Leibniz Innovation Farm for Sustainable Bioeconomy

Since spring 2021, the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Bioeconomy e.V. (ATB) has been coordinating the establishment of the Leibniz Innovation Farm for Sustainable Bioeconomy. In the immediate vicinity of the Teaching and Research Institute for Animal Breeding and Animal Husbandry e.V. (LVAT) in Groß Kreutz, a new campus will be created by 2027 where research institutions of the Leibniz Association, universities, and non-university research institutions can conduct research together with other stakeholders on pressing issues of a sustainable circular economy for agriculture and bioeconomy and transfer the results into practice and society.

The project is being supported by the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture (MWFK) of the State of Brandenburg with 25 million euros from the Future Innovation Fund as start-up funding.

The Innovation Farm as infrastructure & model farm

At the InnoHof, innovative concepts and technologies for a sustainable, circular bioeconomy are developed and tested in an interdisciplinary manner by combining agriculture with crop cultivation, animal husbandry and research biorefinery with algae cultivation, insect breeding, natural fiber processing, production of biochemicals and waste management with an integrated biogas plant. To this end, the InnoHof will be established as a distributed research infrastructure under the project management of the ATB in cooperation with numerous other research institutions in the region and worldwide, whereby the existing cooperative farm (LVAT e.V.) will be further diversified, digitized and expanded to include a research biorefinery.