Leading pioneers and business executives will provide us an overview of changes and trends in bioeconomy to unravel the opportunities, solutions and drivers in developing a sustainable bioeconomy 2.0. The Circular Bioeconomy offers many approaches to preserving the climate and the environment for future generations.
TUESDAY JUNE 25TH |
Bioeconomy In Action – how do we develop a circular bioeconomy, supporting an overall sustainable development? |
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11.00 | Registration Open |
12.00 – 12.30 | Lunch Buffet |
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14.15 | Coffee |
| Bioeconomy At Work – How To Operate The Economic Potentials In Using Renewable Biological Resources? Four Pioneers Operating Bioeconomy Share Their Experiences.
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| 16.00 | Visits at Aarhus University, Foulum Pilot Plants |
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| 17.00 | Official inauguration of Aarhus University's new demonstratio scale GREEN BIOREFINERY |
| 18.00 | Return to Viborg |
| 19.15 | DINNER and networking at Nytorv Street Food, Viborg Snapsting |
A crucial element in the further development of bioeconomy is the increasing demand for protein ingredients. Not only as feed for animals, but also as food. However, we need to grow or extract this protein in a way, that reduces the environmental impact of protein production.
WEDNESDAY JUNE 26TH |
BIOECONOMY IN ACTION – ACROSS EUROPE, WE NEED TO IMPROVE THE MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESSOURCES AND OPEN NEW AND DIVERSIFIED MARKETS IN FOOD, FEED, BIO-BASED PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND BIOENERGY. |
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| 08.00 | Registration open |
08.30-9.00 | Coffee |
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10.00 | Coffee |
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| 12.00 | What are the need for future education in bioeconomy? An interactive session with the ABBEE (Accellerating the transistion towards the Bio-Based Economy via Education) project coordinator Gerlinde van Vilsteren, Wageningen University |
| 12.15 | Lunch |
| 13.00-22.00 | Technical Tours
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| 22.00 | Return to Viborg/Foulum |
Insights and outlooks on the development of new protein sources – what are they and how far are we in tapping their potentials? THREE SESSIONS on NEW SOURCES OF PROTEIN elucidating relevant aspects of the new protein sources with a circular perspective on their production- and value chains to map the state of the art and identify knowledge gaps on key topics.
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| 08.30-9.00 | Coffee | ||
| Proteins from green biomass | Proteins from algae | Proteins from mussels, starfish, worms and insects | |
| 09.00 | Bringing protein to the market - the case of alfalfa concentrated extract | Cultivation of microalgae by Malene Fog Lihme Olsen, Senior Specialist, Danish Technological Institute | Opportunities and challenges of producing insects at industrial scale / Lars-Henrik Heckmann, Head of Section, PhD, Danish Technological Institute |
Functional proteins from vegetable and arable crop residues | Production of macroalgae in the open ocean by Urd Grandorf Bak. Research Manager, Ocean Rainforest | Status, challenges and opportunities in the production of mussels and mussel protein in Denmark by Jens Kjerulf, Professor, National Institute for Aquatic Ressources | |
| 10.00 | Green biorefinery technology development, Pilot and demo-scale facilities at Aarhus University | Extraction of protein from macroalgae by Ingrid Undeland, Professor, Biology and Biological Engineering, Food and Nutrition Science, Chalmers | Blue Mussel cleaning and processing by Margrét Geirsdottir, Northlight Seafood |
| The pros and cons of using ensiled grass as the feedstock for green biorefinery by Marketta Rinne, Professor, Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE) | Differences in protein fractionation from aquatic and green biomass by Angelica Tamayo Tenorio, Food Process Engineering, Wageningen University | Processing insects for the production of protein by Dirk Sindermann, Head of Process Technology - Renewables, GEA Group | |
| Mealworm biorefinery and processing for food products Marieke Bruins, Senior Scientist, Wageningen Food and Biobased Research | |||
| 11.00-12.00 | Poster session | ||
| 12.00 | Lunch | ||
| 13.00 | Quality requirements and nutritional value of protein products for feed from biorefined green biomass | Microalgae in fish feed by Mette Sørensen, Professor, Faculty of Bioscience and Aquaculture, Nord University | Can we turn decomposing seaweed into valuable worm protein for fish feed? by Martin Holmstrup, Professor, Soil Fauna, Ecology and Ecotoxicology, Aarhus University |
Improved quality of soluble proteins from green biomass
| Biorefining of micro- and macroalgae | Mussels, starfish and insects as feed protein sources by Jan Værum Nørgaard, Assoc. Prof., Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Aarhus University |
| 14.00 | System analysis of green biorefinery by Morten Birkved, Professor MSO, University of Southern Denmark, Life Cycle Engineering |
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| Environmental impact of seaweed cultivation by Göran Nylund, University of Gothenburg | |
Production of mussels as a tool to reduce eutrophication | |
| 15.00-15.10 | Concluding remarks and Goodbye |
