BEACON wins prestigious European Commission RegioStars award
A prestigious European Commission RegioStars Award 2014 has been won by the BEACON Biorefining Centre of Excellence, an innovative Welsh research partnership dedicated to developing industrial products from plants to reduce reliance on fossil-based resources such as coal and gas. BEACON is a Welsh Government EU funded collaboration between Aberystwyth, Bangor and Swansea universities. The BEACON team received their award at a glittering awards ceremony in Brussels. Researchers at BEACON work with industry, including small and medium sized enterprises, to develop renewable materials, fuels and chemicals as well as modified and new environmental and economically sustainable processes. Led by Aberystwyth University’s Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), BEACON was one of 4 projects to be shortlisted in the “Sustainable growth: Green growth and jobs through Bio-economy” category. The other three were Ecoponto em casa from Portugal, ORGANEXT from Belgium, Ge...