Bio Base Europe is granted €21 million to become the first open innovation and education center for the biobased economy in Europe

Tuesday, December 23rd 2008
Bio Base Europe is granted €21 million to become the first open innovation and education center for the biobased economy in Europe

On December 12, Europe, Flanders and The Netherlands have joined forces within the framework of an Interreg IV project and allocated €21 million to Bio Base Europe. Bio Base Europe is the largest Interreg project ever granted to the Dutch-Flemish border region. Bio Base Europe will build research and training facilities for biobased activities, in order to speed up the development of a sustainable biobased economy in Europe. Bio Base Europe is... 

Industrial waste energy and process by-products as sustainable resources to serve greenhouse horticultural complex

Thursday, July 17th 2008

WarmCO2 is set to become a by-word for sustainable, cost effective and energy efficient solutions for Dutch greenhouse horticulture. In the Netherlands, greenhouse horticulture is the most intensive form of crop production and is of major economic importance to communities and to the country as a whole. However, the industry’s heavy reliance on fossil fuels for greenhouse heating presents both a cost and a CO2 emissions reduction challenge for...