Humanity is facing significant challenges in the coming decades, including climate change and enviromental degradation, sustainable development, public health or food security, to name some. We at NORCE believe that biotechnology holds the key to address some of these challenges in a responsible, sustainable and innovative manner.
Biotechnology is the use of living organisms or part of them to make products, processes or services such as medicines, vaccines, feed, food, materials, energy sources and more.
Biotechnology in NORCE is a crosscutting theme, which involves several research groups and departments, and it is our ambition that it will serve to support the future bioeconomy, inspired by circularity principles, in other words: making the most of renewable resources to create a sustainable future. Our long-term aim is to contribute to green competitiveness and regional development by fostering sustainable value creation with limited environmental and climatic footprints.