European Biosolutions Coalition

🌱 Great first step for biosolutions in 2025: Commission launches a new Biotech and Biomanufacturing Hub Yesterday, the hub was officially launched by the European Commission with a specific goal in mind: to support companies, particularly SMEs, in bringing innovative biotechnology products to the European market. ⚙️ Today, the path from innovation to market is gruesome, confusing and for many SMEs, borderline impossible. Yet, as the Commission points out, biotechnology is still one of the fastest growing innovative industries in the EU with a strong ability bring sustainability ♻️, resilience 💪 and competitiveness to the European continent 📈. We certainly know this to be true regarding biosolutions. 📜 In 2024, the Commission announced a strategy to boost biotechnology and biomanufacturing in Europe, and this is an important next step. Bringing clarification and support to the biosolutions sector is much needed in a sector currently characterized by red tape and regulatory complexity. 💡  “Biotechnology is a key driver of industrial innovation, competitiveness and productivity, while using fewer resources, producing less emissions and generating less waste. The EU is set to create an optimal environment to support its scale-up, ensuring this critical sector thrives for the benefit of our citizens and industries alike. The Hub is a practical tool that will support this” said Stéphane Séjourne, the EVP for Prosperity and Industrial Strategy. 🎉 We welcome the Biotech and Biomanufacturing Hub as the first, tangible step in advancing biosolutions, that will be crucial for Europe’s future. The EU is now actively beginning to build a platform for biosolutions as a key driver of our sustaianbility, resilience and competitiveness.

Today, we’ve got exciting news to share! 🙌   On the 13th of May, we’re doing it again. Last year, we were in Brussels to host the biosolutions event of 2024, and we’re repeating the success in 2025. Let us introduce to you: High-Level European Conference on Biosolutions! 🌿✨   We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Now is a crucial time for biosolutions on the European agenda. That is why we are pleased to host our second ever biosolutions conference, bringing together actors from the entire European biosolutions industry and EU stakeholders – and this year we go even bigger. 🚀   The theme of the Conference is "How will Europe keep pace? Boosting competitiveness with biosolutions". With this theme we aim to bring together a diverse array of stakeholders to discuss the need for biosolutions in strengthening Europe’s competitiveness to keep up globally, honing in on questions currently central to Europe, even more so in light of the Draghi report. 🇪🇺   At the conference, you’ll meet representatives from all 11 partner countries of the European Biosolutions Coalition, the upcoming Danish Presidency, MEPs, companies and knowledge partners will be in attendance. Jacki Davis will moderate the event and various European biosolutions companies will showcase their innovative biosolutions for participants to experience firsthand. 💡🌱   The event is by invitation only. But fear not, if you’re interested, you can register your interest on our website right here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dSqsjFy9   We can’t wait to welcome you all to the biosolutions event of 2025! 🌟

🌟 THE NORTH STAR OF THE NEW COMMISSION ✨   In her speech at the World Economic Forum 🌍, President von der Leyen pointed out that the world’s major economies are currently vying for new opportunities as the world is changing. The rising tide of global trade is no longer a reliable driver of growth on its own. She put it bluntly: Europe must shift gears ⚙️   With these trying times, von der Leyen and the Commission is set to announce its proposal for the new EU Competitiveness Compass on the 29th of January to guide Europe’s competitive and economic future. This includes great initiatives: cut red tape ✂️, reduce the innovation gap and increase the efficiency of the capital and investment market 💶   Importantly, the President focused on creating a conducive environment to scale up European businesses’, and specifically SMEs, capacity to build, to produce and innovate in Europe. As von der Leyen stated: “Continental scale is our greatest asset in a world of giants” 🌐🚀   If the new EU Competitiveness Compass is implemented effectively, it could become a game-changer for Europe's biosolutions sector. Addressing these issues can create a favorable environment for SMEs and European businesses, which will, in turn, unlock the transformative potential of biosolutions to tackle climate challenges, boost resilience, and drive sustainable growth ♻️   These issues are all well-known within the biosolutions sector, and if we do manage to solve them, we can greatly strengthen Europe’s sustainability, resilience and competitiveness. Therefore, we welcome the adoption of this new North Star as a guiding principle for Europe’s competitive future 💫

