ESR – AgRefine

BioEconomy, Biorefinery, ESR, MSCA ITN, Twitteragrefine, Biorefinery, biotechnolgy, blogging, challenges, GMOs

Trust me, I’m a Biotechnologist

By Anna Visentin

After high school, the moment arrived for me to choose a university. During the university orientation days, I realised I was drawn to science subjects and among them, I was…

BioEconomy, Biorefinery, ESR, MSCA ITN, Twitterbiotechnolgy, circular bioeconomy, microorganisms

How can biotechnology bring us into the future?

By Roderick Van Roosmalen

Imagine you are having a drink with a friend, you are both drinking some alcoholic beverage, there is a plastic menu stand on the table and you get a whiff…

BioEconomy, Biorefinery, ESR, MSCA ITN, Twitterbioeconomy, biomass, blogging, Charles C. Mann, conflict, controversy, degrowth, land use conflict, Schön & Rein, social sciences, sufficiency, technology, transition

Of Wizards and Prophets

By Jan Starke

Climate change, environmental degradation, resource wars, economic crises, feeding a rapidly increasing human population... The list of challenges that our generation faces, is long. Many of these challenges seem to…

BioEconomy, ESR, MSCA ITNagrefine, bioeconomy, Europe, European Commission, strategy, sustainability

Bioeconomy revolution: a mission to the Moon and beyond

By Francesca Magnolo

It can be easy to feel overwhelmed looking at the challenges that a “bioeconomy revolution” entails. However, all these challenges stem from the fact that the bioeconomy aims to ensure…

ESR, MSCA ITN, Recruitment

ESR5: Vacancy

By agRefine

ESR5: Bio-succinic production from TPB-2nd phase biogas and AD-biorefinery residuesSuccinic acid (SA) is commonly produced from petrochemicals. When SA is produced via fermentation, CO2 is consumed. The unique process developed…

ESR, MSCA ITN, Recruitment

ESR10: Vacancy

By agRefine

ESR10: Three-phase-bioreactor scalability and Anaerobic Digestion-retrofitting analysis The retrofitting of existing Anaerobic Digestion (AD) reactors requires that existing AD units to be synergistically integrated as AgRefine’s Three-Phase-Bioreactor’s 2nd phase reactors.…

ESR, MSCA ITN, RecruitmentLCA, PhD, UCD

Come Join AgRefine

By agRefine

Are you interested in a PhD in Real-time Life Cycle Assessment on our MSCA Innovative Training Network?Do you have a Masters level degree in a discipline with a strong focus…

BioEconomy, Biorefinery, ESR, MSCA ITN

Project Start

By agRefine

AgRefine official start date was the 1st October 2019. The first cohort of ESRs started in January 2020 with a project manager recruited in February. The project is due to…