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Irish Bioeconomy Foundation

Acronym: IBF

General Information

Identification Code: 959766735801-64
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Entity Form: CLG
Registration Category: Trade and business associations
Registration Date: 9/5/2019
Last Update: 2/26/2024
EP Accredited Number: 0

Mission & Interests

Goals: The Irish Bioeconomy Foundation <Growing the Irish Bioeconomy together> is Ireland's national bioeconomy association and innovation cluster. IBF was founded in mid-2017 to establish a fora of industry, academia and policy leaders around Ireland’s emerging bioeconomy. Our mission is <To promote the conversion of Ireland’s natural land & sea resources to high value products for the development of a sustainable bioeconomy that is globally competitive and creates local development>. IBF will help its members by: - bioprocess design and upscaling - access to finance - outreach and advocacy
Interests Represented: Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Interests:
  • Agriculture and rural development
  • Climate action
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Maritime affairs and fisheries
  • Research and innovation
Levels of Interest:
  • european
  • sub-national
  • national

Activities

Main EU Legislative Proposals: One of the Irish Bioeconomy Foundation (IBF) missions is to contribute to a fact-based policy making, striving to improve bioeconomy-related policy making, in particular appertaining to the domains of agri-food, forestry, marine, bioenergy. Specifically IBF seeks to make policy makers aware of the latest industrial and technology trends developed within the target markets and support its members and partners in disseminating their main opportunities and hurdles for technological advancement ability to meet ongoing societal challenges and sustainable development goals, and how the same are strongly affected by effective or less effective policy making. In that context, IBF seeks to directly or indirectly influencing the formulation or implementation of policy and the decision-making processes of the EU institutions, in particular the European Parliament and the European Commission. Direct contacts with MEP and their support staff is sought and achieved, either in person, or via printed material or e-material. Further, the organisation of meetings and promotional activities is also foreseen, to be featuring MEP and their staff. Finally, voluntary contributions and participation in formal consultations or hearings on envisaged EU legislative or other legal acts and other open consultations is ongoing. Our latest specific policy interest and targets include: Horizon Europe, European Partnership for a circular bio-based Europe (CBE), Common Agricultural Policy, Plastic Strategy, Circular Bioeconomy Thematic Investment Platform (ECBF).
Communication Activities: - Irish Bioeconomy Implementation Group 2019 - Progress Report, multiple mentions to IBF/Lisheen: https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/press/pressreleases/2019/september/title,131892,en.html - National Bioeconomy Ireland Day 2018, Week 2019: http://www.irishbioeconomy.ie/ https://www.sfi.ie/research-news/news/creed-beacon-sfi-bioecon/index.xml#targetText=Prof%20Kevin%20O'Connor%2C%20Director,new%20opportunities%20for%20Irish%20industry. - Support to partner organisations sector-specific communication activities (bioenergy, compost, bioplastics) http://www.cre.ie/web/quality-standards/ - ICT-BIOCHAIN: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/217702/factsheet/en - MPOWERBIO: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/887501 - BIObec: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101023381 - BioeconomyVentures: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101023260 - RuralBioUp: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101060618 - Bio4Human: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135144 - PRIMED: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135353 - BOOST4BIOEAST: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101133398
Inter-institutional or Unofficial Groupings: N/A

Head Office

Address: National Bioeconomy CampusCo Tipperary
Post Code: E41R622
City: Killoran, Moyne, Thurles
Country: IRELAND
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EU Office

Address: National Bioeconomy CampusCo Tipperary
Post Code: E41R622
City: Killoran, Moyne, Thurles
Country: IRELAND
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Financial Data

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Complementary Information: Allocation on annual basis provided above is an estimation.The following link to official EC/CORDIS webpage provide the full detials of the total grant awarded to us in each project (each of this grant is spread over a number of years): https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/792221 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/887501 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101023381 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101023260 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101060618 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135144 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135353 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101133398

Membership Information

Members10 Percent: 1
Members25 Percent: 0
Members50 Percent: 0
Members75 Percent: 0
Members: 1
Members F T E: 0.10000000149011612

Structure

Structure Type: Structure
Is Member Of: http://bioeconomyfoundation.com/Members.html
Organisation Members: IBF is Full Member of Biobased Industries Consortium https://biconsortium.eu/membership/full-members/irish-bioeconomy-foundation