The BBI JU Stakeholder Forum 2017 brought together the bio-based industries community to facilitate discussion on the strategic direction for the BBI JU programme through constructive and open dialogue with stakeholders by encouraging cross-collaboration between them.The inaugural Stakeholder Forum took …

The LIBBIO project is about researching the potential of Andes Lupin for breeding cropping and biorefinery. 14 partners from 8 different EU countries cooperate together. Hanze University of Applied Sciences is technical-scientific coordinator of this 5 mio€ project. Project duration is from 2016 to 202 …

A year later, in 2013, the Westerkwartier Area Cooperative was established – a new form of cooperation at the regional level, involving hundreds of dairy farmers, other SMEs, Terra MBO as the representative of the knowledge institutions in the region, the National Forest Service in the Netherlands (‘Staatsbosbeheer’), …

Dit boek is het resultaat van het SIA Raak MKB project “Biocomposieten voor civiele en bouwkundige toepassingen; Biobased brug”. Het is geschreven voor bedrijfsleven en studenten van het MBO, het HBO en de universiteiten. Het project leverde een haalbaarheidsonderzoek van een volledig biocomposieten …

Symposium ter gelegenheid van lector-installatie "Transitie Bioeconomie"

Inaugural lecture Professorship "Transition Bioeconomy"

In the housing market enormous challenges exist for the retrofitting of existing housing in combination with the ambition to realize new environmentally friendly and affordable dwellings. Bio-based building materials offer the possibility to use renewable resources in building and construction. The efficient …

Abstract of a lecture that was held on the annual congress of AESOP (Association of European Schools of Planning) in 2014.

Are we at the eve of a transformation in our economic system? “Yes”, according to several visionary scientists and policymakers. They predict the rise of an economy that is based on biological materials, the so-called bio-based economy. The key challenge is that due to several socio-economic developments, …

Stichting Probos ziet kansen voor wilgenenergieplantages in kippenuitlopen en heeft daarom een pilotproject opgezet. Gevraagd is onderzoek uit te voeren naar de totale potentie waarbij de kansen, kosten en baten zijn onderzocht. Tot nu toe zijn er geen ervaringen met wilgenplantages in de kippenuitloop …