Bio-Based Industries

Joint Undertaking (BBI JU)

Elisa TESSELLI

Project Manager BBI JU

BBI JU: giornata nazionale di lancio del bando 2016

Roma 1 April 2016

• The EU bioeconomy vs. Bio-Based

Industries (BBI)

• BBI Joint Undertaking

• Implementation

• BBI JU opportunities: the 2016 Call for

Proposals

• Why & how to participate?

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The bioeconomy

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Those parts of the economy that use renewable

biological resources from LAND and SEA…

… to produce FOOD, BIO-BASED

PRODUCTS, MATERIALS and ENERGY.

(22 million jobs (10% of EU employment);

annual turnover: € 2 trillion)

The EU bioeconomy

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Those parts of the economy that use renewable

biological resources from LAND and SEA…

… to produce FOOD, BIO-BASED

PRODUCTS, MATERIALS and ENERGY.

(22 million jobs - 10% of EU employment;

annual turnover: € 2 trillion)

Bio-Based Industries (BBI)?

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BBI and their value chains are facing complex and

substantial technological and innovation challenges

Biomass and waste Biorefineries Fuel

Chemicals and materials

Feed & food ingredients

Bio-Based Industries (BBI)?

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Biomass and waste Biorefineries Fuel

Chemicals and materials

Feed & food ingredients

BBI and their value chains are facing complex and

substantial technological and innovation challenges

Why BBI JU?

European public-private partnership needed to de-risk, organize & reach critical mass of emerging BBI

Eight reasons for BBI JU:

1. Pool resources from public & private sectors, to create a common platform

2. Joint approach, across sectors and geographies

3. Reach critical mass in a focused and coherent way

4. Joint financial commitment and a jointly defined programme

5. Enable to leverage additional investments.

6. Allow industry to get organized along bioeconomy value chains

7. Clear framework that brings clarity for activities & investments

8. Long term stability and predictability

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BBI Joint Undertaking (BBI JU)?

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• Public Private Partnership

(PPP) developing

sustainable and

competitive bio-based

industries in Europe

• Partners:

- European Union (via

EC)

- Bio-based Industries

Consortium (BIC) www.bbi-europe.eu

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BBI JU Governance

BBI JU budget

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TOTAL

€ 3705 M

(about 75%

from BIC)

€ 975 M

Call for Proposals

(in cash and in kind)

€ 975 M

Additional

Investments

€ 1755 M

+ =

BBI JU objectives

Develop sustainable and competitive bio-based industries in Europe, based on advanced biorefineries that source their biomass sustainably by:

1. Demonstrating new technologies using European biomasses: new chemical building blocks, new materials, and new consumer products from European biomass;

2. Developing business models integrating economic actors along the value chain

3. Setting-up flagship biorefinery plants deploying technologies & business models

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BBI JU implementation (1/2)

A structured approach(1) via 5 Value Chains (VC)...

– VC 1: From lignocellulosic feedstock to advanced

biofuels, bio-based chemicals & biomaterials

– VC 2: Next generation forest-based value chains

– VC 3: Next generation agro-based value chains

– VC 4: New value chains from (organic) waste

– VC 5: Integrated energy, pulp and chemicals

biorefineries

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(1) Based on SIRA (Strategic Innovation & Research Agenda); currently under revision to facilitate the participation of the aquaculture / fisheries sector, and to promote integration across VCs

BBI JU implementation (2/2)

...implemented through annual Calls for

Proposals ( H2020: multi-annual)

– Most Horizon 2020 rules apply (e.g. Topic text

structure; 3 main evaluation criteria:

excellence, impact, implementation;...)

– 3 types of ‘Actions’:

• Coordination & Support Actions (CSA)

• Research & Innovation Actions (RIA)

• Innovation Actions (IA): Demonstration (DEMO)

and Flagship projects (= closer to market)

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Actions funded by BBI JU

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2.Research & Innovation Actions (RIA, TRL 4-5)

1. Innovation Actions (IA), consisting of:

- Flagship projects (TRL 8)

- DEMO projects (TRL 6-7)

3. Coordination & Support actions (CSA) cross-sectorial challenges, Initiatives supporting VCs, Networking…

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TRL BBI JU organizes call to fund R&I projects from TRL 4 to 8

BBI JU ‘Actions’

Action TRL (1) Duration BBI JU funding %

CSA n/a 1-3y 100%(2)

