‘Ambition Bioeconomy Hauts-de-France’ shares a common vision: “Commit together to a bioeconomy that provides jobs, sustainable growth and resilience for our territory in the service of society”.
The partners’ objective is to make the bioeconomy a lever for economic growth and employments in the Hauts-De-France region, particularly in rural areas, and thus to:
- Strengthen and support the competitiveness and industrialisation of companies in the bioeconomy sector.
- Attract French and foreign investments to the regional territory.
- Consolidate the leading positioning of the Hauts-de-France region for the Bioeconomy: from the field to finished products.
At the intersection of numerous sectors, ‘Ambition Bioeconomy Hauts-de-France’ will act promptly on thematic clusters:
- Production and sustainable mobilization of bioresources
- Management and valorisation of renewable carbon
- Biomass transformation processes and technologies
- Bio-based products and materials, for the transport, construction, sport, and leisure markets, etc.
- Plant chemistry application markets
- Innovative food and feed ingredients
- Plant proteins and new proteins (algae, insects, fermentation)
- Methanization
- Biofuel
The partners
‘Ambition Bioeconomy Hauts-de-France’ is supported by six leading partners, covering the entire bioeconomy sector, from the production of biomass to finished products, including the removal of technological and economic bottlenecks in processes, as well as understanding marketing aspects and consumer needs. This Ambition constitutes an important strike force to accelerate the strengthening, the attraction and creation of businesses in the regional territory.
‘Ambition Bioeconomy Hauts-de-France’ also relies on the HDFID networks and the CCI Hauts-de-France to detect new opportunities and will ensure good articulation and sharing of information between the structures.
BIOECONOMY FOR CHANGE is the reference network for the bioeconomy. It brings together 500 members, from upstream agriculture to the marketing of finished products.
ADRIANOR aims to support food manufacturers in all their technical issues from the kitchen to the factory.
AGRO-TRANSFERT, RESSOURCES ET TERRITOIRES is both an application platform and an agricultural research transfer network.
CODEM is a centre for transfer, skills, and knowledge, regarding sustainable construction, formulation, and characterization of eco-materials.
EXTRACTIS is a service provider specializing in the field of extraction, fractionation, and chemistry of plant biomass for the development of innovative products and processes.
ITERRA is the incubator and accelerator for bioeconomy start-ups.
Associate members
FIBOIS HAUTS-DE-FRANCE is the inter-professional association and the regional Cluster of Excellence for the forestry sector in the Hauts-de-France.
CRITT POLYMÈRES is a Technology Transfer Centre serving companies concerned with polymers and plastics.
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FUNDING, PROJECTS, AND NETWORKS
Funding
Search for public and private funding, including European.
Projects Support
Analysis of needs, structuring and setting up of innovation and industrialisation projects.
Network
Analysis of needs and qualified connections.
R&D, SCALE-UP AND CUSTOM PRODUCTION
Bioresources
Identification of current and potential deposits, production routes, biomass design
Materials
Formulation, development, scale up and characterization.
Ingredients and Molecules
Design and development of processes, qualification of techno-functional properties and application tests
Food and Feed
Formulation, finished product characterization and pre-series for industrial validation and market tests.
Start-up
Incubation & Acceleration
Personalized support for the development of your start-up
Fundraising
Assistance with fundraising and connection with investors.
Innovation and industrialisation
Strategic analysis, advice, support towards industrialisation.
MONITORING AND ADVICE
Tailor-made Studies
Technical feasibility, market study, opportunity detection and supply analysis, carbon footprint, LCA.
Strategic Advice
Assistance in decision-making and identification of new business opportunities.
Eco-design and Regulation
Environmental design & impact measurement, support in the normative and labelling process.
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