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Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU)
We fund research & innovation projects advancing circular bio-based industries in Europe under EU’s Horizon Europe
About Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU)
The Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) is a €2 billion partnership between the European Union and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC) that funds projects advancing competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe. CBE JU is operating under the rules of Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation programme, for the 2021-2031 period. The partnership is building on the success of its predecessor, the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU), while addressing the current challenges facing the industry. The CBE JU is the legal and universal successor of BBI JU in respect of all contracts, grant agreements and liabilities. The CBE JU’s objectives are ensuring a high level of bio-based industrial systems’ environmental performance, accelerating the development and market deployment of bio-based innovative solutions. CBE JU organises yearly calls for proposals supporting research and innovation, de-risking investments, addressing market challenges, placing sustainability at the heart of the projects, strengthening the collaboration of all bioeconomy actors and engaging with stakeholders along bio-based value chains.
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Signals from Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU)
15 published signals
Presence & Recognition
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) will visit Farm Zero C in Cork on 22 October as part of the CBE JU-funded Rural BioReFarmeries project.
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Presence & Recognition
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) will host a workshop on 20 October focusing on strengthening the role of primary producers in circular bio-based value chains and nature-positive systems.
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Presence & Recognition
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) will host a showcase in the EU-Ireland session featuring the Head of Programme, Virginia Puzzolo.
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Presence & Recognition
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) will exhibit biobased products developed through CBE JU-funded projects at the event foyer.
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Presence & Recognition
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) will participate in the Global Bioeconomy Summit on 20-21 October 2026.
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Research & Knowledge
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) funded the FIRST2RUN flagship biorefinery in Porto Torres, Sardinia, which now has a commercial capacity of around 350,000 tonnes per year.
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Presence & Recognition
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) is launching a new video series featuring stakeholders from across Europe's circular bioeconomy.
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Research & Knowledge
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) funded the PHACTUS project, coordinated by Sapienza Università di Roma, to scale up a fully continuous process for producing biodegradable polymers from urban organic waste and wastewater sludge.
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Research & Knowledge
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) funded Prosper Bioplastics researchers modelled how polylactic acid (PLA) moves through waste-sorting facilities.
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Research & Knowledge
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) stakeholders shared their experiences and views through an independent stakeholder study earlier this year.
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Capital & Finance
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) has channeled around €130 million into integrating primary producers into bio-based value chains since 2022, engaging 84 organisations from the agricultural, forestry and aquatic sectors.
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Partnerships
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) partners will test a farmer-centred model for the Rural BioReFarmeries project in real farming conditions at Ireland’s first on-farm demonstration-scale biorefinery in Cork.
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Partnerships
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) is developing an Innovation Action addressing the biobased transition in the textile coloring at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden in Mölndal.
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Legal & Regulatory
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) and other European partnerships are invited to share their experience and views on how these partnerships should evolve and contribute to Europe’s competitiveness through a public consultation open until 16 October 2026.
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Research & Knowledge
Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) published an article exploring seven projects advancing Europe’s algae sector and contributing to protein resilience and a competitive blue bioeconomy.
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