Programm

Day 1
Thursday, March 12, 2026 Day 2
Room 1 | Friday, March 13, 2026 Day 2
Room 2 | Friday, March 13, 2026

Registration | from 8:00

Participants have the opportunity to register at the conference office in Papenburg, chat over coffee, and view the exhibition.

Welcome | 9:00 to 09:10

09:00

Welcome
By Organisers

Keynotes: The German and the Dutch perspective | 9:10 to 10:40

09:10

Gerhard Schwetje | President Landwirtschaftskammer Niedersachsen

09:30

Miriam Staudte | State Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection in Lower Saxony

09:50

Gitta Connemann | Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy

10:00

Willemien Meeuwissen | Provincial Executive Member of the province of Drenthe (VVD)
Erik Jan Bennema | Regional Minister of the province of Groningen
Friso Douwstra | Regional Minister of the province of Friesland

10:20

Steuerliche Forschungsförderung
tba | Finanzamt Papenburg

Coffee Break | 10:40 bis 11:00

Take advantage of the coffee break and stop by our poster exhibition and company presentation.

Keynotes: The European perspective | 11:00 to 12:00

11:00

Jens Gieseke | Member of the European Parliament for the region Western Lower Saxony - Clean industrial deal

11:20

Stephanie Koch | Managing Director of Interreg in the Ems-Dollard-Region

11:40

Pieter Faber | Head of EU Office Cities Northern Netherlands

Lunch Break & Exhibition | 12:00 to 13:00

Take advantage of this opportunity to view the poster presentation and company presentation, or exchange ideas with other participants and speakers.

Bio-circular Plastics – Current Technology | 13:00 to 13:45

13:00

Prof. Dr. André Heeres | Hanze UAS

13:20

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrea Siebert-Raths | Institute for Bioplastics and Biocomposites (IFBB) UASA Hannover

13:40

Questions from the audience

Bio-based Buildings | 13:45 to 14:30

13:45

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinrich Wigger and Amelie Fiegert | Jade UAS Oldenburg

14:05

Erik Fledderus | Circulair Friesland

14:25

Discussion

Practical Examples - 3 Pitches | 14:30 to 14:45

14:30

Jan Jaap Folmer | Uppact B.V.

Coen Verboom | Bouwgroep Dijkstra Draisma

Hartmut F. Schoon | Enneatech AG

Coffee Break | 14:45 bis 15:15

Take advantage of the coffee break and stop by our poster exhibition and company presentation.

Paludiculture – State of the Art | 15:15 to 16:00

15:15

Dr. Christian Fritz | Radboud University Nijmegen

15:35

Prof. Dr. Gerald Jurasinski | Greifswald Mire Centre/ University of Greifswald

15:55

Discussion

Bioenergy and Cascade Utilisation | 16:00 to 16:45

16:00

Prof. Dr. Walter Stinner | Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum (DBFZ)

16:20

Philip Testroet | Industrieverband Garten e.V. (IVG)

16:40

Questions from the audience

CO₂-Markets and Regulations | 16:45 to 17:45

16:45

Eise Spijker | JIN Climate and Sustainability

17:05

Erikjan van Huet Lindemann | Dutch Carbon Company B.V.

17:25

Wibke Christel | Ministeriet for Grøn Trepart Denmark

Practical Examples Paludi Products – 3 Pitches | 17:45 to 18:00

17:45

N.N | Processing/Marketing

Sjanie Hindenberg | Klasmann-Deilmann GmbH

Petra Boorsma | Biosintrum

Closing – Preview on Day 2 | 17:50 to 18:10

Conference Dinner | ab 19:00 Uhr

19:00

Dinner speech
Vanessa Gattung | Mayor of the City of Papenburg

Conference Dinner
Please register for the dinner using the registration form.

Welcome | 09:00 bis 09:10

09:00

Welcome
Guido Rink | Alderman of the Municipality of Emmen

parallel sections | from 09:15

Starting at 09:15, two sections will run in parallel: Sustainable Land Use (Room 1) and Circular Economy (Room 2)

PALUDICULTURE – From Field to Product | 09:15 to 10:45

Chairs: Frans Debets and Jessica K. Meißner

09:15

Opening & Moderation
Frans Debets and Jessica K. Meißner | 3N Kompetenzzentrum e.V.

09:20

Introduction to Topic & Speakers

09:25

Block 1: Sphagnum Farming

Silke Kumar | Torfwerk Moorkultur Ramsloh

Dr. Jens-Uwe Holthuis | Stiftung Naturschutz LK Diepholz

Dr. Gert-Jan van Duinen | Stichting Bargerveen

09:45

Block 2: Typha

Elisabeth Schwertfeger | Naturschutzstiftung Lk Cuxhaven

Florian Schick | Jade UAS Oldenburg

Jonas-Rumi Baumann | Hochschule Bremen

Tjeerd Veenhoven | Studio Tjeerd Veenhoven

10:00

Block 3: Wet Meadow

Birthe Godt | Michael Succow Stiftung

N.N. | Project LivingLab Teufelsmoor

N.N. | Processing/marketing

Jasper van Belle | Veen Innovatie Polder Hegewarren

10:20

Block 4: Summary, Discussion

Coffee break | 10:45 to 11:15

Take advantage of the coffee break and stop by our poster exhibition and company presentation.

Sustainable land use and nutrient cycles | 11:15 to 13:00

11:15

Optimizing nitrogen use efficieny in European livestock systems from feed to plant N use
Dr. Frank Liebisch | Agroscope

11:40

Digestate as a soil substrate | first results from the BiToP project
Sascha Hermus | 3N Kompetenzzentrum e.V.

