The European Bioeconomy University – driven by demand, accomplished by intellectual leadership
The transition to the Bioeconomy is one of the major economic, social and environmental challenges facing the European Union in the coming years. The European Bioeconomy University will tackle this enormous challenge by educating a new generation of truly European experts, fostering rigorous, relevant and responsible research, and transferring knowledge into society and the economy.
The European Bioeconomy University is an alliance of the six leading European universities in this field. It will act not only as a think tank for knowledge generation, but also as a creative hub for knowledge transfer to transform diversity into creativity, support the European approach of democratic, transparent and participative processes and foster actual change in an innovative and sustainable way.
The EBU Student Journey has started
34 students from our 6 EBU Alliance Members divided into 6 interdisciplinary groups will have to identify a biomass or industrial by-product and imagine how they could be valorised further (e.g. biofuels, biobased chemicals or materials) in the context of the Bioeconomy. This challenge will help the students to think within a Circular economy understand […]
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First EBU All-Circles Meeting
Yesterday, the EBU welcomed 2 new affiliated University partners (SGGW, SLU) and 3 new industry partners (BIOeast, EFI, European Bioplastics) into its network. The meeting revolved around exploring existing projects, how new partners can participate, and it provided an outlook at new focus areas to base joint programs on. Despite it being the first meeting […]
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Solidarity with Ukraine
We as European Bioeconomy University Alliance (EBU) express our full support and solidarity to the people of Ukraine under these horrific circumstances. There are no justifications for war. It leads to nothing but misery and destruction. We strongly condemn this military invasion. President Putin’s attack on a free, democratic and independent country violates international law […]
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Launch of the EBU PostDocNet
From the 1st of March until the 31st of July interested PostDocs can get into contact with the EBU and its partner universities for support and information about the Marie Skłodowksa-Curie Actions – Post-doctoral Fellowship call (MSCA). Hereby, we want to ensure that PostDocs and soon to be PostDocs have the best possible chances for […]
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