New CORDIS service for the European 'Knowledge-based bio-economy'
23 May 2007

The Seventh Framework Programme for research and development (FP7), in funding research under Theme 2 'Food, agriculture and fisheries, and biotechnology', aims to establish and promote a European 'Knowledge-based bio-economy' (KBBE). The CORDIS FP7 Service has launched a new KBBE Service, developed in collaboration with the European Commission's DG Research, to support these aims.

The funding available through KBBE is geared towards three major activities:

• Sustainable production and management of biological resources;
• Fork to farm - food and its links with health and well-being;
• Biochemistry and biotechnology for sustainable non-food products.

In a first for CORDIS, the new KBBE Service will include a series of regular video interviews with Christian Patermann, Director for 'Biotechnologies, agriculture & food' research at the European Commission, in which he explains an aspect of the new research programme.

These short videos can be downloaded directly from the CORDIS KBBE Service which can be found at:

cordis.europa.eu/fp7/kbbe/home_en.html