Boreal Alliance's COST Action approved for funding

Boreal Alliance is set to revolutionize sustainable innovation with their newly funded initiative by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology, connecting experts globally in developing advanced biobased materials.

Boreal Alliance has received a positive a funding decision from the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST). On 19 May 2025, COST’s governing board, the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO), confirmed the funding of 70 new COST Actions, set to commence officially in Autumn 2025. As an organization dedicated to fostering research and innovation networks, COST plays a crucial role in connecting diverse research initiatives across Europe and beyond, empowering researchers and innovators to develop their ideas across all fields of science and technology by collaborating with peers. These COST Actions are bottom-up networks, typically lasting four years, that aim to advance research, innovation, and career growth. Competition was substantial, with a success rate of 8.3% for applications in this Open Call, underscoring the exceptional demand and quality of proposals submitted. Despite limited funds, the 70 approved Actions represent an increase from last year's 60 funded networks.

Boreal Alliance's COST Action is titled "Resource-Inclusive Renewable Materials: Leveraging Global Biomass for Sustainable Innovations". This initiative will assemble a worldwide network of specialists focused on developing biobased materials and biorefinery technologies that are effective across various biomass sources, facilitating early-stage material property prediction for scalable innovative solutions. The COST Action will unite European and international expertise, integrating dispersed research efforts to combine diverse knowledge for trans- and multidisciplinary science, embodying a vision of resource-inclusive renewable materials. The initiative aims to bring together specialists from fields such as chemistry, engineering, agriculture, forestry, biomass deconstruction, chemical analytics, separation, and materials science, concentrating on feedstock-agnostic processes and the early-stage prediction of material properties, alongside assessing the techno-economic and environmental viability of the entire value chain. Ultimately, this effort will challenge existing norms, propelling society towards truly sustainable and inclusive solutions.

The proposal of Boreal Alliance was coordinated by KTH under the leadership of Prof. Torbjörn Pettersson.

We eagerly anticipate how this milestone will propel the Boreal Alliance Network into new frontiers of innovation!