INTER-PRO-UMCS

Programme description

The objectives of the proposed JTI on bio-based industries are to:

• contribute to develop a more resource efficient and sustainable low carbon economy and increase economic growth and employment, particularly in rural areas, by developing sustainable and competitive bio based industries in Europe based on advanced biorefineries that source their biomass sustainably, and in particular to:
• demonstrate technologies that enable new chemical building blocks, new materials, and new consumer products from European biomass which replace the need for fossil based inputs;
• develop business models that integrate economic actors along the whole value chain from supply of biomass to biorefinery plants to consumers of bio based materials, chemicals and fuels, including via the creation of new cross sector interconnections and support to cross industry clusters; and
• set up flagship biorefinery plants that deploy the technologies and business models for bio based materials, chemicals and fuels and demonstrate cost and performance improvements to levels that are competitive with fossil based alternatives.

There are 4 strategic orientations ( 16 topics: 5 RIAs, 4 CSAs, 4 DEMOs, 3 FLAGs. ):

• Feedstock,
• Process,
• Products,
• and Market uptake.

Project lifecycle (source: Call booklet):

Source: www.bbi-europe.eu

Deadline

Programme

Horizon 2020

Timeline

• Publication of topic texts (via the Annual Work Plan 2020): December 2019.
• Call opening: 15 April 2020.
• Call closure: 3 September 2020, 17:00 CET.
• Proposal evaluations (indicative): October – November 2020.
• Results sent to applicants (indicative): December 2020 – January 2021.

Research discipline

Exact and environmental sciences

Amount of contribution

Types of eligible costs

As a basic rule, to be eligible, costs must be:
 Actual and incurred by the beneficiary
 Incurred during the project duration (except for costs of the final report)
 Indicated in the estimated budget in Annex 2 (budget of the action)
 Incurred in connection with the action as described in Annex 1 (proposal description)
 Reasonable and justified, and compliant with the principle of sound financial management
 Identifiable and verifiable, in particular recorded in the beneficiary’s account (according to
accounting standards of the beneficiary’s country and to usual cost accounting practices).
Five cost categories are considered:
A. Direct personnel costs
B. Direct costs of subcontracting
C. Costs of providing financial support to third parties
D. Other direct costs
 D.1 Travel costs and related subsistence allowances
 D.2 Depreciation costs of equipment, infrastructure and assets or costs of renting and
leasing equipment, infrastructure and assets (see also Q 3.1.6)
 D.3 Costs of other goods and services (see also Q 3.1.7)
 D.4 Capitalised and operating costs of large research infrastructure (see also Q 3.1.8)
E. Indirect costs

Update date

Contact

Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU):
e-mail: info@bbi.europa.eu

International Cooperation Center:
phone: 81 537 54 58/54 98
e-mail: cwm@umcs.pl