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Acceleration of transition to a bioeconomy in horticulture

Priority Axis

Resource Efficient Economy

Specific objective

Circular Economy

Lead partner

Municipality of Westland

Begindatum

01/11/2016

Einddatum

31/12/2020

Project budget

5 873 743

ERDF amount

3 381 513

ERDF rate

58%

    Over

    Common challenge

    The project addresses the need for an environmentally friendly and resource efficient economy focusing on horticulture, using plant resources in a more sustainable, efficient and integrated manner. Although the horticulture industry presents multifaceted societal benefits, the need for transition towards bio-economy is largely overlooked so far. There is much potential, but development, testing and uptake of green innovations is slow due to suboptimal interaction between researchers and SMEs, problematic financing and lack of cross disciplinary working and effective support strategies.

    Main Achievements

    The project ended in 2020, many products were delivered during project life time:
    • Seminar 'Saving waste in horticulture: Optimising resources', in Cambridge-UK with strong interest from industry, research institutes and public authorities.
    • Seminar 'Agro-food waste streams: from cost to source of income', in Beitem-BE. Project activities were presented and entrepreneurs shared success stories.
    • Project's own website, with results of all project activities, 90 news articles and the publication of 10 newsletters have contributed to obtaining more attention for the circular economy and opportunities in horticultural industry.
    • Reports about 'Stabilisation tests of horticultural waste streams', about 'Green pesticides' with tests to determine the performance of biocontrol agents made of organic by-products, 'Lab scale & pilot scale experiments with mealworm and black soldier fly' with focus on insects as a promising way of converting horticultural residues into valuable protein, oil and derived products, 'Valorisation of crop co-products to produce colourants and new products for cosmetics', 'Pretreatment methods and techniques', with food applications made from residual flows, 'Harvesting and logistic chain', for optimisation of collecting horticultural residuals.
    • Regional collaborations (horticultural industry, researchers, public authorities) (co)organised in total over 90 activities in the participating regions in the UK, NL and BE with in total over 12,000 participants.
    • Campaign 'More profit, less waste', to increase awareness in the horticultural industry for applications of green residuals. A short movie was made and campaign posters, 4 theme weeks were organised.
    • Bioeconomy Learning Module Horticulture and a related educational boardgame, also an online version.
    • The digital BioBoost Platform was launched to stimulate and connect biobased initiatives in horticulture. The core consists of examples of new applications of horticultural residues. Presently 71 examples. Continuation is secured after project lifetime.
    • A strategy to 'boost' utilisation of horticultural residues is developed and summarised in the strategy brochure 'From waste to source of income', presented to 17 public authorities (NL, UK, BE).
    • Successful pilots were implemented in preparation of full scale production installations for insect breeding and production of chipboard from green residuals.
    • Online end event in which the main results and the strategy were presented.

    Partnership

    Partners

    Catholic University College VIVES

    Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO/EVILVO)

    Centre of Expertise for Plant Compounds (Foundation)

    NIAB (National Institute of Agricultural Botany)

    Inagro

    Greenpack

    Transportbedrijf Van Vliet B.V.

    Epping Forrest District Council

    Outputs

    Type
    Target
    URL / Download
    28/02/2020

    BIOBOOST

    Thema: Agriculture and horticultureCircular economy
    Type: Strategy/action plan
    Target: Local, regional and national authorities
    22/11/2019

    BIOBOOST

    Thema: Agriculture and horticultureCircular economy
    Type: Strategy/action plan
    Target: Innovation agencies
    31/12/2019

    BIOBOOST

    Thema: Agriculture and horticultureCircular economy
    Type: Network
    Target: Innovation agencies
    13/12/2019

    BIOBOOST

    Thema: Agriculture and horticultureCircular economy
    Type: Strategy/action plan
    Target: Citizens
    28/12/2019

    BIOBOOST

    Thema: Agriculture and horticultureCircular economy
    Type: e-infrastructure/online tool
    Target: Innovation agencies
    31/03/2020

    BIOBOOST

    Thema: Agriculture and horticultureCircular economy
    Type: Pilot and demonstration action
    Target: Innovation agencies