CBE JU funds three types of actions:

• Research and Innovation Actions (RIAs) establish new knowledge or explore the feasibility of a new or improved technology, product, process, service, or solution. These may include basic and applied research, technology development and integration, testing, demonstration, and validation on a small-scale prototype, in a laboratory or simulated environment. 

• Innovation Actions (IAs) scale up activities from prototype to product validation and market replication. Flagships, an essential and specific type of IAs, in particular, deploy a first-of-its-kind innovation on the European market. 

• Coordination and Support Actions (CSAs), among other things, structure stakeholder communities, support technological visions and outreach, and disseminate and exploit research results. No link with TRLs

Detailed information about the amounts funded can be summarized as follows:

• Innovation actions – flagship (IA-flagship)

  - Urban-industrial symbiosis for bio-waste valorisation - €20 million

  - Bio-based drop-ins/smart drop-in platform chemicals, via cost-effective, sustainable and resource-efficient conversion of biomass - €20 million

  - Circular-by-design fibre-based packaging with improved properties - €20 million

  - Retrofitting of (bio)refineries industrial plants towards higher-value bio-based products - €20 million

• Innovation actions (IA)

  - Sustainable macroalgae systems for innovative, added-value applications: cultivation and optimised production systems - €14 million

  - Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) bio-based solutions to replace hazardous conventional chemicals for textiles production - €14 million

  - Scaling-up nutritional proteins from alternative sources - €14 million

  - Cost-effective and robust continuous biotech bio-based processes - €14 million

  - SSbD bio-based polymers/copolymers unlocking new market applications - €14 million

• Research and innovation actions (RIA)

  - Valorisation of untapped forest biomass - €7 million

  - Bio-based and biodegradable delivery systems for fertilising products to reduce microplastics pollution & promote soil health - €7 million

  - Alternative biomanufacturing routes for natural and synthetic rubber - €7 million

• Coordination and support actions (CSA)

  - Develop and deploy new curricula and knowledge exchange practices relevant to bio-based systems - €1 million

In total, 21 projects will be funded and the funding will be provided by the European Union and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC)

Call launch: 3 April 2025

Call deadline: 18 September 2025 17:00 CET

Funding rate 

• RIA: 100% - TRL: 3-5

• IA: 60% (100% non-profit) - TRL: 6-8

• CSA: 100% - No link with TRLs