EBCA: CLIB is a founding member of the European Cluster Alliance

On 10 February 2025, a new alliance at European level was launched in Brussels. Cluster Industrial Biotechnology – CLIB is proud to be a founding member of the European Bioeconomy Cluster’s Alliance. The EBCA brings together 14 bioeconomy clusters from 11 Member States of the EU:

Bioeconomy Cluster (Slovakia), Bioeconomy for Change (France), Cluster Industrial Biotechnology – CLIB (Germany), Cluster of Bioeconomy and Environment in Western Macedonia and Greek Bioeconomy Council (Greece), Flanders’ FOOD and Wagralim (Belgium), Food and Biotech Cluster Denmark (Denmark), Food+í and CTA (Spain), Irish Bioeconomy Foundation (Ireland), P-Bio (Portugal), SPRING, Italian Circular Bioeconomy Cluster (Italy, and World Bioeconomy Association (Finland).

EBCA members will join forces to support the development of circular bioeconomy in Europe and making the EU a leader in the ecological transition.  The clusters agree to work together to exchange information, to establish networking between their ecosystems, to promote bioeconomy education and training, and to develop research, development, and demonstration projects for technologies that convert sustainable feedstock into food, industrial and energy applications.

Together, the clusters of the EBCA represent thousands of local companies, innovators, authorities, research and education institutions, as well as funding and capital entities.  They are anchored in the regions and connected with each other across the EU and abroad to promote circular bioeconomy.

“To implement the bioeconomy on a broad scale and thus strengthen the competitiveness of the European Union, the various EU member states need to join forces. To this end, the diverse stakeholders in the bioeconomy from various sectors and regions must be brought together and networked. The established clusters within the EBCA can achieve and promote this. In this joint network, we will be in an even better position in future to carry the voice of the bioeconomy from the regions to Brussels.”, explains Dennis Herzberg, Managing Director of CLIB and signatory to the MoU establishing EBCA.