Active projects

BPF is part of the Bionanopolys project funded by the EU. In this project circularity of nano-enabled bio-based materials will be launched and promoted. There is an Open Innovation Test Bed to develop innovative bionanocomposites from main feedstocks in Europe and bio-based nanoproducts in relevant sectors such as: polymers, packaging, textile,

agriculture, cosmetics, pharma, hygiene, food and additive manufacturing.

Bionanopolys will improve technologies and processes required in fourteen different pilot lines distributed across Europe.

Key industrial players will act as final validators in almost twenty different cases studies. In total, Bionanopolys has participation from twelve countries.

Reinventing a smart, circular and competitive textile industry with advanced myco-fibres.

Within the MY-FI project BPF teams up with 13 experts from 6 EU countries under the project leadership of MOGU to re-invent a smart, circular and competitive textile industry with advanced myco-fibres.

From textile and fashion, to automotive and luxury, through MY-FI we will employ mycelium to ferment and harness value from a wide array of industrial residues, thereby developing advanced manufacturing processes, innovative sustainable materials, and functional products.

The BPF will contribute to the project with its wealth of experience in the fermentation of fungi and will be responsible for scaling up the production as well as the harvesting and purification of the mycelium.

PHEromones for Row crop Application (PHERA)

Mating disruption offers an effective solution to pest control and an alternative to current chemical-based insecticides. This approach uses insect sex pheromones to disrupt their reproductive cycles. Unlike chemical-based pesticides, it preserves biodiversity and has no environmental toxicity.

Creating an effective biotech-based method for producing pheromones will address this challenge and allow for the wider deployment of this solution. PHERA brings together the required expertise in production and formulation.

The PHERA will be used directly towards two critical steps required for large scale implementation: Scaling up the production of pheromones to production in 100 cubic meter fermentation tanks, and conducting large-scale mating disruption field experiments in row-crops to prove the efficacy of the pheromone formulations offered by the pheromone application companies.

The project is funded by the Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) with SEDQ Healthy Crops (Spain), ISCA Europe (France), Russell IPM (UK), Novagrica (Greece), BioPhero (Denmark) and Fraunhofer (Germany) as BPF’s project partners.

The Bio-based Industries Initiative is a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between the European Commission and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC). The European Commission’s proposal for Horizon 2020 and the Strategy and Action Plan for a Sustainable Bioeconomy in Europe mention the use of public- private partnerships (PPP’s) in the form of a Joint Technology Initiative (JTI) for bio-based industries.