RIA 4-5 Up to 4y

IA-DEMO 6-7 4-5y 70%(3)

IA-Flagship 8

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(1) TRL = Technology Readiness Level (value 1-9; higher TRL = closer to

market)

(2) However: de facto no (0%) BBI JU funding for large enterprises

(3) Non-profit beneficiaries / linked third parties may be reimbursed at

100%

Budget distribution per type of actions

Action Share of overall budget

RIA 30%

Demo 30%

Flagship 34,75%

CSA 3,25%

SIRA: programme-level

(full duration of BBI JU, total budget € 3.8 billion)

Participation & funding rates

per action

Participant RIA IA CSA

Large Industries / 70% /

SMEs 100% 70% 100%

Universities 100% 100% 100%

RTOs – non profit, legal entities 100% 100% 100%

BBI JU topic texts

• Similar structure as H2020 topic texts

– Topic title and identifier (e.g. Organic acids from

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) - BBI.VC4.D6-2015);

– Specific Challenge: the problem that needs to be

addressed;

– Scope: the framework within which a solution needs

to be found, including an indication of the budget

size;

– Expected Impact: if the project would reach its

stated objectives: which impacts should it have?

– Type of action

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Eligibility check Evaluation of

proposals Grant

preparation Grant

signature

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Evaluation process

Call closure GA signature

8 months

Evaluation criteria

• 3 main evaluation criteria (= H2020):

–Excellence WHAT?

–Impact SO WHAT?

–Implementation HOW?

• Different subcriteria per main criterion

–All H2020 subcriteria per action are

applicable

–Limited amount of BBI JU-specific subcriteria

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Excellence Impact Quality and efficiency of the

implementation

• Clarity

• Credibility

• Soundness of the

concept

• Quality

• Extent that proposed

work is ambitious, has

innovation potential, and

is beyond the state of

the art

• Coverage of the value

chain

• Expected impacts

• Enhancing innovation

capacity and integration of

new knowledge

• Strengthening the

competitiveness and growth

of companies

• Any other environmental and

socially important impacts

• Effectiveness (including IPR

management) to exploit,

disseminate, communicate

results

• Extent to which consortium

contribution, including

additional investment, will

help maximising the impact

of the action

• Coherence and effectiveness of

the work plan

• Complementarity of the

participants within the

consortium

• Appropriateness of the

management structures and

procedures

• Soundness of the business case

and business plan

• Readiness of the technology for

the implementation of the pilot

phase, demonstration or flagship

Evaluation Criteria (for IA additional specific criteria)

BBI JU-specific SUBcriteria

• Depends per ‘type of action’

– CSA: no BBI-JU specific criteria (= H2020)

– RIA and IA: additional ‘Impact’ subcriterion (“extent to which consortium contribution, including additional investments, will help maximising impact of the action”)

– IA additional evaluation subcriteria • Excellence: “Coverage of the value chain (raw

materials, equipment and technology suppliers and end-users)”

• Implementation: “Soundness of the business case and business plan” and “Readiness of the technology for the implementation of the pilot phase or demonstration”

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IMPACT

Consortium own contribution

Industrial Contribution is crucial

• policy of the BBI JU is to increase and leverage the private

investments, and especially to increase the large

industry’s own contribution to the project

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3 types of own contribution

• In kind:

– No funding for large enterprises : 100% of their eligible

costs is own contribution – industry commitment

– RIA and CSA: 100% reimbursement rate. They can request

less → visible in Part A (budget)

• In cash: cash contribution from one partner to another

• Additional investments

Additional Investments

Definition

Activities outside the work plan of the BBI JU contributing to the

objectives of the BBI Initiative (investments at the implementation or

exploitation phase infrastructure, durable equipment,…)

At the BBI JU programme level: industry via BIC shall provide at

least € 1 755 million in additional activities (*)

At the proposal/project level:

• No obligation, but in line with BBI JU policy (+)

• Applicants: “invited” to include costs linked to additional

investments and provide an explanation in Part B of the

proposal, section Impact

• Should not be included in Part A of the proposal (budget)

24 (*) COUNCIL REGULATION (EU) No 560/2014 of 6 May 2014 establishing the BBI JU.

