Bio Base Europe Training Center expected to open Q1 2011

In Belgium, Bio Base Europe announced that its bio-focused Training Centre is expected to open in the first quarter of 2011. The Bio Base Europe initiative will include both a Pilot Plant and a Training Centre dedicated to bio-based industry and aims to support and accelerate the development of a sustainable bio-based economy in Europe.

Representing an investment of 8 million euros, the Bio Base Europe Training Centre will house the facilities and expertise to provide education and training for process operators, and is intended to become Europe’s leading knowledge centre on the bio-based industry. The new Training Centre is jointly co-funded by Interreg IV (the European Union interregional development programme), the Flemish (BE) government, and the Dutch government and Terneuzen local authorities.

It will be based in Terneuzen, The Netherlands.

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