Themes & Objectives

Setting the stage

Exploring the Future of Industrial Biotechnology & Bioeconomy

SUSTAINABLE BIOMATERIALS

Sustainable biomaterials – Perspectives on circularity and renewability

This session will bring together various perspectives on circularity and renewability in sustainable biomaterials. It will explore the crucial role that biomaterials play in the bioeconomy, as well as the importance of balanced life cycle assessment analyses.

BIOPROCESSES & TECHNOLOGIES

Bioprocesses & Technologies – Supporting the bio-based transition

This session will focus on the transition from fossil-based to bio-based, and how industrial biotechnology and novel bioprocesses can support this transition towards a European Bioeconomy across sectors.

SUSTAINABLE FINANCE

Sustainable Finance – Opportunities and challenges for bio-based innovation

This session will look at the opportunities and challenges for sustainable finance linked to bio-based innovation. It will cover the trends in strategic decisions for investments, as well as the drivers for those trends, and how financial decision making varies across players.

FOOD, FEED & NUTRITION

Food, feed & nutrition – Novel approaches for food systems innovation

This session will explore novel approaches for innovation in food systems, from novel production processes and solutions to collaborations and ecosystem development. It will bring together speakers from across the food system value chain to share perspectives on increasing the sustainability and resilience of the EU food system, also in the context of the EU Framework for Sustainable Food Systems.

FOOD, FEED & NUTRITION

Legislation Round Table: New Genomic Techniques

Current legislative proposals on NGTs address plants and Europe needs to look to the longer-term. EuropaBio members and invited guests will discuss ambitions and achievements for Europe and how this helps to deliver the EU industrial strategy and Green Deal within a global context.

SUSTAINABLE FINANCE

Biomanufacturing – Europe’s Industrial transformation

This session brings EuropaBio’s Biomanufacturing Platform to EFIB for the first time, with case studies across sectors.

Advancing Bioinnovation for Sustainability

Join and discuss at EFIB 2023

EFIB 2023 brings together stakeholders to discuss scientific, business, and regulatory advances and trends in bioprocesses and biomanufacturing, sustainable finance, and circular bioeconomy.