GRACE – Growing Advanced Industrial Crops on marginal lands for Biorefineries – submitted in response to the call “BBI 2016.D2 – Improvement and adaptation of industrial crop varieties and novel sources of biomass to diversity biomass feedstock for biorefineries” is a CBE JU project that aims to optimize various miscanthus and hemp value chains.
Project objectives:
- Exploring the potential of miscanthus and hemp crops as a source of biomass for the bioeconomy. Both miscanthus and hemp are relatively untapped but offer an attractive business opportunity for farmers and industry. When grown on marginal, contaminated, or unused/abandoned land, impacts on food security can be minimized and the potential introduction of pollutants into the food chain can be prevented;
- To demonstrate and optimize the techno-economic feasibility and environmental sustainability of ten value chains based on miscanthus and hemp using marginal, contaminated and unused land on an industrial scale;
- Identify hemp varieties suitable for marginal lands and commercial miscanthus varieties available by the end of the project with different economically viable end uses creating a market push for the growth of the bioeconomy.
Details
| Start date | June 01, 2017 |
| Duration | 60 months |
| Number of partners | 22; University of Hohenheim (DE), Wageningen University (NL), INRA (FR), Aberythwyth University (UK), Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (IT), University of Zagreb (HR), Novamont (IT), Mogu (IT), AVA Biochem (CH), Addiplast (FR), INA (HR), INA-Industrial Nafte (HR), Indena (IT), Consorzio di Bonifica di Piacenza (IT), Kuhn Uwe (DE), Gruppo Fibranova (IT), Miscanthusgroep (NL), Terravesta (UK), Vandinter-Semo (NL), NovaBiom (FR), Johannes Furtlehner (AT), SPRING (IT). |
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The GRACE project has received funding from the Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 745012.