12:00

Project ReFarm
Dr. Chris Schott | Wetsus European Centre of Excellence for Sustainable Water Technology

12:20

Dr. Elke Burow | Centre of Competence for Nature-based Climate Action, Business unit of Zukunft – Umwelt – Gesellschaft (ZUG) gGmbH

12:40

Agroforestry for sustainable land use – current state and development in Germany
Michelle Breezmann | Deutscher Fachverband für Agroforstwirtschaft (DeFAF)

Lunch Break & Exhibition | 13:00 to 14:00

Take advantage of this opportunity to view the poster presentation and company presentation, or exchange ideas with other participants and speakers.

Bioenergy and cascade utilisation – Peat Substitutes | 14:00 to 16:00

14:00

Opening
Frank Köster | 3N Kompetenzzentrum e.V.

14:05

Project PeatFree Substrates – Results of cultivation trials and silphium fermentation
Florian Ruhnau | HS Osnabrück
Peter Schreurs | Agrar Innovatie Nederland B.V.

14:35

Project From Grass to Gas
Ingrid Klinge | New Energy Coalition

15:05

Future of bioenergy
Joost Kuhlenkamp | Landesverband Erneuerbare Energien Niedersachsen (LEE)

15:25

Biogas in Lower Saxony – Inventory 2024
Michael Kralemann | 3N Kompetenzzentrum e.V.

Conclusion | On the Stairs: farewell speech | 16:00

Get-Together

Welcome | 09:00 bis 09:10

09:00

Welcome
Guido Rink | Alderman of the Municipality of Emmen

parallel sections | from 09:15

Starting at 09:15, two sections will run in parallel: Sustainable Land Use (Room 1) and Circular Economy (Room 2)

Bio-circular Plastics – Ready for Market 1.0 | 09:15 to 10:45

Chair: Cor Kamminga

09:15

Introduction
Cor Kamminga | Ecoras

09:25

plesTic ready approach – the Dutch approach to bio-circular innovation
Martijn Beljaars | Greenwise Campus Circular Plastics

09:40

Operational networks

Philip Mörbitz | Fraunhofer Institut für Umwelt-, Sicherheits- und Energietechnik (UMSICHT)
Hartmut F. Schoon | Enneatech AG (Representative & Member Kunststoffnetzwerk (D))
René van Bremen | Sustainable Products and Chemicals Cluster (SUSPACC)
Erik Fledderus | Circulair Friesland

10:00

Block 2: Cross border cooperation & Interreg projects
EMPHATI
Pascal Gerlach & Dr. Frank Köster | 3N Kompetenzzentrum e.V.
Two4C
Christiaan Bolck | Oost NL

10:30

NEXCARB
Christiaan Bolck | Oost NL

Coffee break | 10:45 to 11:15

Take advantage of the coffee break and stop by our poster exhibition and company presentation.

Bio-circular Plastics – Ready for the Market 2.0 | 11:15 to 13:00

11:15

Hospital Waste
Femke van der Zant | University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG) (Care2Change)

Project SORTED
Sven Jurgens | Ecoras

Cross-Industrial Supply-Chain
Dr. Matthias Rechel | Niedersachsen-next

Eduard Putsch | Expinos
Denis Schmitz | HS Osnabrück
Dr. Thomas Taddigs | Volkswagen AG

Upcycling Tissue
Prof. Dr. Elke Wilharm | Ostfalia UAS

From Nature to Nozzle: Reinforcing PHA with Hemp Fibers for Sustainable FFF
Nadja Berger | UAS Münster

12:15

Block 5: Panel Discussion (Lead: Cor Kamminga | ecoras)
Joost Pâques | Paques Biomaterials
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Post | Philips Health Tech Drachten
Christiaan Bolck | Oost NL
Cord Neemann | NEEMANN LiteFlexPACKAGING GmbH
Peter Brinkmann | TKT Kunststoff-Technik GmbH
Philip Mörbitz | Fraunhofer Institut für Umwelt, Sicherheits- und Energietechnik (UMSICHT)

12:55

Wrap Up
Cor Kamminga | ecoras

Lunch Break & Exhibition | 13:00 to 14:00

Take advantage of this opportunity to view the poster presentation and company presentation, or exchange ideas with other participants and speakers.

Circular and Bio-based Construction: Ready for Take Off? | 14:00 to 16:00

14:00

Opening & Moderation
Jana Denecke & Jochen Keimer | 3N Kompetenzzentrum e.V.

14:05

Block 1: Bio-based Materials: From Field to Building – Lessons learned!
Focus: Bio-based Buildings and Insulation Materials – Pilot Projects

tba
Dirk Scharmer | Deltagrün Architektur Büro

Building with Renewable Raw Materials – Potential for Achieving Climate Goals
Dorothee Mix | Bildungswerkstatt für nachhaltige Entwicklung e.V. (BIWENA)

15:00

Block 2: The Future of Biobased Materials – Ready for Take Off?
How do we achieve a breakthrough for biobased and circular construction methods?

Circular Transition in Fryslân
Charlotte Strijbos | Project Manager Circular Economy, Provincie Fryslân

15:25

Exkursion to BBoBB Showroom and Paludi Tiny House (Outside of the Venue)
Jana Denecke & Jessica K. Meissner | 3N Kompetenzzentrum e.V.

Conclusion | On the Stairs: Farewell Speech | 16:00

Get-Together