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After two years of hard work, the first graduates received their well-deserved diplomas for the master’s programme Biobased Materials.

On March 20, 2025, experts from the agricultural and chemical worlds gathered at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in Geleen for the Agro Meets Smart Materials meeting. The central question: how can agricultural crops and residual flows contribute to the development of sustainable, circular materials?

The Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM) in the Netherlands is a cross-border research institute focused on developing advanced biobased materials. AMIBM is located on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus.

During the Biobased Materials introduction days you will meet your fellow students and staff members, you will receive information about your study programme and the facilities.

During the Biobased Materials introduction days you will meet your fellow students and staff, you will receive information about your study, the campus, the building in which you will be studying (and PBL: the teaching system at Maastricht University.)

Maastricht University (UM) researchers working at Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM) have received a substantial financial injection of €4 million to support new developments in biobased materials. This amount has been made available by the Province of Limburg.

We are pleased to announce that leading energy and chemicals company Saudi Aramco, is supporting a research programme on the Sustainability of Biobased Materials in a circular economy, at the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM).

On 9 December, the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM) is opening 1500 m² of new laboratories at the Brightlands Chemelot Campus.

Since the Biobased Materials Research group started on the Brightlands Chemelot Campus in 2013 the expansion of the group has been astounding.

Six graduates received their well-deserved diplomas for the master’s programme in Biobased Materials. During the graduation ceremony, the Menno Knetsch Master Thesis Award has been handed out for the first time to the student of the Master Biobased Materials that has written the best master thesis.