🌱 It all starts with biosolutions 🌍 Well, at least 2025 did. We are happy to share some great news: 📜 Alongside 19 other industry associations and organisations, we co-signed a letter to President von der Leyen’s cabinet, emphasizing the importance of ensuring a cross-sectoral scope for the Biotech Act. 💬 The response was encouraging. While we feared a narrow, pharmaceutical-only oriented Biotech Act, we were reassured that the Commission’s commitment, as was outlined in their Political Guidelines, still seeks to fully embrace the entire biotech revolution. We need a bold European Biotech Act in 2025. 🔬 They acknowledge what the biosolutions sector have known for long: biotechnologies can help modernise the European economy in a wide variety of areas. 💡 For that to happen, and for us to fully unleash the potential of biotech and biomanufacturing in Europe, we need to create conditions that stimulate biosolutions in Europe. They simply are that important. That’s why we’re glad to see the Commission reaffirm their stance in support of a cross-sectoral Biotech Act. ✅ 📆 With many initiatives ahead, and among them most notably the Biotech Act, we now have further reason to hope that biosolutions in Europe will thrive. 💪 In the meantime, we’ll keep saying it louder: we need a bold Biotech Act!

Why shouldn’t 2025 be the year of biosolutions? 🌍🤔 We know by now that 2025 will be a crucial time for biosolutions, and in fact, at the Coalition, we believe that 2025 can be the year of biosolutions. Let’s take a look at what the year has in store. While you can be sure that we’re bringing you much more information shortly, we’re already looking forward to our European High-Level Conference on Biosolutions on the 13th of May. 📅✨ Our preparations are well underway, and we can’t wait to show you everything we’ve got going on. It’ll be the biosolutions event of the calendar year! 🌱 In the meantime, the sector is facing important developments. With the new Commission in place, 2025 will also be the year the European Biotech Act will be presented. 📜 This was first promised in President von der Leyen’s Political Guidelines last year, where the Commission committed themselves to make the most of the biotech revolution. And bringing biosolutions faster to the European market will be crucial to using the full potential this revolution has to offer. 🚀 Implementing a bold Biotech Act is of utmost importance, but it doesn’t stand alone. The Commission is currently revising the Bioeconomy Strategy and conducting studies that will support the broader biotech sector, including bio-based products and biosolutions. Overall, 2025 can be an absolutely crucial year for advancing biosolutions and their unfathomably large potential. But there is still much left to achieve. So, for 2025, we remain hopeful that biosolutions can be advanced in Europe. Yet we also recommit ourselves to our efforts, as the work is far from done. Let’s make 2025 the year of biosolutions! 🤝🌿

Building the future with fermentation 🦠 🌱 Fermentation is a word that might conjure up images of freshly baked bread 🥖 or a creamy yogurt 🥛🧑🍳 - but did you know it’s much more than that? At its core, fermentation is a natural process where microorganisms like bacteria 🦠 or yeast 🍶 break down carbohydrates, such as starches and sugars, into ethanol or CO₂. For thousands of years, this process has been pivotal to human development, enabling us to preserve food🧀, create delicious staples like bread and yogurt, and even extend the shelf life of meats and fish 🐟 But fermentation is not just a relic of our past; it’s a cornerstone of our future 🌍✨ Advances in biotechnology, including precision fermentation, are unlocking new ways to tackle modern challenges. Today, we can leverage fermentation and precision fermentation to produce more sustainable food on less land, reduce waste ♻️, enhance nutritional value 🌱, and ensure food security for a growing global population 👩👩👦👦 You can read more about the tools needed to create a bio-based future in our glossary: https://lnkd.in/dkeyWCG8 🌿💡

