Eighteen months into the project, CERNET has completed its baseline work, strengthened its consortium and installed its first carbon capture pilot. The project is now preparing for its second phase, in which the three demonstrators will start converting captured biogenic gases into bio-based chemicals and ingredients.
Welcome to CERNET
Turning Carbon into Value
CERNET is a pioneering European innovation project transforming biogenic CO₂ emissions into valuable bio-based products. By integrating cutting-edge carbon capture and conversion technologies across three industrial demo sites, CERNET aims to accelerate the circular bioeconomy and support climate neutrality.
Who's behind Cernet
Meet the partners
The project brings together industry, academia and society to co-create sustainable solutions, foster stakeholder engagement, and maximise impact through open science, inclusivity and knowledge sharing.
Meet the partners
Supporting Cernet
Consortium partners
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CERNET IS SHORT FOR
biogeniC gasEous caRbon conversion into high added value chemicals and ingredients through a bio-based NETwork
Latest news from Cernet
The CERNET project has reached an important milestone at its winery demonstrator, hosted by one project partner ins Spain: Bodega Matarromera. The carbon capture and purification pilot has now been installed and is ready to operate during the upcoming wine production season, marking a key step towards demonstrating innovative carbon capture and utilisation (CCU) technologies under real industrial conditions.
The CERNET project has successfully completed its first year of implementation (M1–M12), consolidating progress and coordination across the consortium, marking a key milestone in the consolidation of its technical and organisational foundations.
The CERNET project has recently formalised an amendment to its Grant Agreement, reinforcing the consortium through the integration of new partners and an updated implementation approach. This adjustment strengthens the project’s technical capacity while ensuring continuity, efficiency, and alignment with its original objectives.
Key Activities in CERNET
Carbon Capture & Conversion
CERNET demonstrates how biogenic CO₂ and CH₄ emissions from industries like winemaking, agriculture, and waste management can be captured and transformed into valuable bio-based products. Technologies include oxyhydrogen fermentation, thermo-catalytic conversion, and microbial fermentation.
Product Validation
The project validates six bio-based ingredients—such as L-alanine, ectoine, and PHA—for use in real-world applications across food, cosmetics, cleaning products, and packaging. Each product is tested for quality, safety, and market relevance.
Sustainability Assessment
CERNET applies Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) principles and conducts Life Cycle Assessments (LCA), Social-LCA, and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) to ensure environmental, social, and economic sustainability across the value chains.
Business Models & Replication
A Decision Support System (DSS) inspired by the EU Emissions Trading System helps stakeholders evaluate trade-offs, optimise CCU configurations, and build scalable business cases. Replication strategies will support uptake beyond the demo sites.
Stakeholder Engagement & Dissemination
CERNET engages feedstock providers, industry, policymakers, and citizens through co-creation workshops, newsletters, and public events. WP8 ensures that knowledge is shared widely and impact is maximised across Europe.
