BISC-E Challenge 2022

LT Students in Final Five
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The Bio-based Innovation Student Challenge Europe (BISCE) encourages students to explore the emerging  bio-based work field while developing a new bio-based product or process. The competition is sponsored by the Bio-based Industries Consortium in Brussels. This year all teams developed a bio-based innovation and presented their ideas via a powerpoint presentation to a jury of experts from industry and science. The presentation had to address sustainability, technical feasibility and economic viability of the innovation.

This year the Lithuanian team from Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas was selected as one of the five finalists in the competition. Students of the university’s Agricultural Academy, the Faculty of Music and the Bioeconomic Development Department proposed a project which would provide biofermenters for waste disposal depots near high-rise apartment buildings that would turn organic waste into compost in a few days. One kilogram of organic waste would provide 400-500 g of compost, and could be sold to agribusiness directly and via retail, with an investment return of 15%.

Unfortunately the Lithuanian team did not place in the competition. The Italian team GENAB won the European final on 13 October. Belgium finished in second place and the Netherlands took home the third prize.

The GENAB team won with an idea for the production of rubber from renewable raw materials. The jury and the public appreciated the entry because it is an interesting new system. The Belgian team presented their idea to produce activated carbon from residual flows from the fruit industry.

Prynt3D from the Netherlands came in third with their idea for personalized insoles from a 3D printer. These soles are made from residual flows from the mushroom industry.

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