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Programme 2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Date of latest update: 2024-01-29

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Description (EN):

North Sea Region (NSR) economic activity and growth are mostly found in urban areas. Rural NSR regions experience population decline and negative economic growth. The BIOCAS project expects revitalizing and greening of rural areas go hand in hand. BIOCAS will develop rural areas of the NSR into smart specialized regions for integrated and local valorization of biomass.13 Commercial running Bio-Cascade-Alliances (BCA’s) will be piloted, evaluated and actively shared in the involved regions. These proven concepts will accelerate adoption of high to low value bio-cascading technologies and businesses in rural regions.The project connects 18 regional initiatives around technologies, processes, businesses for the conversion of biomass streams. The initiatives collaborate in a thematic approach: Through engineering, value chain assessments, BCA’s building, partners tackle challenges that are shared by rural areas. I.e. unsustainable biomass use, a mineral surplus and soil degradation, deprivation of potentially valuable resources, and limited involvement of regional businesses and SMEs in existing bio-economy developments.The 18 partners are strongly embedded in regional settings, connected to many local partners. They will align stakeholders in BCA’s that would not have cooperated without BIOCAS interventions.Triple helix, science, business and governmental input will realize inclusive lasting bio cascade businesses, transforming costly waste to resources and viable business.

Achievements (EN):

BIOCAS set out to develop rural areas in North Sea Region into smart specialized regions through integrated and local valorization of biomass. The aim was to generate economic, societal and ecological benefits and prosperity. The tool we decides to use were: 1. Create inspiring examples of green growth in rural areas, 2. Involve target groups, 3. Develop smart use of resources, 4. Reduce CO2 emissions, and 5. Improve soil fertility. At the end of the project, it is very satisfying to realize that in the big picture, this is exactly what we did. Biocascading alliances (BCAs) have been the 'basecamp' for partners to develop their products or processes. In these BCAs different types of organizations worked together (eg. SMEs, universities/schools, research institutes and public organizations) and attracted new/potential partners by their enthusiasm, best practices and findings. Therefore supporting industrial transition towards a resource efficient economy, promoting green growth, eco-innovation and environmental performance management in the public and private sectors. By valorising biomass and working in biocascading chains to reach this, the project has tested and piloted various ways of promoting resource efficiency. By focusing on products and processes to substitute less ecofriendly products and processes (eg. bioplastics instead of 'normal' plastic, biogas to make electricity instead of natural gas or coals), partners contribute to the protection of the environment. Some good examples of activities in the BCAs: farmers events that were organized in the Partnership Lolland Falster, field trials and demo days in various places in Lower Saxony, the biocups BCA where an SME worked together with creative industry, universities for applied sciences and producers of moulds and materials, various events where the public could experience products that were developed within BIOCAS and several meetings of partners and interested industry or SMEs to talk about upscaling. The more we moved to the end of the project, the more results were shared with the world and this led to more cooperation. Within the project, but partners have also informed parties in their external chains and started looking into possible new partnerships. During the project we learned that circular, cascade business cases are very often immature, vulnerable and risky business cases, and more time is needed for the green transition mindset to settle in society in general, as the new sustainable value chains rely on either public financing or consumers ready to help the new products become economically sustainable. Partners are more than willing to continue and expand the journey they started in BIOCAS after the project has been finalized. And that might be the biggest result we have reached with this project!

Website: https://northsearegion.eu/biocas

Thematic information

Renewable energy Rural and peripheral development

Specific Objective: Promote the development and adoption of products, services and processes to accelerate greening of the North Sea Region economy

Thematic Objective: (06) preserving and protecting the environment and promoting resource efficiency by:

Investment Priority: (06g) supporting industrial transition towards a resource- efficient economy, promoting green growth, eco-innovation and environmental performance management in the public and private sectors

Partners (12)

Lead Partner: Provincie Fryslân

Address: Postbus 20120, 8900 HM Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.fryslan.frl

Total budget: EUR 384 000.00

ERDF budget: EUR 192 000.00

3N Kompetenzzentrum – Niedersachsen Netzwerk Nachwachsene Rohstoffe und Bioökonomie e.V.

