Programme overview
Monday, 5 June 2024
09.00 - 9.45
Start registration
09.45 - 11.40
Official Opening of RRB 2024
Opening Plenary Session:
Official Opening:
- The EU: challenges for the next five years, Herman Van Rompuy, Former President of the European Council
- Keynote Lecture 1: From climate science to climate transition, Valérie Trouet, Belgian Climate Centre
- Keynote Lecture 2: Data Sharing to Accelerate the Bioeconomy, Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, USA
12.00 - 13.00
Lunch and exhibition
12.45 - 16.15
Parallel sessions
16.45 - 18.45
Biobased Market, at the Palace of the Academies
Tuesday, 6 June 2024
09.00 - 10.30
Parallel sessions Presentations and Poster Tour 2 during Coffee Break
16.30 - 17.30
Town Hall Panel Discussion at the Palace of the Academies
19.30
RRB Conference Dinner at Hotel Radisson Collection, Grand Place Brussels
Friday, 7 June 2024
09.00 - 12.30
12.30 - 13.00
RRB 2024 Closing Session
13.00 - 14.00
Farewell Lunch
15.00 - 17.00
Visit of the Federal Parliament (the Senate)
Duration visit 1.30 hrs ; max 40 people
Session topics:
- Biobased chemicals and biodegradable materials
- Biocatalysis & novel fermentation processes
- Biorefining
- Catalysis and kinetics for renewables
- Downstream processing
- Marine applications
- Polysaccharides
- Pretreatment and transformation of lignocellulose
- Sustainability and circular economy
- Thermochemical transformations of biomass
- Valorisation of food residues
- Wood and forestry
