Bioresource Processing Alliance (BPA)

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DEADLINE REMINDER!  Our final funding round for for 2024 closes IN TWO DAYS’ TIME, so make sure you have your applications ready to submit by midnight on Thursday, 7 November. We provide regular funding for R&D to help support innovative businesses creating value from by-products of primary industry processing.  This includes raw materials derived from forestry, marine, agricultural, horticultural, animal and microbiological streams. If you have a great project that will create value from a secondary bioresource, then we'd love to hear from you! Contact Nicky for more information, or check out our website where you'll find how to work with our partners to submit your application, as well as the support we offer students: https://lnkd.in/gQvz_yRi   Make sure you get your applications in! We look forward to hearing from you!

Only two weeks to go until our final funding round for 2024 closes, so make sure you have your applications ready to submit by midnight on Thursday 7 November. We provide regular funding for R&D to help support innovative businesses creating value from by-products of primary industry processing. This includes raw materials derived from forestry, marine, agricultural, horticultural, animal and microbiological streams. If you have a great project that will create value from a secondary bioresource, then we'd love to hear from you! Contact Nicky Solomon for more information, or check out our website where you'll find how to work with our partners to submit your application, as well as the support we offer students: https://lnkd.in/ghZxWF-n

Innovation in action right here! The BPA proudly supporting smarter sustainable solutions like this one!

🌟 BPA Summer Internship Funding Success 🌟 We’re excited to announce that six applications for BPA-funded summer internships have been approved! These projects span a range of innovative initiatives, including: -Developing fibres from agricultural waste for sustainable packaging and jewellery. -Creating a practical databank of information on waste streams from farms. -Exploring jewellery creation using natural pigments from byproducts like grape marc and pine needles. -Investigating the impacts of adding value to agricultural and horticultural waste streams. -Studying the potential of  Black Soldier Fly larvae to upcycle low-value meat waste. -Developing new biomaterials from dairy waste using innovative processes. 📅 We’ll now be reviewing summer internship applications annually, with the next round of funding for internships to be held in September 2025. 

We welcome biochemist Max Kennedy as our new Board Chair at the BPA, succeeding long-time former Chair Garth Carnaby who announced his retirement last month. In addition, we welcome Marc Gaugler from Scion as a new Board member -- Marc was previously a member of our Science Leadership Group (SLG). Replacing him on the SLG is @ChristopheCollet, a Senior Industrial Biotechnologist at Scion, based in Rotorua. You can read more about our new appointments and our other Board and SLG members on our website: https://lnkd.in/gA_7KbMS

Big shout-out to Carla Cronje and all of the great work that she and the Scion team do!

Good luck to all the finalists!

Our long-standing Board chair, wool industry expert and industrial technologist Garth Carnaby, has retired from his role with the BPA, and we thank him for his many years of service. The legacy that the BPA has established since its inception more than a decade ago is due to Garth’s guidance and foresight, and its value is acknowledged by a wealth of businesses and researchers in primary industry throughout the country. We wish Garth all the best for his retirement, and welcome biochemical engineer and BPA board member Dr Max Kennedy as our new Board chair. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gZFKw4JR

 Reminder: Summer Internship Funding Round Closes on 27 September! Just a reminder that applications for BPA's special summer internship funding round closes at midnight on Friday, 27 September! Don't miss this opportunity to provide a student with valuable experience, supported by a $14,000 stipend to carry out an R&D project over the summer, supervised by a BPA partner. Please note, we will not be taking applications for summer internships in our November funding round this year. So, make sure to get your application in by midnight on Friday, 27 September. For more information and to apply, visit: https://lnkd.in/gRc6VdCF