Call Waarde uit Biomassa

Value from Biomass is a cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral initiative of the NWO Domain Science and the NWO Domain Social Sciences and Humanities together with participating Top sectors Chemistry, Energy and Top Institute for Knowledge and Innovation Biobased Economy.

Value from Biomass addresses the transition from an economy that runs on fossil feedstock to an economy that runs on sustainable alternatives. The aim of the call is to fund ground breaking (fundamental) science and deliver responsible and innovative solutions for biomass conversion in a societally relevant context. The creative industry can also contribute to this subject.

Call 2019 for multidisciplinary consortia
A coherent interdisciplinary approach is required to tackle these large and urgent scientific, economic and societal challenges. NWO therefore wants to bring researchers active in the exact and natural sciences domain, researchers form the social sciences and humanities domain and industry together in public-private partnerships (PPP). With these consortia, fundamental, precompetitive research in the area of biomass conversion combined with responsible innovation can be stimulated.

The call invites project proposals from multidisciplinary consortia that address both molecular and technological challenges as well as the societal aspects of the biomass value chain. The NWO Responsible Innovation (MVI) approach needs to be included in all proposals. The call, with the terms and conditions, has been published. The deadline for submitting proposals is 13 June 2019.

Budget
The available NWO budget for this call is 2.790.000 euros. The projects will have a size between 500.000 and 900.000 euros. The private partners will have to contribute at least 30 percent of the project budget needed (of which at least half in cash + in kind).

When
The deadline of this call is 13 June, 14:00h CEST.

For more information about this call, please visit the NWO website.

Matchmaking
At 28 March there will be a matchmaking event about this call.