Alliance for Biosolutions

🌍✨ Towards a sustainable future with solutions from nature! ✨🌱   Yesterday marked an incredible milestone as we hosted the first ever Biosolutions High Level Summit at the old Danish Stock Exchange (Børsen) together with our collaborators at Novo Nordisk Foundation and DI Bio. Together with researchers, investors, leading companies, authorities and a series of innovative startups we gained amazing insights into the biosolutions sector and touched upon some of the roadblocks we need to address in order to activate biosolutions further to accelerate the green transition🌱 With the summit we aim to create a recurring platform for the entire sector to convene, share knowledge, and form partnerships as we believe in cross sectoral partnerships going forward! A heartfelt thank you to more than 130 participants for engaging with us and contributing to an amazing and inspiring afternoon 🙌 A special thanks to the Danish Minister for Industry, Business, and Financial Affairs Morten Bødskov, the Danish Minister for Food & Agri, Jacob Jensen, MP Linea Søgaard-Lidell and MP Ida Auken for leading the ambitions for the sector within the Danish government. And not at least a huge thank you to our keynotes David Zilber and Naila Moloo and the various panelists including Tommy Ahlers, Anders Spohr, Sara Sande, Rasmus Lauridsen, Randi Wahlsten, Tina Sejersgård Fanø, Svend Christensen and Lykke Friis who all contributed to making this day truly exceptional! We are over the moon 🚀🌕

Changing the world through innovative food! 🌍🍽️   Our newest member in Alliance for Biosolutions, Spora CPH, is a multidisciplinary global food research center founded by @Rasmus Munk.   The visionary, innovative and avantegarde mind behind the world-renowned restaurant Alchemist, Rasmus Munk, started Spora in 2023. Spora is a food research center dedicated to “the pursuit of delicious innovation that can positively impact the lives of millions.” It revolves around the idea that deliciousness can lead technology to play an important role in developing nutritious and sustainable practices that people want to eat, while also driving global change. 🍴✨   Spora has gotten off to a strong start, already publishing several scientific articles and engaging in several major projects. 📚🔬   For example, one of their projects is an indulgent alternative to chocolate 🍫 and another is turning the inedible leftovers from pressing rapeseed oil into a new protein-rich food!   To say the least, we are thrilled to have them on board, and we are ready to change the world through biosolutions!🌱🌎   Spora CPH Alchemist Mette Johnsen Rasmus Munk

Will you join us as we explore the future of Biosolutions at Klimafolkemødet?   Once again, we're proud to announce that we will be attending this year's Klimafolkemødet!   🌍 We'll be on “Rød Scene” together with Teknologisk Institut on Friday, August 30th, from 17:00 to 17:45.   Here, you'll have a great opportunity to deep-dive into the fascinating world of biosolutions and meet our talented colleagues in the biosolution sector! 👥   In an almost talkshow format, they will dive into the promising world of biosolutions and the barriers that need to be overcome to realize the great prospects for the future – sustainable production, jobs, export and more 🌱   And perhaps we'll also see – or taste - a specific example of what biosolutions can really do? 🔬   Mie Ole Lauritzen from Food Nation Denmark will moderate this talk and guide the audience through the world of biosolutions! 🎤   Will we see you there? 🤝

Meet Marcela A. Mendoza Suárez and SymbioMatch – one of this year’s top female entrepreneurs 🌟   When Dansk Erhverv celebrated the 2024 edition of "25 Female Entrepreneurs You Should Know" this Monday, Marcela and her company SymbioMatch were recognized 🎉.   Marcela is driven to make a difference 💪 She initially pursued a PhD in Plant Science at Oxford 🎓, but eventually she realized that even the most groundbreaking scientific discoveries would remain just academic articles 📚 if there wasn't a practical way to implement them in society 🌍   This realization led to the founding of SymbioMatch. SymbioMatch is a pioneer in creating customized biological fertilizers 🌱 that optimally match plants, soil, and symbiotic bacteria. These fertilizers are precise, effective, and environmentally friendly 🌿 And in we are more than proud of our partnership with SymbioMatch in our alliance!   With the technology in place, SymbioMatch and Marcela are ready to showcase their amazing fertilizers to the world and unleash the full potentials of biosolutions🌎   If you are as fascinated by SymbioMatch and Marcela's story as we are, there’s an exciting opportunity to meet Marcela when The Root-Benefit hosts the exciting workshop: "Root Beneficial Microbes – Fit for a Changing Agriculture?" under COST Action CA22142 in Évora, Portugal, from September 19th-20th 📅   Marcela will host the talk: “Perception and reality of beneficial interaction networks – indigenous vs. inoculated microbes, evidence and beliefs” 🎤🙌 Évora, Portugal   🗓️ Key Dates: September 19 – September 20, 2024.   For more information follow the link in the comments 👇

