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The Government of Catalonia has approved Decree Law 22/2025, aimed at increasing the resilience of the electricity supply and accelerating the deployment of renewable energy across the region. This new regulation comes in response to the blackout of April 2025, which highlighted the vulnerabilities of the current energy system. t updates and strengthens measures previously … Read more

Investing in the bioeconomy often means stepping outside one’s comfort zone, exploring unfamiliar markets, and tackling challenges that go well beyond technology. This is the case of Productes Labin, a Catalan company specialised in fertilisers, now venturing into a new field: transforming animal by-products — typically treated as waste — into high-value ingredients for biostimulants … Read more

Each year, thousands of kilos of wool produced by small-scale Catalan shepherds go unsold and end up being treated as waste. This situation represents both an environmental and economic loss, threatening the continuity of extensive grazing and wasting a resource with multiple potential applications. To reverse this trend, the Municipality of Tagamanent has launched, with … Read more

With ten projects accelerated and two years of activity, the Bioboost Accelerator has consolidated its role as a valuable tool to activate transformative, locally rooted initiatives. Collaboration with these Bioboosters has revealed a combined investment potential of €55 million, while also highlighting the barriers that hinder capital mobilisation. Instruments to unlock investment in bioeconomy projects … Read more

The Bioboost project was featured as a key case study during the side session “Bioeconomy in Action: Success Stories, Challenges and the Road Ahead”, held as part of EU Green Week 2025, one of the European Commission’s leading environmental policy events. This session, organised in collaboration with the Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI), brought … Read more

As Bioboost enters its final phase, the project is taking a decisive step: strengthening its ties with the investment ecosystem to ensure the continuity of its acceleration services and to facilitate the implementation of Biobooster projects. Lessons learnt for a more robust investment strategy Bioboost has identified several strategic lines of action to reinforce the … Read more

As part of our ongoing efforts to bring visibility to the bioeconomy transformation happening across Catalonia, we are excited to announce a new video series highlighting the Bioboosters — the pioneering projects supported by the Bioboost Accelerator. These short videos will offer a behind-the-scenes look at each initiative, illustrating their goals, the support they received … Read more

On 30 October, Tagamanent became the meeting point for various experts and representatives from the public and private sectors, all with a common goal: to rethink and add value to the wool produced in Catalonia, which is currently undervalued and has limited viable uses. The Tagamanent Town Council, in collaboration with various entities and companies, … Read more

Ametller Origen is a family-run company that has been cultivating and caring for its land since 1830. Today, as a result of this extensive experience as farmers and producers, the company has grown into a large enterprise dedicated to the production and distribution of food products. It operates over 140 stores across Catalonia, where customers … Read more

The problem of small livestock farms One of the main problems of small livestock farms lies in the difficulty of valuing the wool obtained after shearing the sheep. Currently, due to the difficulties in recovering it, not only is it not profitable, but it is considered a waste that generates an additional expense for livestock … Read more