Driving Innovation
Webinar
Merlin Goldman, Graham Mobbs and Colin Miles
5 March 2012
Driving Innovation
Outline
• BBSRC and TSB Priorities
• Purpose of ERANETs
• ERANET in Industrial Biotechnology
– Background
– 3rd call: scope and funding rules
• ERANET in Bioenergy
– Background
– 6th call: scope and funding rules
Driving Innovation
Driving Innovation
ERANETs
• Mechanism launched in FP 6
• To increase the cooperation and coordination
of research activities by developing joint
activities or calls
• More than 1000 programme owners and
managers participate in the 71 ERA-NETs
Driving Innovation
ERANET in Industrial Biotechnology
• Launched in 2006 with a budget of €2.5m
• First call
– 10 countries participated
– 32 proposals received, 8 funded
– 9.7M Euro
• Second call
– 11 countries participated,
– 46 proposals received, 10 funded
– 11.1M Euro
Driving Innovation
ERA-IB Funded Projects
• Bio-based production of chemical building blocks:
Corynebacterium glutamicum as a platform for new and
efficient bioprocesses
• Implementation an Enzyme Engineering Technology
Platform for the provision of tailor-made enzymes for
biocatalytic synthesis
• Enzyme Production in Optimized Streptomyces
• Novel enzyme tools for production of functional
oleochemicals from unsaturated lipids
• Integrated, multi-host approach for the improved microbial
production of high quality therapeutic enzymes and proteins
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Other examples available from newsletters on www.era-ib.net
Driving Innovation
ERA-IB Third Call Rules
• Submissions of proposals will be in two steps
through ERA-IB site:
– (1) pre-proposals must be submitted by 30 April 2012,
– (2) full proposals must be submitted by 31 July 2012.
• Projects are expected to start in early 2013.
• Joint projects must have a minimum of 3 and a
maximum of 8 participants from a minimum of 3
ERA-IB partner countries.
• List of other funders available on www.era-ib.net
Driving Innovation
ERA-IB Third Call Topics
• Improved enzyme systems for new and more efficient bioprocesses
• Improvement of microorganisms by metabolic engineering and
synthetic and systems biology approaches
• Innovative down-stream processing
• Innovative fermentation and bio-catalytic processes, e.g. for
platform chemicals, including bio-monomers, oligomers and
polymers
• Biological processing (including separation and conversion) of
biomass, including from side streams, and other renewable carbon
sources into value added products
• New valuable products by plant and animal cell cultures
Driving Innovation
UK Rules for ERA-IB
• BBSRC
– Standard eligibility rules will apply (www.bbsrc.ac.uk)
– £3m available
• Technology Strategy Board
– Full rules available on _connect and innovateuk.org
– £1m available, €300,000 Euros per UK participant in any
single project.
– The maximum amount of funds a single company can apply
for in the call is €300,000.
– Industry partners are eligible for 50% funding of project costs.
Driving Innovation
ERANET in Bioenergy
• Launched in 2002 with a budget of €2.8m
• 5 calls: small-scale combustion, gasification,
short rotation coppice, clean biomass
combustion, sustainable forest management,
biorefinery, syngas
Driving Innovation
6th Call Rules
• Submissions of proposals will be in two steps:
– (1) pre-proposals must be submitted by 13 May 2012
– (2) full proposals must be submitted by 20 August 2012
• Projects are expected to start in early 2013.
• Proposals must include partners from at least
three of the countries involved in the call
• It is strongly recommended that one or more
industrial partners are included
• List of other funders available on
http://www.eranetbioenergy.net
Driving Innovation
Sixth Call Topics (1)
– Pre-treatment technologies for new and existing crops for biogas production, with the
aim to increase biogas yields
– Making use of unexploited substrates such as locally important plants, new species,
agricultural residues such as straw, grass and manure, industrial organic residues, or
landscaping material and other more difficult substrates for digestion
– Measurement and control: for plants of all scales, but especially for small scales: costefficient measuring technology for small plants.
– System management of injecting biogas, not fully upgraded , into the grid, and
management of biogas injection and biogas in combination with other renewable
energies
– Cost-efficient technologies for upgrading to natural gas quality at all scales, but
especially at small scale: technologies with a high cleaning capacity and minimal
emissions from the upgrading process
– Management of the digestate (influence of different substrates/blends, treatment,
upgrading/processing, use, health and safety) and effects on economic/environmental
sustainability (e.g. closing of nutrient cycles)
– System analysis as accompanying research, such as environmental or economic
studies (comparing different production systems in LCAs, assessing GHG emissions)
Driving Innovation
Sixth Call Topics (2)
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Optimising existing crops and testing new alternative ones through plant breeding
and through cultivation techniques with regard to:
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Increased yield and biotic & abiotic stress tolerance
Increased water and nutrient efficiency
Increased energy output
Qualities adapted to the planned end use(s) of the crops
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Studies including e.g. economic appraisals, comparisons of production systems
under different climatic conditions, or environmental aspects (e.g. biodiversity, soil
protection)
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Breeding and cultivation of crops for cascading use of resources and increase of
value adding components; use of residues (multiple products should, in the frame of
this call, always include energy)
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Breeding of new crops, including possible species for intercropping, break/catch
crops and including analysis methods for phenotyping
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Logistics, such as harvesting and storage technologies, transport (pre-treatment of
energy feedstocks and later stages of the value chain are NOT covered by this call)
Driving Innovation
UK Rules
• BBSRC and EPSRC
– The RCUK Energy Programme is pleased to provide in principle
support for the 6th Joint Call for Research and Development
Proposals of the ERA-NET Bioenergy.
– Standard eligibility rules will apply:
• http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding/apply/eligibility-overview.aspx
• http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/research/Pages/Eligibilityforrcs.aspx
– £3m available
• Technology Strategy Board (to be confirmed)
– Full rules available on _connect and innovateuk.org
– £0.5m available, €300,000 Euros per UK participant in any single
project.
– The maximum amount of funds a single company can apply for in the
call is €300,000.
– Industry partners are eligible for 50% funding of project costs.
Driving Innovation
Contacts
Vicky Jackson (BBSRC for Bioenergy)
Merlin Goldman (TSB)
Colin Miles (BBSRC, for Industrial Biotechnology) •
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Funding organisation: Technology Strategy Board
- TSB
Funding organisation: Biotechnology and
Biological Sciences Research Council - BBSRC
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Postal address: Polaris House, North Star
Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 1UH, UK
Postal address: North Star House, North Star
Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 1UH, UK
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Phone: +44 1793 442738; e-mail:
[email protected]
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Phone: +44 1793 413341; e-mail:
[email protected];
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[email protected]
Graham Mobbs (TSB)
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Funding organisation: Technology Strategy Board
- TSB
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Postal address: North Star House, North Star
Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire, SN2 1UH, UK
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Phone: +44 1793 442763; e-mail:
[email protected]
Neil Bateman (EPSRC)
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Funding organisation: Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council - EPSRC
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Postal address: Polaris House, North Star
Avenue, Swindon, Wiltshire SN2 1ET, UK
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Phone: +44 1793 444496; e-mail:
[email protected]
Ewa Bloch
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National Contact Point, Technology Strategy
Board - TSB
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Phone: +44 (0) 777 137 2409; email:
[email protected]