C5

Turning sunlight, water, and CO2 into valuable bio-based chemicals

The production of bio-based chemicals has long been crucial to various sectors and industries, affecting agriculture, medicine and more. Its complexity has made manufacturing processes difficult, making sustainable production often economically unviable. The EIC-funded C5 project will transform the production of bio-based chemicals, maximising photosynthetic CO2 fixation and converting it into the versatile chemical feedstock molecule isoprene with high efficiency. The project will achieve this by developing disruptive technologies that pioneer the next generation of metabolic engineering, introducing the construction of synthetic cellular organelles in photosynthetic cyanobacteria. In combination with a novel bio-product harvesting technique that eliminates the need for costly biomass collection, the C5 consortium will drive critical innovations to make sustainable biomanufacturing of chemicals economically feasible.