18th of April 2023 from 12:00-15:30 The Auditorium, AU Viborg (Foulum), Blichers Allé 20, 8830 Tjele

The Aarhus University CBIO - Centre for Circular Bioeconomy – has now existed for 5 years. CBIO is today well known and has already created considerable impact on business and society. Come and hear how CBIO has developed through past and new interdisciplinary collaboration projects for the implementation of circular bioeconomy in the green transition. From this year, CBIO has been extended with two new AU members, who will present themselves. The seminar will finish with a reception on the change of head of CBIO from Uffe Jørgensen, AGRO, to Morten Ambye-Jensen, BCE

PROGRAM

12.00 – 12.30 Lunch
12.30 – 12.40 Welcome and introduction to CBIO by Uffe Jørgensen, AGRO, AU
12.40 – 13.00 Commercial development of green and blue biorefining by Steen Bitsch, Vestjyllands Andel

13:00 – 14.30 Presentation of selected CBIO key projects:
• Biomass from peatlands – a trade-off? Wet Horizons by Claudia Nielsen, AGRO
• Grass-based feeding strategies for organic pigs by Lene Stødkilde-Jørgensen, ANIVET, AU
• Hydrothermal liquefaction – a multi-tool technology in the green transition by Patrick Biller, BCE

• Coffee break (10 min)

• Emission Capture and Utilisation – The Blue Biomass in the Circular Bioeconomy by Annette Bruhn, ECOS
• Business, citizens and consumers – perspectives on circular bioeconomy by Marija Banovic, MAPP Centre
• How can genetics contribute to the circular bioeconomy? by Mogens Sandø Lund, QGG
• Biorefining for food quality – past, present and future by Trine Kastrup Dalsgaard, FOOD

14.30 – 15.30 Reception – new head of CBIO: Morten Ambye-Jensen, BCE

Participation is free of charge but registration is necessary on: https://events.au.dk/cbio. Deadline is the 13th of April 2023

Download the program here