30th June 2026 | 11:00–12:15
New bio-based materials are moving fast, but turning promising innovations into real-world products still depends on the right partners, testing routes and validation opportunities. This first Bio-Based Pathways webinar brings together early-stage developments from ECOFUNC and other EU-funded initiatives, with a strong focus on collaboration needs, complementarities and practical next steps. The session is also designed to turn interest into post-event B2B matchmaking meetings.
Why attend
- A single room for collaboration: meet research organizations and industry players actively looking for cooperation in bio-based materials.
- Practical next steps (not just talks): we capture collaboration interests during the session and turn them into post‑event B2B matchmaking meetings
- Access to emerging solutions: hear how new bio-based polymers and compounds can reduce “first‑trial risk” and open pathways to adoption with the right testing and industrial input.
Who should join
This webinar is for anyone working to bring bio-based materials from early development into real products – from those shaping material requirements and applications, to those supplying and formulating materials, processing them into products, and testing performance and sustainability. It is also relevant for actors interested in knowledge exchange, future project collaboration and wider innovation opportunities across the bio-based materials ecosystem.
Agenda
11.00 Welcome and introduction
11.05 Yunquian Wang, CO2BIOCLEAN – Converting waste carbon into Natural Biopolymers.
11.15 Nydia Badillo, HELIAN POLYMERS – Helian Polymers: Nature creates the raw material, we create the perfect blend.
11.25 Izabela Irska, WEST POMERANIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY – Synthesis, structure and properties of furan-based condensation polymers.
11.35 Avinash R. Pai, STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY – Hemp Residues to Sustainable Packaging Materials.
11.45 Assunta Marrochi, THE UNIVERSITÀ DEGLI STUDI DI PERUGIA – Enabling sustainable bio-based polymers from brewers’ spent grain: a green chemistry approach to building blocks.
11.55 Miguel Carmona, UNIVERSITY OF CORDOBA – Disruptive Technologies and Circular Solutions for Biopolymers, Recycled Polymers and Composites.
12.05 Alexandru Sarbu, SOPREMA – Bio-based Materials for the Building Envelope.
12.15 Pablo R. Outón, INDRESMAT – From Used Cooking Oil to High-Performance Building Materials INDRESMAT’s bio-based polyurethane platform for the building envelope, within HIBISCUS.
12.25 Closing remarks and end of webinar.
