Programme overview
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Wednesday, 5 June 2024
09.00 - 09.45
09.45 - 09.55
Official Opening of RRB 2024
Opening Plenary Session:
09.55 - 10.30
Official Opening Address: The EU: challenges for the next five years
Herman Van Rompuy
Former President of the European Council
10.30 - 11.05
Keynote Lecture 1: From climate science to climate transition
Valérie Trouet
Belgian Climate Centre
11.05 - 11.40
Keynote Lecture 2: Data Sharing to Accelerate the Bioeconomy
Nigel Mouncey, DOE Joint Genome Institute, Berkeley, USA
11.40 - 12.45
Lunch and exhibition
12.45 - 16.00
Parallel sessions Presentations and Poster Tour 1 during Coffee Break
16.00 - 18.00
Biobased Market, at the Palace of the Academies
Thursday, 6 June 2024
09.00 - 16.30
Parallel sessions Presentations and Poster Tour 2 during Coffee Break
16.30 - 17.30
19.30
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
