About the GRAIL project
The GRAIL project is a 48-month Collaborative Project with funding by the European Commission under FP7 Programme for Knowledge Based Bio-Economy. The theme of the GRAIL project is “Preventing and valorising bio-waste in biorefineries Optimal and cost-effective industrial biocatalysts”.
Overall concept of GRAIL
- The use, exploitation and further development of the state of the art in the field of bio-based products from glycerol. 
- The development research-driven cluster for the use of crude glycerol for the production of high-value platforms, as well as valued end products, harnessing the biotech processes.
- The GRAIL project has a strong business focus and its ultimate goal is to set up implantation of biorefineries in close relationship with biodiesel.