Welcome and introduction Introduction to Centre for Circular Bioeconomy (CBIO) and its research platforms. Head of Centre, Uffe Jørgensen, Aarhus University

Make our planet great again. Lorie Hamelin is one of only 18 researchers who have received funding from the French presidential climate plan “Make our planet great again”. Lorie is connected to CBIO, and she will introduce the French initiative and the upcoming research.    

Food production in a circular bioeconomy. ARLA is financing a professorship in bioeconomy at Aarhus University. What is the background and what are the expectations to research in CBIO? Life Cycle Sustainability Manager Anna Flysjö, ARLA Foods.

Recommendations on bioeconomy. The Danish government has appointed a National Bioeconomic Panel. On behalf of the panel, Niels Gøtke will review the expected recommendations from the panel. Niels Gøtke is Head of Division at the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation.

Scaling up – from research to industry.  How do we scale from experiments to industry - and how does Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant collaborate with industry? Head R&D Brecht Vanlerberghe, BBEPP.     

Unique biorefinery facilities. CBIO cooperates with the AU Center for Biorefinery at the Institute of Engineering. Head of centre Ib Johannsen will introduce the centre –existing facilities as well as the coming demonstration facility for extracting protein from green grass and legumes.