Monday, March 01, 2010
18 February marked the signing of the BE-Basic consortium,
in the presence of Minister of Economic Affairs, Maria van der Hoeven.
BE-Basic is a public-private partnership that executes an innovation
and research programme that builds on the recognised breakthroughs of B-Basic and the Ecogenomics Consortium. BE-Basic supports the development of clean, robust and competitive biobased chemicals, materials and energy industries, including responsible monitoring
and control of healthy soil and water environments, on the basis of advanced genomics technologies and bioprocess engineering.
TU Delft is coordinating the new consortium that includes an R&D budget of more than 120 million euros. Within BE-Basic, the Ecogenomics Consortium was awarded € 18 million.
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