At the “Bio-based solutions for a sustainable economy” symposium, participants from academia, industry, civil society and politics discussed a broad spectrum of issues, including:
- Challenges of sustainable production of primary raw materials
- Requirements with regard to future foods
- New bio-based materials for construction, clothing and packaging
- Collaboration between biology and chemistry for large-scale biotechnology applications
Poster sessions covering various bioeconomy research topics were also held, in which Philipp Sowa from the Chair of Bioorganic Chemistry at HHU was honoured with one of three prizes for his poster “Valuable compounds from lupin plant resource side stream”.
Detailed report on the 7th International BioSC Symposium
The Bioeconomy Science Center (BioSC)
Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, the University of Bonn and Forschungszentrum Jülich (Jülich Research Center – FZJ) already have outstanding research activities in numerous bioeconomy areas and form an excellent research landscape in a strongly bioeconomy-oriented industrial environment in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW). Based on a joint strategy and the involvement of existing scientific networks and collaborations, these institutions have developed a concept in which all relevant science branches are represented in an internationally recognised and currently unique competence centre – the Bioeconomy Science Center – in NRW to provide biomass and bio-based products and processes.