Carbon management towards low fossil carbon use

The major highlights / significant events related to Cambioscop for the period January 1st2019 to December 31st 2019 can be summarized as follows:

• Organizing, in Nov. 2019, an international bioeconomy conference in Toulouse, sustbioeco (sustbioeco2019.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/6). It featured 2 researchers of the Web of Science highly cited researchers list of 2019 and an IPCC author, among others.
• Securing a H2020 project (NEGEM, call LC-CLA-02-2019 on Negative Emission Technologies) to start in 2020 (140,000€), highly related to Cambioscop. It involves top European institutions such as University of Cambridge, Oxford University, Potsdam Institute for Climate (PIK), Imperial College London, ETH-Zurich, the Finnish VTT and accordingly top-level climate researchers. A postdoc will be employed for 19 months, starting 2020.
• Receiving the Mourou-Strickland Mobility Grant of the French Embassy in Canada (~3,000€). Mobility performed in August 2019 at University of Waterloo (School of Environment, Enterprise and Development ). The Cambioscop project was presented there.
• Holding Cambioscop’s first (physical) advisory board meeting in Toulouse (November 2019), involving top-level researchers from the US and several European countries.
• Securing 50% funding from INRAE MetaProgramme Glo Foods for a PhD to start early 2020.
• 3 papers acknowledging the project published (impact factors of journals ranging from 5.589 – 10.556)
• 3 other Cambioscop papers submitted in 2019 (all awaiting for an answer at the moment)
• Receiving as a main supervisor a postdoc (Dr. Patrick Brassard) coming to France with his own excellence grant (programme FRQNT, Canada), to carry his postdoctoral research within the framework of Cambioscop. Dr. Brassard was in Toulouse from January to December 2019 (his 2^nd year of postdoc is to be carried out in Canada).
• Employing a postdoc fully financed by Cambioscop (Dr. Shivesh Karan; India). He started in March 2019, for a total duration of 18 months
• Employing a PhD financed partly by Cambioscop and partly by INRAE (funding secured in 2019). Mrs. Seunghye Lee from South Korea
• Employing a PhD financed 30% by Cambioscop and the rest by a French-Thai FSPI programme. Mrs. Pimchanok Su-Ungkavatin from Thailand
• Oral presentation of Cambioscop’s results within research objective 4 (biopumps) at the EUBCE conference (May 2019)
• Invited by the Occitanie Region to contribute to the second edition of its “Forum Economie Circulaire”, which Cambioscop did through a 200 s video: www.youtube.com/watch
• Receiving a PhD student (Mrs. Concetta Lodato; DTU, Denmark) for her 3-months external research stay. She worked on a (French) regional bioeconomy case study relevant to (and incorporated within) the Cambioscop project.
• Organizing a free consequential Life Cycle Assessment training in Toulouse, April 2019
• Keynote speaker at 2 international events, invited roundtable facilitator, invited speakers for national events, see details in the free comments sections below.