March 17th | RAIZ – Forest and Paper Research Institute, Aveiro
ANI, in partnership with RAIZ – Instituto de Investigação da Floresta e do Papel (Forest and Paper Research Institute), is organizing an Information Session on the 2025 Tender under the Circular Bio-based Europe Partnership (CBE JU) on March 17. The event will have the collaboration of the Planning, Policy and General Administration Office (GPP) and the National Institute for Agricultural and Veterinary Research (INIAV), which, like ANI, represent Portugal in the States Representative Group (SRG) of the CBE JU.
CBE JU, one of the 9 institutionalized partnerships of Horizon Europe (HE), aims to fund projects that promote circular and competitive bio-industries in Europe. This program has an overall budget of around 2 billion euros from the European Union (through Horizon Europe Cluster6) and the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC).
A sessão contará com a presença de Oliver Zobell (CBE JU Programme Officer & Call Coordinator), que apresentará as novidades e oportunidades de financiamento para 2025, as condições de participação e avaliação, bem como orientações para a preparação de uma proposta bem-sucedida, com base em experiências anteriores. Samuele Ambrosetti (BIC Programming & Innovation Manager) também estará presente para explorar o contexto e objetivos dos tópicos propostos para o concurso de 2025. Além disso, o evento incluirá uma visita técnica ao RAIZ, membro associado do BIC, e será uma oportunidade para o networking entre stakeholders nacionais.
The event is aimed at companies and organizations along the bio-based value chains, including SMEs, universities, research centers and collaborative laboratories.
View the agenda here.
Participation is free, but registration is required. The event will be in English.
Registration here.
The HORIZON-JU-CBE-2025 Call, with 13 topics and an overall budget of 165 M€, will be open between April 4 and September 17, 2025. Applications can be submitted on the Funding & Tenders Portal from April 4. An Info Day & Brokerage Event will be organized in Brussels on April 3, in a hybrid format, with the possibility to ask questions and interact with other potential applicants on the CBE JU networking platform.
Portugal, which has enjoyed growing success under the Horizon 2020 BBI JU, has already raised around €13.5 million from the 23 projects selected for funding in the 3 CBE JU calls launched under Horizon Europe (2022-2024).
Among the 42 national participants in the CBE JU projects, we highlight two entities – one academic (IST-ID) and one business (A4F ALGAFUEL SA) – both with two participations, one of them as coordinator. We also highlight MC SONAE, which is part of the 1st Flagship with Portuguese involvement, as well as the Food4Sustainability Collaborative Laboratories. and GreenCoLAB, whose implementation of their respective R&I agendas is monitored by ANI.
The Circular Bio-based Europe Partnership (CBE JU) is monitored in Portugal directly by ANI, which is part of the States Representative Group (SRG), a CBE JU advisory body.
