About the Biorenewables Development Centre: The BDC is a University of York subsidiary, working at the interface between academia and industry to develop and scale-up new biorefining technologies using biomass and biowastes as feedstocks. Current activities include collaborative projects to develop a new variety of rapeseed oil for use as an industrial lubricant; looking at ways of turning food by-products into pharmaceuticals and assessing the pre-treatment of straw for anaerobic digestion. Since 2012, their multidisciplinary team of chemists and biologists has worked on over 350 bio-based projects with SMEs, multinationals and leading academics world-wide. www.biorenewables.org About ERDF The BDC offers the business support programme as part of the “BioVale ERDF Project” involving £1.79M of funding from the England European Regional Development Fund as part of the European Structural and Investment Funds Growth Programme 2014-2020. The Department for Communities and Local Government is the Managing Authority for European Regional Development Fund. Established by the European Union, European Regional Development Fund funds help local areas stimulate their economic development by investing in projects which will support innovation, businesses, create jobs and local community regenerations. For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/european-growth-funding

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