About Elegance

Biocatalysis, the use of enzymes for chemical transformations, offers an alternative for the sustainable manufacturing of drugs, chemicals and materials. Thanks to directed evolution, enzymes can be tailored with improved functions. However, bioprocess scalability is limited by a poor understanding of enzyme function and by the so-called ‘valley of death’ or funding gaps between basic and applied research. With the support of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the ELEGANCE project aims to establish an academic training programme based on experimental and computational methodologies, such as data science and AI, to engineer integrated multi-parametric enzymes and bioprocesses. Its key objective is to prepare the next-generation specialists with the necessary hard and soft skills to advance data-driven biocatalysis and accelerate bioprocess development.