Name: 3N Kompetenzzentrum – Niedersachsen Netzwerk Nachwachsene Rohstoffe und Bioökonomie e.V.

Address: Kompaniestraße 1, 49757 Werlte, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.3-n.info

Total budget: EUR 253 104.00

ERDF budget: EUR 126 552.00

Aarhus Universitet

Name: Aarhus Universitet

Address: Nordre Ringgade, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.au.dk

Total budget: EUR 501 753.00

ERDF budget: EUR 250 876.00

Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

Name: Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg

Address: Ammerländer Heerstraße 114-118, 26129 Oldenburg, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.coast.uni-oldenburg.de/

Total budget: EUR 823 182.00

ERDF budget: EUR 411 591.00

Hanze Hogeschool

Name: Hanze Hogeschool

Address: Postbus 30030, 9700 RM Groningen, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.hanze.nl

Total budget: EUR 392 833.00

ERDF budget: EUR 196 416.00

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Name: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Address: Jan De Nayerlaan 5, 2860 Sint-Katelijne-Waver, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.kuleuven.be

Total budget: EUR 61 724.00

ERDF budget: EUR 30 862.00

Landkreis Heidekreis

Name: Landkreis Heidekreis

Address: Vogteistraße 19, 29683 Bad Fallingbostel, Germany

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.heidekreis.de

Total budget: EUR 443 810.00

ERDF budget: EUR 221 905.00

Rinagro B.V.

Name: Rinagro B.V.

Address: Buorren 4, 8756 JP Piaam, Netherlands

Legal status: private

Website: http://www.rinagro.nl

Total budget: EUR 243 101.00

ERDF budget: EUR 121 550.00

Syddansk Universitet Institut for Kemi-, Bio- og Miljøteknologi

Name: Syddansk Universitet Institut for Kemi-, Bio- og Miljøteknologi

Address: Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.sdu.dk

Total budget: EUR 767 405.00

ERDF budget: EUR 383 702.00

Universiteit Gent

Name: Universiteit Gent

Address: Technologiepark 903, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.composites.ugent.be

Total budget: EUR 21 539.00

ERDF budget: EUR 10 769.00

Van Hall Larenstein

Name: Van Hall Larenstein

Address: Agora 1, 8934 CJ Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.vhluniversity.com

Total budget: EUR 309 074.00

ERDF budget: EUR 154 537.00

Center for Erhvervsrettede uddannelser Lolland Falster

Name: Center for Erhvervsrettede uddannelser Lolland Falster

Address: Kringelborg alle 7, 4800 Nykobing, Denmark

Legal status: public

Website: http://www.celf.dk

Total budget: EUR 156 797.00

ERDF budget: EUR 78 398.00

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Province of Fryslan

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3N Centre of Experts, Lower Saxony Network for Renewable Resources and Bioeconomy

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University of Aarhus

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Oldenburg University, Centre for Environmentental and Sustainability Research

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Hanze University Applied Sciences

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Katholieke University Leuven

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District administration of Heidekreis

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Rinagro

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University of Southern Denmark, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Environmental Technology

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Universiteit Gent

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Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences

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Center for vocational education Lolland Falster

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Project name (EN): circular BIOmass CAScade to 100%

Project acronym: BIOCAS

Project start date: 2017-07-01

Project end date: 2021-12-30

Project status: closed

Total budget/expenditure: EUR 4 969 239.00

Total EU funding (amount): EUR 2 484 614.00

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2014 - 2020 INTERREG VB North Sea

Last month that data in keep.eu was retrieved from the Programme's website or received from the Programme

2023-02-14

No. of projects in keep.eu / Total no. of projects (% of projects in keep.eu)

73 / 73 (100%)

No. of project partnerships in keep.eu / Total no. of project partnerships (% of project partnerships in keep.eu)

871 / 871 (100%)

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Information provided by the Programme. Achievements were retrieved by Interact from the Programme website (http://www.northsearegion.eu/), or a website directly linked from it, on 2021-09-20 and 2023-01-12.

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