Bio-Innovation Support for Entrepreneurs throughout North-West European regions

The BioBase4SME network, representing many leading bio-based economy experts, will advise SMEs from across North-West Europe on how to develop new ideas into marketable products. The BioBase4SME project intends to help Start-ups and SME to overcome technological and non-technological barriers to bring their innovation to market. The project offers:

• Professional Training
• Innovation bootcamps
• Innovation vouchers

The support offered through the voucher system can consist of:

• Technical assistance such as scale-up to pilot scale
• Life Cycle Assessment
• Techno-economic evaluation
• Market research
• Feedstock analysis
• Social acceptance
• Business planning and business plan support
• …

or a combination thereof.

For more information, please, contact your regional Bio-Innovation Agent (see below) or go to www.nweurope.eu for the full project website.

Project PARTNERS and the SERVICES they offer:

• AC3A (France)
  • Bio-Innovation Agent for France: Pascal Dagron  – +33 (0)253 466 257
  • Services: Social acceptance, Trainings, Workshops
• Bio Base Europe Pilot Plant (Belgium)
  • Project Manager: Lieve Hoflack – +32 (0)494 47 68 68
  • Communication Manager: Katrien Molders – +32 (0)486 951 109
  • Services: Process development and scale-up incl. techno-economic evaluation, networking
• CLIB2021 (Germany)
  • Bio-Innovation Agent for Germany: Carolin Lange – +49 (0)211 679 31 34
  • Services: Networking, Trainings, Workshops
• Ghent Bio-Economy Valley (Belgium)
  • Bio-Innovation Agent for Flanders: Sofie Dobbelaere – +32 (0)9 264 59 05
  • Services: Networking, Trainings, Workshops
• Materia Nova (Belgium)
  • Bio-Innovation Agent for Wallonia: Guillaume Wégria – +32 (0)484 13 90 07
  • Services: Life-Cycle Assessment, Trainings, Workshops
• NNFCC (UK)
  • Bio-Innovation Agent for UK: Davide Di Maio – +44 (0)1904 435182
  • Services: Market research, feedstock analysis, business plan support, trainings, workshops, innovation bootcamps, networking
• REWIN (NL)
  • Bio-Innovation Agent for The Netherlands: Dennis van der Pas – + 31 (0)6 513 599 94
  • Services: Application testing, trainings, workshops, networking
  • Interested in providing your expert knowledge? Read about the BioBase4SME purchasing procedure and make us an offer.
• TCBB Resource (Ireland)
  • Bio-Innovation Agent for Ireland: Pádraic Ó hUiginn – +353 (0)87 905 3806
  • Services: pilot equipment for anaerobic digestion and pyrolysis, trainings, workshops

BioBase4SME is supported by INTERREG North-West Europe (NWE):

INTERREG NWE is a European Territorial Cooperation Programme funded by the European Commission (through the European Fund for Regional Development, EFRD) with the ambition to make the North-West Europe area a key economic player and an attractive place to work and live, with high levels of innovation, sustainability and cohesion. It invests EUR 370 million of European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in activities based on the cooperation of organisations from eight countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.