17 June 2019

Soon this can be a reality. Belgian BioBoost Partner ILVO will participate in project APPEAL that investigates how to make leather from fruit residuals. It doesn’t taste good, but it is durable and completely environmentally friendly!

1 May 2019

On 25 and 26 April the Interreg 2 Seas  Mid-Term event was held in Gent (Belgium). Almost all projects in progress were present at the project market. Many of the 400 participants visited our stand. They had a lot of questions regarding the reuse of horticultural residues and enthusiastically tasted the cookies and burgers made of spent grain that remains after beer production.

29 March 2019

The BioBoost partnership has published a report about the results of the tests with methods and techniques to stabilise residual horticultural biomass fractions. In the report stabilisation with thermal treatments, cooling techniques, fermentation and drying methods is evaluated.

25 March 2019

The BioBoost partnership has published a document that gives an insight into the three regions involved in their project: Flanders region around Roeselare (Belgium), Westland region (Netherlands) and Lea Valley (UK) with additional reference to Kent. The inventory considers the meaning of a circular and bio-economy for horticulture and describes these key regions, its main crops, by-products and waste streams from the horticultural industry.

The aim of the inventory is to provide a joint basis for the partnership to shape effective actions and stimulate a more circular bio-economy for horticulture; initially in these regions, but ultimately across the country more widely. The inventory serves as input for strategies and approaches that will be developed later in the project. The inventory should also be interesting for anyone with an interest in the horticultural industry.

22 March 2019

Interreg 2 Seas organises the Video Awards during their Mid-Term Review event 25 and 26 April in Ghent. BioBoost did send in the video ‘Virtual exploration of the practice centre insect breeding of Inagro’, and the video is nominated! You can support us by voting for our video. You need to vote before 14 April. You can vote here (it takes some time to load the page).

1 March 2019

After a lot of testing VIVES managed to make a tasty and "healthy" yacón ice cream within the BioBoost project. This turned out to be a far greater challenge than originally thought. Yacón is a new emerging vegetable (root vegetable), with the advantage that it is rich in inulin, a prebiotic with health-giving properties (e.g. against diarrhea).

1 March 2019

After the harvest of sprouts mostly sticks and leaves are left behind on the field as a soil improver. Some growers use the flows also as fresh feed for their animals. In addition, the fiber-rich sticks can also be processed into paper or cardboard. At a meeting in "De Heen" in The Netherlands researchers and farmers discussed the possibilities of this residual flow.

15 February 2019

On February 12 a meeting took place between InDIRECT (Horizon 2020-BBI-PPP project) and BioBoost (Interreg 2 SEAS) in Mol (BE). Both projects seek a common goal, namely create value from waste streams from the point of view of circular economy. InDIRECT was represented by the leading partner VITO, for BioBoost Inagro and Vives were present. The meeting was conducted on the work around insects.