The Alliance involves 14 European bioeconomy clusters from 11 countries. It was launched on February 10th in Brussels during the event “How can EU lead in the circular bioeconomy”, where the members of Alliance signed Memorandum of Understanding. 

The founding members of the Alliance:

• Bioeconomy Cluster, Slovakia
• Bioeconomy For Change (B4C), France
• CluBE, Greece
• Cluster industrielle Biotechnologie e.V. (CLIB), Germany
• Corporación Tecnológica de Andalucía (CTA), Spain
• Food & Bio Cluster, Denmark
• Food+i, Spain
• Flanders’ FOOD, Belgium
• Greek Bioeconomy Council, Greece
• Irish Bioeconomy Foundation (IBF), Ireland
• P-BIO, Portugal
• SPRING, the Italian Circular Bioeconomy Cluster, Italy
• Wagralim, Belgium
• World Bioeconomy Association, Finland

The main objective of Alliance is to accelerate the industrialisation and commercialisation of “biobased” innovative ideas and boost the innovation, competitiveness, and resilience of Europe thanks to the circular bioeconomy.