Closing date: 26 May 2026 The National Biofilm Innovation Centre (NBIC)’s Industrial Challenge Response Fund is calling for high-quality project proposals from organisations with the expertise to investigate and exploit areas in which biofilms play a central role. Industrial Challenge Response Fund (ICRF) proposals must involve a collaboration between one …
Closing date: 16 July 2026 The Global Partnerships Seedcorn Fund (GPSF) enables UK researchers to develop new international partnerships and networks, which underpin the development of long-term sustainable collaborations. Proposed collaborations within this programme may involve international research partners from any country and in any science area within NERC’s remit. While …
A short video of microbial translocation along different fibres (fungal mycelium and synthetic fabric), produced as part of the EBNet-funded Fibre Highways Proof-of-Concept (POC) project, is now available HERE on our YouTube channel. The project also provided the wonderful Ebb & Flow prototype – see image below; with an accompanying …
The Better Water 4 All Network+ is offering travel bursaries to support early-career researchers (ECRs) and engineers/professionals presenting at international conferences. A limited number of ECR Conference Travel Bursaries will be available on a competitive basis to ECR members presenting work at prestigious international events. Applicants must have been accepted …
Date: 2 June 2026, 12-13:00 The Environmental Biotechnology Innovation Centre (EBIC) is delighted to invite you to an interactive live webinar on Enzyme Engineering for PFAS Remediation This is the third of four webinars in EBIC’s current Engineering Biology in Action series. Hear from leading experts including Dr Tao Lyu …
AquaEnviro‘s one-day online training events for May – September 2026 include the following courses: 9 June 2026 Optimising Effluent Treatment Plants: BAT for Food, Beverage & Paper Industries 30 June 2026 Optimising Anaerobic digesters: Sewage sludge 14 July 2026 Wastewater Treatment 16 July 2026 Optimising Activated Sludge plants 16 Sept …
Closing dates: 11 June 2026, 10 Sept 2026, 10 Dec 2026 The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Catalyst (IBIC) is a £5 million EPSRC-funded initiative focused on building a sustainable bioeconomy in the north-west. It aims to bring together universities, industry, and civic partners, providing funding and support to help turn industrial …
EBNet’s Director Prof Sonia Heaven will give a short talk on our Network to representatives of BBSRC in Southampton on 3 June 2026. This is an opportunity to share your thoughts on key issues for Environmental Biotechnology, and/or ideas for this and other UKRI-funded Networks. We plan to include preliminary …
Dr Clare Lukehurst has recently been recognised by an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Although the text is behind a paywall, it’s very gratifying to see her remarkable life and contributions acknowledged in this way. Dr Lukehurst acted for many years as the UK representative for IEA …
Closing date: 22 Sept 2026 The Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) 2026 Call for project proposals is now open for submissions. A total of €170.7 million across 13 topics will support the development and scale-up of competitive circular bio-based industries in Europe. Applications are invited on the following …
Results from a webinar organised by EBNet’s working group on AI & ML in the Bioeconomy have formed the basis for a recent Perspectives paper in Resources, Conservation and Recycling. The paper identifies the power of biotechnologies such as fermentation, anaerobic digestion and bioelectrochemical systems – all topics of sister …
BB-REG-NET has released its latest report on integrating biodegradability into life cycle assessment (LCA). The new report notes that LCA often under-emphasises biodegradation and end-of-life impacts, meaning that potential benefits may be overlooked in any comparison between bio-based products and conventional materials. While noting that test conditions are not fully …
Last Autumn saw Round 7 of Coccus Pocus, the annual scary story competition for Halloween. The 2025 competition was supported by the Microbiology Society as part of its Knocking Out AMR campaign: the competition organiser Dr Georgios Efthimiou is himself a Microbiology Society Champion. Entrants are asked to write a …
Last year EBNet’s Biochars for Pollution Prevention WG ran a very successful workshop, jointly supported by BBNet and EBNet, on Integration of Thermal, Thermochemical and Biological Conversion. A Summary of the workshop was published shortly after it took place, but a more detailed report on its findings has been embargoed …
Closing date: 25 June 2026 The strategic Longer and Larger (sLoLa) funding aims to support large team-based curiosity-driven bioscience discovery research projects. Projects are expected to generate new fundamental biological knowledge of broad and long-term significance, changing how we think about bioscience within and likely transcending their immediate fields. They …