2014- 2015 Calls

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RIA-DEMO-

CSA

Call 2015.2

Flagship

Call 2015.1

Call publication

date 09-07-2014 19-05-2015 25-08-2015

Deadline for

proposals

submission

15-10-2014 15-09-2015 03-12-2015

Estimated BBI JU

Funding € 50 million € 100 million € 106 million

No. of topics 16 3 19

RIA-DEMO-

Flagship

Call 2014

0

5

10

15

20

25

1 2

Topics

0

20

40

60

80

100

1 2

Proposals

0.00

0.50

1.00

1.50

2.00

2.50

3.00

3.50

4.00

1 2

Prop./Topic

Topics Proposals Prop/Top Topics Proposals Prop/Top

FLAG 1 4 4 3 9 3

DEMO 5 14 2,8 7 24 3,43

RIA 10 20 2 10 43 4,3

CSA 2 6 3

Total 16 38 2,38 22 82 3,73

Call 2014 Call 2015

Call 2015 vs Call 2014 Increased mobilization

2014 2015 2014 2015 2014 2015

X 2 > 3

BBI JU Call 2016 (1/3)

• Timing

– Dec 2015: topics published on BBI JU website

– Apr 2016:

• Opening of Call (tentative: 18 Apr)

• Info day Brussels (21 Apr)

– Sep 2016: Call closure (tentative: 15 Sep)

– Feb 2017: communication of evaluation results

• Topics & total budget

– 26 topics

– € 161,15 million total budget www.bbi-europe.eu

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BBI JU Call 2016 (2/3)

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12 RIA

50 million

1 Flagship(1)

40 million

2016 Annual Work Plan now published on www.bbi-europe.eu

• Publication envisaged: 18-04-2016

• Deadline envisaged: 15-09-2016

• No. of topics: 26

• Estimated BBI JU Funding: €161.15 million

9 DEMO

67.65 m

4 CSA

3.5 m

(1) Call 2016: hearings for all Flagship proposals

BBI JU Call 2016 (3/3)

• Strategic orientations Call 2016

– Topics not linked to specific (existing) VCs

– Focus on new products and applications

– New feedstock: marine biomass, etc.

• In proposals, please clearly describe:

– The consortium’s own contribution (in kind, in cash, and - if relevant - additional investments)

– Business case and business plan (IA)

– Technological maturity / current TRL level (especially relevant for IAs)

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AWP 2016 Feedstock priority

AWP 2016 Process priority

AWP 2016 Products & Markets

priority

CSA topics in AWP 2016

1. A roadmap for the chemical industry to a bioeconomy

– Towards a higher bio-based portfolio and enjoy the benefits of a

bioeconomy

2. Bioeconomy related open access research infrastructure and assessing

its capabilities for industry driven development projects

– Improve access, interconnect into an EU-wide infrastructure

– Expand capabilities to meet future needs

3. Open-innovation Platform strengthening cooperation and joint

development of bio-based industries and downstream sectors

– Better understand market and societal needs

– Identify new bio-based solutions to meet needs and utilise

opportunities

4. Clustering and networking for new value chains

– Cross sectorial, value chains and geographical boundaries

Why participate?

• Value Chain (know-how & collaboration)

– Expertise in biomass, biorefineries, bio-

products and -services?

– Opportunities to collaborate with partners

you’d otherwise seldom/never work with

• From TRL 3 to 8

– R&D

– ‘Close(r) to market’ product or service

• Contribute to a post-petroleum society

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How to participate? (1/3)

• BBI JU website

– http://www.bbi-europe.eu/participate/calls-

proposals

• Topic info

• After publication of call (mid-Apr 2016): FAQ

and guide for applicants

– Subscribe to the BBI JU partnering platform:

http://www.bbi-europe.eu/participate/bbi-

partnering-platform

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How to participate? (2/3)

• Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC)

– (evaluate to) become a member of BIC...

• Full members (industry)

• Associate members (university, RTO,...)

– ...and participate in BIC events, topic writing,

co-financing searches,...

– http://biconsortium.eu/join-us

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How to participate? (3/3)

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• Participant Portal – Search for BBI JU (after Call publication) and other

funding opportunities: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/opportunities/index.html

– H2020 online manual: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/docs/h2020-funding-guide/grants/from-evaluation-to-grant-signature_en.htm

Do you have BBI expertise?

• Please consider registering as an expert on the Participant Portal

– http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/desktop/en/experts/index.html

– BBI = broad field => different expertise needed!

– As a BBI JU evaluator or reviewer, you’ll gain valuable BBI JU / H2020 insights...

• Better evaluators =

– Best proposals are selected

– BBI JU’s objectives are reached

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