UPLIFT, upPE-T and PRESERVE to hold a joint online workshop on Standardisation in Plastics and Circular Economy

• The session will count on the participation of three EU-funded initiatives working on bio-based packaging: UPLIFT, upPE-T, and PRESERVE.
• These projects are all working to upcycle food and drinks packaging through different technologies such as biological depolymerisation, enzymatic technologies and enzymes compounding.

The three European projects working in the framework of standardization will organize an online workshop to be held on 27th April 2022 from 10:00 – 13:00 (CET). The aim of this event is to build a high-level meeting point for stakeholders across Europe to show how standardisation can support valorising research and innovation (R&I) results.

The workshop will be divided into three parts: during the first one, the workshop will count on different short talks from a representative of the Health and Digital Executive Agency (HaDEA) among others to frame the standardization in Europe and how European R&I projects can use standardisation as a successful conduit to valorise their results.

The second part will present the CEN-CENELEC Workshop Agreements (CWAs) as well as the challenges of standardization in circular economy, whilst an open discussion will be conducted in the final session regarding the importance of standardization in circular economy.

Registrations are open here.

Following the pathway of our previous successful webinar on 15 November 2021, the BIOEAST Initiative and the BIOEASTsUP project organize a webinar on “Mobilizing grants for bio-based innovations in the Central and Eastern European countries”, which will take place next 28 April 2022 from 9.00 to 12.00 CET.

The aim of this webinar is to give up-to-date information on newly opening research and innovation grants related to the biomass production and processing. It aims to present the European Commission research framework programme Horizon Europe priorities and instruments including the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) and the possibilities to participate in networks as the Bio-based Industries Consortium offered possibilities.

You can register using the following Registration link

The ConCirMy (Configurator for the Circular econoMy) research project opened a survey on “Sustainability-oriented product decisions and sustainability software”. The contributions will support the research on the promotion of environmentally friendly products and the development of sustainability software.

You can participate to the survey via this link.

ConCirMy is particularly focused on promoting circular economy products (e.g. products made of recycled or recyclable materials). In addition, it aims to promote products of the bioeconomy (bio-based products), which we understand to be products which are, wholly or in part, made using resources of biological origin and can substitute products traditionally made with fossil resources.

ConCirMy is funded by the ReziProK (‘Resource-efficient Circular Economy – Innovative Product Cycles’) measure of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

Transition2Bio is organizing a capacity building on “How to raise awareness and communicate the Bioeconomy”, which will take place next 6-7 April from 09:30 to 12:30 am.

The capacity building is organized in collaboration with the EuBioNet and the support of BIOEAST Initiative and GoDanuBio Project with the aim to support participants with contents, methodologies, tools, replicable good practices and formats in the light of strengthening their effectiveness in the implementation of awareness raising, communication and education activities.

Format and structure
The package is structured in 5 modules with a number of preparatory activities (e.g. Info-trainings and parallel testing of the capacity building modules).

During the first day the involved EU Member States and Regions will be offered an overview of “How to raise awareness and communicate the bioeconomy”, while the second day is devoted to the exchange of experiences and mutual learning among the participants through a real-time interactive discussion.

More more information and the full agenda here.
You can register to the capacity building at this link.

The next World BioEconomy Roundtable will take place on 7 April, 2022 starting at 15:00 CET. This roundtable focuses on the first session, “The Bioeconomy: People, Planet, Policies” where a follow-up and discussions on the developments of recent national and regional Biostrategies and Bioinitiatives will be the center of this roundtable.

Insightful dialogue to be expected from our prestigious speakers, including:

• Ignasi Galindo, Responsible for External Relations, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food, Government of Catalonia
• Marisa Silva, Advisor to the Minister of Environment and Climate Action, Portugal
• Camille Bemerguy, Director of Climate Change, Environmental Services and Bioeconomy at the Pará Environment and Sustainability Secretariat, Brazil
• Julius Ecuru, Programme Manager at BioInnovate Africa
• Dr. Jorge Cano, Coordinator of the implementation of the Mission de Sabios’ Recommendations at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia

The Roundtable will be moderated by Dr. Christian Patermann and hosted by Mark Rushton and Jukka Kantola.

You can register to the roundtable at this link.