioeconomy and circular economy in the Interreg programme area in order to make the Germany-Netherlands border region greener and more liveable and to address global regional challenges such as climate change. The concept of the bioeconomy is based, among other things, on the use of biogenic raw materials, which accumulate in large quantities in the border region, especially in the form of residual and side streams, but have so far been used too little in a circular sense.
The most important instrument for realisation are at least eight model projects that will be awarded to German-Dutch consortia. Realise-Bio identifies and activates new and known actors in a targeted and low threshold manner. This is done through strong communication activities and events that are distributed throughout the Interreg region for better coverage. Realise-Bio enables its model projects through an intensive technical support to overcome the “valley of death” for their innovations to bring circular products to the market.
For the technical coaching of the model projects, all model partners are involved in order to identify possible hurdles and opportunities and to provide a comprehensive view of the sustainability of the innovation. To this end, the competencies of the project partners complement each other, covering areas such as Life Cycle Assessment (LCA), logistics, or analysis of brand entry barriers. For example, LCA will be addressed by the Sustainability Group of AMIBM as its mission is to provide suitable methods, metrics, tools, and accurate sustainability assessments of materials to guide the transition from a fossil-based economy to a biobased economy and from a linear to a circular economy.