From factory floors to viking lore: A day with Alliance for Biosolutions in historical Jelling! 🛠️⚔️   Our Board of Directors met on Thursday in the historic village of Jelling, where the “Jelling Stone” set the stage for a day dedicated to discussing strategic priorities for the coming period.   The day kicked off with a visit to European Protein, led by CEO Jens Legarth, where the board toured the factory and learned about fermented rapeseed that helps improve gut health in animals and can be used to reduce the need for antibiotics in piglets! 🏭🌱 A biosolution with multiple potentials!   As a cultural highlight, the board strolled past the historic Jelling Stone, allowing them to tick it off their bucket list. This was also a perfect setting to discuss important topics amidst the historic burial mounds and Jelling Stones. 🗿📜   A review of the results and activities highlighted that there is much to be proud of: 🎉   • Increased political focus on biosolutions 📈 • Earmarked funds for biosolutions in 2024 (GUDP pool) 💰 • Biosolutions recognized among climate tech solutions for the green transition in the historic Danish political agreement on green transition in the agricultural sector, including a CO2 tax 🌿   However, we also looked ahead to discuss the challenges we still face, including regulatory roadblocks, scale-up challenges, and access to capital, and how best to address them together.   Now, it's time to roll up our sleeves and get back to work! 💪🔧   A big thank you to our dedicated Board of Directors—you are truly making a difference with your efforts! 🙏🌟   Interested in learning more and becoming part of our biosolutions community? Reach out to our chair, Peter Steen Mortensen from Novonesis, or our Managing Director of the Alliance Secretariat, Anne Lerche.

🚀 Back in business and ready for an exciting autumn ahead 🍂 🌿 After a lovely summer break, we are back in business and more than ready to continue to push the #biosolutions agenda forward together with all our brilliant members and collaborators! Here are some upcoming ❌’s for your calendar for the next couple of months: ❌ August 30: Biosolutions event at the “Peoples’ Climate Meeting” (Klimafolkemødet). Meet excellent cases on the potentials within #biosolutions. We are hosting a talk alongside Teknologisk Institut ❌ September 23.-25: Sustainability Summit during the New York Climate week. Dansk Erhverv are among the co-hosts of the summit alongside with Denmark In New York including a roundtable on #biosolutions and a breakfast reception. Please reach out to Anne Lerche for more information📲 ❌ October 2-3: Food Tech event in Herning (DK) and a new “Global Dilemma Conference”. We are hosting a session on “Investment Opportunities in the Food Tech Industry” on October 2end (event language is English) ❌ October 30: Biosolutions High Level summit: For the second time ever we are gathering biosolutions ecosystem partners in Copenhagen including international/EU stakeholders aiming to increase focus on biotech and biosolutions in EU towards the Dansh EU presidency in 2025 ✨ 👋 And then it is a huge pleasure to welcome our new collegaue in our secretariat Kristian Vincent Ancker 👋 We are aslo very happy to announce that we will be back with all our collegaues at the Chamber of Commerce in "Tietgenhus" by mid September. Please feel free to drop by for a chat and ☕ ☕ ☕ ( ↙ photo) Finally, we are eagerly awaiting for end August to see the Danish Government's proposal for the next financial year, and we keep our fingers crossed for governmental support for a national growth strategy for biosolutions 🤞   Don’t hesitate to reach out to Anne Lerche, if you are interested in learning more about Alliance for Biosolutions and how you can become a part of the #biorevolution 

