BIOwayste – The University of Balamand
BIOwayste offers a green alternative to benefit from food waste and convert it into renewable resources.
Six teams are currently enrolled in the Innovation Factory program 2020. Find out more about each one below.
BIOwayste offers a green alternative to benefit from food waste and convert it into renewable resources.
The startup will constitute a pioneering platform in Lebanon and the region for natural starter cultures productionaimed at the food industries and MSMEs.
The team is working on a sustainable fiber made from abundant PET plastic to reinforce concrete at a highly competitive cost with higher durability.
The team is conducting research concerning the integration of phase change materials (PCM) into the building’s envelope in Lebanon during its construction.
This team is planning on placing a machine inside ambulances that controls the body of the paramedics to allow them do their work efficiently.
The team is working on mass-produced natural enemies that control various agricultural pests, these biological agents are locally collected and are adapted to our climatic conditions.
“The program provided us with an excellent business learning experience. It helped us to transform our passion in research and papers into business, we were able to get an IP, to finalize the R&D phase and to start the quality control phase to validate our results. It enabled us to shift from a pure academic idea dedicated to getting our Ph.D. degree to a potential business project that we can commercialize”
Rosabelle Chedid, Co-founder of C Green
Two teams enrolled in the program last year were selected to proceed for the incubation phase with Berytech: C Green and VitaLip.