AMSilk GmbH | Biotech Materials is a driving force in making Europe’s biorevolution happen! 🚀🌍   🧵 Let us introduce to you the great people over at AMSilk GmbH | Biotech Materials from Germany. We think they're pretty important. And they've recognized something: that our materials sector is an enormous polluter, contributing to 23% of global emissions. ⚠️   Looking to nature for better alternatives can help. And fortunately for us, they already have the biotechnological key: spider silk. 🕷️🔑   Yes, you heard right. Spider silk. AMSilk can develop functional proteins that can be turned into strong and sustainable silk in replacement of chemical products or products with animal origins. 🌟 🧵 This silk is: ✅ Vegan 🌿 ✅ Demonstrably biodegradable ♻️ ✅ Made solely from renewable resources ⚡   The spider silk is widely applicable, ranging from super-fine yarn and silk-like fabrics 🧶 to super-resistant yarns for advanced materials. 🔧 In fact, it can be tailored to specific market or product requirements while maintaining its sustainable edge.   Their materials are already available in commercial products, yet scaling up commercialization to the industrial level poses significant challenges. And this disadvantage is exacerbated due to US competition with strong government support for biofabrication. 🏭   There is still time to make this right and to help AMSilk help us. Let’s boost biotechnology in Europe with a bold Biotech Act in 2025.   Wanna learn more about AMSilk or Europe’s biorevolution? 📖 You can download our case catalogue on our website here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dH6GtTET

Denmark is creating the future biosolutions engineers🔬🌱 Københavns Universitet - University of Copenhagen, Denmark offers a unique Master of Science (MSc) in Biosolutions in Campus Kalundborg, Denmark’s new biotechnology powerhouse, close to world-leading biosolutions companies like Novonesis and many others🌱 The students will become experts in new sustainable biological production of foods, biomaterials, biologicals, and environmental technologies💡 A MSc in Biosolutions opening a door to a rich pool of professional job opportunities either in Denmark or internationally🌎 Next application round, for study start September 2025🔬 🌎Non-EU-Citizens: Deadline: 15 January 2025 🇪🇺EU-Citizens: Deadline: 1 March 2025 This video shows the first team of students👩🎓 https://lnkd.in/dqZAKPAS

Presenting the frontrunners of the biorevolution: Biosphere S.r.l🌱   Innovative biosolutions and the companies who produce them can make Europe's biorevolution happen. And today we zoom in on one of those companies – BioSphere💡   Biosphere is a key player in the Italian industrial biotechnology sector and works as a technology platform, delivering deep tech along with research-based scaling facilities in which other companies can improve and test their products🔬   Biosphere is also known for its development of tailor-made enzymes and microorganisms for a variety of market sectors. For example, Biosphere develops optimised microbial strains that can improve a plant’s nutrient uptake and protect against diseases🌾The company is also involved with the creation of cosmetic💄, nutraceutical and food ingredients that have enhanced properties thanks to the fermentation processes🍴   Turning today’s chemical industry into a biobased one requires strong collaboration between scientists and industry. Biosphere is a key facilitator in this collaboration, helping new and innovative biosolutions to go from idea to reality🚀   But high-quality research calls for high funding. First and foremost, there is a big need for funding in high-quality research, ensuring high level training for graduates in several different fields. Funding is also crucial in supporting the development of existing scale-up facilities, to appropriately cover the gap between ideas and industrial applications💶   Let’s accelerate the biorevolution with a bold Biotech Act!🌱 You can find our case catalogue here: https://lnkd.in/dH6GtTET

🌟 Making Europe´s biorevolution happen with BRAIN Biotech AG🌍 At BRAIN Biotech Group, they don't just talk about biorevolution – they drive it forward. And they do so with #passion: passion for their customers and great respect for the incredible diversity of nature, which is always a role model for them. With specialty #enzymes, high-performance #productionstrains and optimized #bioprocesses for the industry-scale production of enzymes and other proteins, the BRAIN Biotech Group is contributing to a more sustainable industry and a #biobasedFuture. #Biorevolution #Microorganisms #PrecisionFermentation #Biomanufacturing