HORIZON-CL6-2027-01-CIRCBIO-09

Consorzio Italbiotec is the Italian leading non-profit organisation in the biotechnology sector, bringing together academic and industrial excellence in Life Sciences, Agrofood and Bioeconomy.

For HORIZON-CL6-2027-01-CIRCBIO-09 – Increasing the circularity of bio-based sector: upcycling and recycling for higher value and environmental benefits, we are interested in joining consortia developing, demonstrating and scaling safe and sustainable circular bio-based value chains, with a particular focus on the valorisation of complex bio-waste, industrial side-streams and secondary biological resources into higher-value materials, chemicals and ingredients.

Within the project, Italbiotec can directly contribute to the design and assessment of industrial symbiosis and cascading valorisation pathways, identifying how biological materials, water, energy and industrial side-streams can be efficiently exchanged and reused across different sectors. We can support the selection and comparison of alternative technological routes through techno-economic assessment (TEA), environmental Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Social LCA, quantifying production costs, resource efficiency, environmental impacts and socio-economic performance.

A key contribution can be the development of circular business models and integrated value-chain strategies. Italbiotec can analyse feedstock availability and characteristics, conversion pathways, product-market combinations and potential industrial users, helping identify the most promising routes for turning secondary bio-based resources into commercially viable products. We can also perform market and competitor analysis, exploitation planning, IP assessment and evaluation of scale-up and replication scenarios.

Our experience in EU projects also enables us to contribute to stakeholder engagement, industrial ecosystem building and knowledge transfer, connecting technology developers, feedstock owners, SMEs, industrial end-users, research organisations and regional actors. These activities can support the creation of new markets for secondary bio-based materials and provide evidence for recommendations related to regulation, standards, incentives and market uptake.