Hosted by PNO Consultants, this webinar covers the 2025 CBE JU work programme, helping bio-based firms and innovators across Scotland and the wider UK benefit from €165M in funding.
Tailored towards companies that are scaling biobased processes, developing biobased polymers, chemicals and textiles, and innovating in nutritional proteins and macroalgae, this webinar will cover:
An introduction to the 13 call topics and key project areas to be funded under the 2025 CBE JU work programme
TRL and technology type: Which funding call is the best fit for your company
What makes a strong European CBE JU project consortium?
How to identify European consortia that are looking for UK/Scotland partners
Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD): What it means and how to write it into an application
Excellence, Impact and Implementation – where to pick-up points
There will an opportunity for questions at the end of the event and attendees can also choose to book a 10 minute 1-2-1 session with PNO Consultants UK after the event to discuss project ideas and alignment with the CBE JU call topics.
Biography
Chris Saywell is an Innovation Consultant at PNO Consultants in the UK. A qualified chemist, Chris has 15 Years’ experience in polymer development, in sustainable materials and in biobased polymers, including furanic polyesters (PEF) and is a named inventor (2012) on their synthesis and blends with PET. Chris is experienced in both Innovate UK and CBE JU funding schemes and has supported UK and Scottish clients to secure funding for alternative proteins and for scaling the valorisation of waste streams into biobased platform chemicals