👏🏼YES👏🏼 High ambitions for a bio-revolution in new political guidelines for the next EU term 🌱 The newly re-elected president Ursula von der Leyen states in her political guidelines for the next European Commission 2024-2029 that she wants to "make the most of the biotech revolution" 🚀 - A revolution led by innovative people like all of our brilliant members 💡   We are especially excited for the proposition of a new "European Biotech Act" in 2025 that should make it “easier to bring biotech from the laboratory to factory and then onto the market” 🌱🔬 A tailored regulatory framework for #biosolutions in the EU is an absolute top priority for us. In our opinion there is an urgent need of a SIGNIFICANT paradigm shift towards regulation and legislative framework conditions that prioritize bio-innovation and sustainable solutions based on biotechnology, acknowledging these as fundamental drivers of industrial competitiveness and green transition! Therefore, now is the time for EU to recognize biosolutions, biotech and biomanufacturing as a SEPERATE industry, differentiated from chemical and fossil solutions, and in need of a tailored regulatory policy framework. We are eager to get started and we can’t wait to see what the next term will bring forward for the biosolutions sector - and we will do our best to push and help along the way 🤞🏼   

Biosolutions wage war on climate change: Crushing carbon emissions for a greener future A new article from our most recent edition of our biosolutions bulletin focuses on the role of biosolutions in enabling us all to contribute in the fight against climate change. While each of us contributes only a small amount, the cumulative impact of over eight billion people in the world is substantial. Over the past decades, there has been a gradual shift towards more environmentally friendly and sustainable production methods across various product categories, and biosolutions are part of driving that change.  "By integrating biosolutions into the production process, we reduce carbon emissions, making our choices and actions more sustainable and environmentally friendly," the article reads. Learn about many everyday examples of how biosolutions can help us fight climate change and leave a greener footprint, including: - Biofuels - Green household cleaners - Fresher breads and yoghurts to reduce food waste - Sustainable brewing - Plant-based and advanced proteins - Animal health - Crop protection and plant health Full article here: https://lnkd.in/dZw5548n #biosolutions #climateaction #greentransition #novonesis

🚀 Calling All SMEs within Novel Foods! 🌱   The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has just launched an exciting opportunity for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) to receive valuable advice on navigating the application process to market novel foods in the European Union! 📈 At the Alliance for Biosolutions, we understand the regulatory barriers biosolutions companies face when bringing their products to market.   Initiatives like this are crucial steps in the right direction. We urge all interested SMEs to sign up and help us advance the biosolutions agenda.Let’s keep innovating and improving together! What’s on Offer? EFSA’s Call for Expressions of Interest aims to support SMEs by providing General Pre-submission Advice (GPSA). This initiative is designed to: 🌟 Raise awareness of the application process. ⏩ Speed up the validation of Novel Food applications. 🗓️ Key Dates: Submit Expressions of Interest: June 25 – October 31, 2024 Read more here: https://lnkd.in/dFtTr9u3

🌱 Denmark is leading the way towards a sustainable future as the first country to add A CARBON TAX on the agri sector 🌱 🤝 Yesterday, a so-called "green tripart" consisting of the Danish Governemt and key organisations in Denmark (representing e.g. the agri sector and nature protection organisations) presented their agreement on a longterm model of a structural green transition of the agricultural sector 🐮 🐷 🌾 ✅ POSITIVE ELEMENTS - The agri sector will also receive a carbon tax like other industries and will thus contribute to Denmark's 70 % reduction target - There is a significant focus on nitrogen and removal of "lowland soils" and it is suggested to prioritize significant funds to restoration of more wild nature and biodiversity - Biosolutions are highlighted and recognized as key technologies and part of the solution to deliver on the climate goals 🌎 This is a big win and a point we have made clear, when we where invited to Minister Stephanie Loses offices to give our point of view. -This is a historic agreement and we applaud the Danish Government for leading the way in EU 👏 🌱 Next up is a harmonized EU carbon tax! **** EXAMPLES on how #biosolutions can be part of the green transition of the agricultural sector: ✅ Biofertilizers and biostimulants can increase crop yields i and reduce the use of fossil/chemical plant protection. ✅Feed additives mixed with enzymes or probiotics, makes it possible to use smaller amounts of feed and achieve the same growth. Feed produced locally can also avoid the import of soy and deforestation. ✅Alternative proteins using fermentation plants that occupy less space and provide a high, nutritious yield, freeing up areas for more biodiversity and wild nature. ✅ Better utilization of existing side streams and biomass for materials and bioplastics. Agriculture can be more involved in harvesting and depositing carbon in consumer and construction materials, utilizing the carbon already harvested through existing areas.