DyeAnotherWay aims at providing Doctoral Candidates with the skills necessary to lead the textile and food industries into a greener future by developing new sustainable dyeing methods exploiting bacterial genetic resources in an innovation-oriented way using cutting edge technology. The co-operation between the professional textile industry, commercial suppliers of analytical and biotechnological services, and scientists from nine Universities from ten countries addresses urgent needs in the non-academic sector and scientific hotspots in microbiology, bioeconomy and the textile and food industry simultaneously. Bacteria-based pigments, are the common research platform in combination with a broad spectrum of disciplines ranging from microbiology, chemistry, biotechnology, biochemistry, molecular biology, and bioinformatics to textile processing and market research. This will, in the near future, make a range of fully characterised biogenic dyes commercially available to the industry for use in dyeing both conventional and new textiles, allowing the industry to wean itself off petrochemical dyes in an economically viable way. The dyes will potentially find application beyond the textile and food industry, thus allowing many fields to benefit from their low carbon footprint production and their compatibility with human and environmental health. The 12 Doctoral Candidates will obtain multi- sectoral training in the relevant disciplines. In addition, training in research management, communication/presentation, creativity and entrepreneurship will provide key transferable skills for public and private sector employment, thereby maximizing the impact on the research and training on the fellows’ careers. The diversity of dissemination and communication activities guarantees the DCs' exposure to stakeholders in every sector and will help shape the future of education in this field.

CARBAFIN will develop, based on an integrated biocatalytic production technology, a radically new value chain for the utilisation of surplus sucrose from sugar beet biomass in the EU. CARBAFIN will demonstrate bio-based co-production of a functional glucoside and fructose. The glucoside products of CARBAFIN (glucosylglycerol, cellodextrin) have large-scale uses in nutrition and feed, cosmetics and detergents. Fructose is exploited in the production of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), a versatile chemical building block currently considered for making bio-based plastics. Leading platform technologies in biocatalytic cell factories and downstream processing, conjointly optimised in CARBAFIN for performance efficiency and cost-effectiveness under full integration of LCA and economic evaluation, are key to make industrial co-production of glycosides and HMF via fructose competitive in today's markets. In addition, CARBAFIN contributes to the establishment of new, fully renewables-based value chains across the European industries, linking the sugar industry sector to the cosmetics, chemicals, polymer and detergents sectors and strengthening the sugar industries' role in food and feed. It supports the efficient cascading use of sugar beet-derived sucrose in combination with biomass-derived base chemicals (e.g. glycerol, glucose). CARBAFIN's HMF production aims at replacing petroleum-based chemicals with bio-based building blocks. CARBAFIN will thus contribute to development of a chemical industry that is low-carbon, resource-efficient and sustainable. CARBAFIN will help Europe to maintain global leadership in industrial biotechnology and secure position as innovation leader in sugar-based products. CARBAFIN's innovations will involve broadly the engagement of societal actors with particular emphasis on consumer awareness and acceptance.