Within the frame of the co-funded call ERA CoBioTech funded 22 research projects (funding volume of ~€mio 31). These projects focussed on application-oriented research in:
a) Synthetic biology approaches to design and construct new biological parts, devices and systems
b) Systems biology approaches to metabolic engineering and optimisation of biological processes
c) Identification and use of the metabolic potentials of genomic data
d) Chemical and biotechnological approaches to transform bio-based molecules into molecules with high added value.
All these projects were monitored closely including regular updates, reports (mid- and final reports) and meetings (kick-off-, midterm- and endterm project seminars/ERA CoBioTech Final meeting) in order to share knowledge, to interact and to network. Communication measures concerning the ERA-Net Cofund and its co-funded call projects were performed using both printed (brochure and factsheets) but mainly online based routes, like the website, twitter and online newsletters. More information on the co-funded call and details on the funded projects can be found here:
https://www.cobiotech.eu/call-information(se abrirá en una nueva ventana).
ERA CoBioTech implemented two additional transnational calls - leading to 10 additional transna-tional research projects. All projects that emerged from ERA CoBioTech were presented in detail with their activities and (interim) results on the ERA CoBioTech homepage and thus were made available to the general public (including project abstracts, information on social media contacts, links to the projects´ homepages, project brochures and the projects´ presentations during the status seminar in 2021).
Several webinars were organized in order to provide researchers and research projects with up-to-date, practical knowledge like „IP management for biotechnology“, "Technology-based entrepre-neurship: launching new technologies into markets and society" and "EU projects communication, focusing on audio-visual creation and social media campaigns“ incl. training on video-editing tools and a webinar on “policy brief writing”.
The “European Biotechnology Hub meetings” were organized on a regular base reaching out to rele-vant key actors and stakeholders from multiple biotechnology-related areas.
In addition, ERA CoBioTech succeeded in developing a detailed and meaningful Strategic Innova-tion and Research Agenda, laid down a policy brief, conducted a video contest and organized a se-ries of workshops on stakeholder engagement.
