ABOUT ICT BIOCHAIN

OBJECTIVES
MAIN OBJECTIVE
ICT-BIOCHAIN main objective is to identify opportunities for ICT to increase the efficiency of biomass supply chains for the bio-based industry. This way, the project can play a key role in making Europe’s bio based supply chains more efficient and contributing to several key BIC SIRA strategic objectives for 2020 and 2030 including :
- Delivering a 10% increase in biomass supply in Europe by 2020 (20% by 2030) by increasing productivity and mobilisation in a sustainable manner while making best use of innovations in agriculture and forestry practices
- Ensuring 20% of the chemicals and materials production in Europe will be bio-based by 2020 (30% to 2030); this is compared to the current situation 10% of chemicals and materials being bio-based
- To help guarantee a secure and sustainable supply of biomass feedstock for European biorefineries.
- Boost the mobilisation and utilisation of 15 % of currently unused sources per year by 2020
OBJECTIVES
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To establish multi-actor digital innovation hubs for biomass supply chains
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To produce a feedstock-specific database of best practice and new opportunities for digitization to improve the efficiency of biomass supply chains within MDRs
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To establish a user friendly online platform to allow for wider exploitation of ICT, IoT and Industry 4.0 tools for improving supply chain efficiency
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To pave the way for the replication of the DiHs in other EU regions
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To disseminate and exploit ICT-BIOCHAIN Results
METHODOLOGY
In terms of approach, ICT BIOCHAIN follows a 3-step approach; Identification, Application and Replication.




STEP 1 : IDENTIFICATION :
Scoping of Key Opportunity areas
Supported by Regional Facilitators and Model Demonstrator Partners, the competence centre will assess state-of-the-art and identify new opportunities for ICT, IoT and Industry 4.0 to increase the efficiency of biomass supply chain.

STEP 2 : APPLICATION :
Establishing of Test Bed Digital Innovation Hubs and creation of the ICT-BIOCHAIN platform
ICT-BIOCHAIN will develop 2 digital innovation hubs within two MDRs. MDR’s have been chosen based on their specific potential to represent diverse value chains to produce Sustainable Chemicals.

STEP 3 : REPLICATION - Digitizing the EU biobased economy :
To ensure that the work done within ICT-BIOCHAIN is fully exploited several steps are being taken. ICT-BIOCHAIN is developing a series of measures to ensure greater accessibility to project results for the wider public.
A roadmap will be produced to allow replication of Digital Innovation Hubs in broader European Bioeconomy.
IMPACTS
