HORIZON-JU-CBE-2024-CSA-02 – Mobilize Inclusive Participation In Bio-Based Systems And Supporting The CBE JU Widening Strategy And Its Action Plan

Celignis started its journey as company spun off from research in an EU-funded FP7 project (DIBANET) and has grown over the years to become a globally-recognised service provider for the bioeconomy. Though Celignis is based in Ireland, which is not amongst the list of the countries in CBE-JU widening strategy, our involvement in consortium under this topic will help in knowledge-exchange, especially for newcomers from the industrial sector. Celignis can guide the partners from CBE-JU widening strategy countries on promoting their research, attracting funds, and developing their technologies for commercial exploitation.

Additionally, to date Celignis has been a participant in 10 EU-funded collaborative research projects (including H2020), of which 4 are BBI/CBE projects. In addition to these projects, Celignis is successful in 3 proposals from the 2023 CBE-JU work programme. Hence, Celignis is an SME, yet very active in R&I activities developing technologies in collaboration with other companies, universities and research institutes. Celignis has collaboration partners from the majority of the countries in Europe and can bring in its expertise in creation of an online platform (with information resources, webinars, and training courses), aiming at the exchange of best practices and guidelines to participate in EU proposals and, specifically in CBE-JU calls.

More info at:

https://www.celignis.com/horizon-ju-cbe-2024-csa-02.php

Background on Celignis:

Celignis is an SME that was spun-out from an EU research project (the FP7 advanced biofuels project DIBANET) that was written and coordinated by Celignis's founder Daniel Hayes.

It has now been over ten years since the end of that project and over that time Celignis has grown in size and reputation and now occupies a valuable niche as being the premier analytical and bioprocess development provider to clients in the biomass sector. We provide a wide range of compositional analysis services and bioprocessing expertise to a diverse array of customers (including SMEs, multinationals, and universities) looking to utilise biomass feedstocks, residues and wastes for the production of biobased products, biofuels, and energy.

In April 2023 Celignis joined the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) as a Full Industry SME Member, meaning that we can contribute to the strategic direction and future calls of the CBE-JU and that Celignis is an eligible partner for all CBE-JU actions. The CBE requires that any Large Industry or SME partner in Innovation Action (end TRL 6/7) or Flagship (end TRL 8) projects is a BIC member.

Celignis is a partner in 1 ongoing CBE project, with a further 3 (successful awardees of CBE-JU funding in the 2023 call) starting between May and Sept 2024. The ongoing project, PERFECOAT is a RIA (Research and Innovation Action) project, whilst the 3 upcoming projects (BIONEER, PROMOFER, and MANUREFINERY) are Innovation Action (TRL 6/7) projects. The extensive developments in processing capacity (up to 1m3) by Celignis Bioprocess over the last few years make us particularly suited to participation in such higher-TRL topics.

Regarding our completed CBE-JU projects, they were funded as part of the Biomass Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU) programme. Click here to read more about our ongoing and completed CBE/BBI projects.

In addition to these CBE projects, Celignis is currently active in a number of other research projects funded by the EU's Horizon programme. Click here to read more about these projects and here to learn more about our completed EU projects.

"Celignis had successful proposals in over 40% of the CBE-JU Innovation Action topics in 2023. Our Full-Industry BIC membership and extensive scaled-up bioprocessing capabilities make us particularly suited to participation in IA proposals"

More details on Celignis at:

https://www.celignis.com/about.php