BIG-C Stakeholders Meeting: take the chance to meet interesting players working on bio-based innovation from the Flanders region of Belgium, The Netherlands and the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The matchmaking event will inform you about ongoing and upcoming projects under the BIG-C umbrella. Together… Read more >

The Masterclass of the first edition of the Global Biobased Business competition (G-BiB) for the Dutch teams took place on Wednesday 19 April at the Erasmus Centre for Entrepreneurship (ECE) in Rotterdam. This interesting and intensive day was full of presentations and workshops with the… Read more >

From July 23-26, 2017 the BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing will take place in Montreal, Canada. This conference is the world's largest industrial biotechnology event for business leaders, investors and policy makers in biofuels, biobased products, and renewable chemicals. The BIO World Congress… Read more >

The Kick-off of the first edition of the Global Biobased Business competition (G-BiB) for the Brazilian teams took place last Friday. This interesting and instructive, but most of all inspiring event marks the beginning of the G-BiB for the 19 teams from Brazil.  The final… Read more >

The deadlines for the FAPESP/BE-Basic Call have been extended. Please find the new deadlines below: Call announcement • December, 2016 Deadline for eligibility consultation at FAPESP • April 7th, 2017 Closing date for submissions • April 28th, 2017 Notification of successful proposals • October, 2017 More information and details… Read more >

As of today Wednesday 1st of February Prof. dr. ir. Luuk A.M. van der Wielen, chairman of the Executive Board of BE-Basic Foundation will officially start in his new position as Director of the Bernal Institute and Bernal Professor of Biosystems Engineering & Design, University… Read more >