BIOMAC will participate in the online Workshop organized by the INN-PRESSME project. The aim of the workshop, which will take place on Wednesday 20 October 2021, 10:00-11:30 CET is to bring together OITBs (Open Innovation Test Beds), SMEs, industry associations, clusters, universities, and research centres and to build awareness on the OITB services for customers and SMEs which will bring their own ideas and materials to be scaled up by the Test Beds. An overview of BIOMAC and its goals will be presented in the workshop by the project coordinator, Prof. Dimitrios Bikiaris.
But what is an Open Innovation Test Bed?
An Open Innovation Test Bed is a set of entities, established in at least three Member States or Associated Countries, providing common access to physical facilities, capabilities and services required for the development, testing and upscaling of nanotechnology and advanced materials in industrial environments. The objective of the Open Innovation Test Beds is to bring nanotechnologies and advanced materials within the reach of companies and users in order to advance from validation in a laboratory (TRL 4) to prototypes in industrial environments (TRL 7).
The BIOMAC Open Innovation Test Bed
BIOMAC (European Sustainable BIO-based nanoMAterials Community) is a Horizon2020 project that will establish an Open Innovation Test Bed where technologies and solutions utilising nano-enabled bio-based materials (NBMs) will be upscaled and prepared for market applications.
The BIOMAC Ecosystem will provide open access to its facilities (17 Pilot Lines) and complementary services required for the development, testing and upscaling of materials and products in the field of nano-enabled bio-based products and materials. The Pilots Lines of BIOMAC cover the whole value chain, from biomass fractionation and intermediate chemicals to final NBMs.
After the validation of the BIOMAC ecosystem through 5 internal test cases (TeCs) in the fields of automotive, agricultural, food packaging, construction and printed electronics industries, an open call for expression of interest for stakeholders will be launched, inviting 5 more intra TeCs to assess the OITB. BIOMAC will function as an one-stop-shop accecible at fair conditions and costs through a single entry point, represented by European Bioplastics.
The ambition of BIOMAC is to boost and sustain innovation in the field of European bio-economy industries, by reducing the time-to-market of novel nanotechnologies, thus reducing cost and risks.
The role of BikiarisLab in the BIOMAC OITB
Prof. Dimitrios Bikiaris is the Project Coordinator of BIOMAC. A team from our laboratory, in collaboration with the laboratory of Prof. Konstantinos Triantafyllidis are managing the project with a highly skilled management team that comprises of postdoctoral researchers. They are responsible for coordinating the 34 partners and ensure the succesful implementation of the project. Additionallly, the laboratory of Prof. Triantafyllidis contributes with the Pilot Line: Sugar derived polyols and diols by catalytic hydrogenation/hydrogenolysis which will participate in 3 out of the 5 test cases, providing them with raw materials for monomer production.
How to join the workshop
For more information and to register to the workshop, click here.
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