The online workshop “Young people for Mediterranean cooperation” will take place on the 13^th of October from 11.30 to 13.00 CEST in the framework of the European Week of Regions and Cities.

As 2022 marks the European Year of Youth, the workshop aims to showcase inspiring cooperation stories of young people from both sides of the Mediterranean – including representatives of ENI CBC Med projects – and celebrate their contribution to positive and constructive Euro-Mediterranean relations. To find out more information about the event, please visit the Programme website.

If you wish to attend the event, you can register at your earliest convenience at the following link: https://bit.ly/3SiZiNn (Workshop code – 13WS22471). You will need to create an account and then add the event to your agenda but it only takes a few minutes.

The European Commission launched a survey to collect data on food loss and waste prevention initiatives along the whole food supply chain.

This survey aims to collect relevant information on both ongoing and concluded food waste prevention initiatives in order to analyse their efficiency, effectiveness, and impacts. This information will allow us to identify those initiatives that delivered the best results.

The deadline to participate and provide inputs is 3 October 2022.

On Thursday 15 September 2022 from 9.00 to 17:00 CET, Deloitte, empirica and Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (FGB) organised a Conference, together with the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research & Innovation (DG RTD), as part of the project on “Promoting education, training and skills across the bioeconomy”.

During the conference the results of the project and the recommendations for the development of education at higher education, VET and entrepreneurship levels,  were presented and discussed in order to empower the future workforce with the skills required in an evolving, circular and sustainable bioeconomy.

The results are now publicly available and you can download all the material at the following links:

Policy brief

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/da7a3790-330c-11ed-975d-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-266382205

The bioeconomy, as a catalyst for systemic change, tackles the economic, social and environmental aspects of the European Green Deal, seeking new ways of producing and consuming resources while respecting our planet’s limits and moving away from a linear economy based on extensive use of fossil and mineral resources. As defined in the European Commission’s updated Bioeconomy Strategy of 2018, the bioeconomy covers “all sectors and systems that rely on biological resources (animals, plants, micro-organisms and derived biomass, including organic waste), their functions and principles. It includes and interlinks land and marine ecosystems and the services they provide; all primary production sectors that use and produce biological resources; and all economic and industrial sectors that use biological resources and processes to produce food, feed, bio-based products, energy and services.” The transition to a sustainable and circular bioeconomy will be achieved through the five goals of the EU Bioeconomy Strategy: Ensuring food and nutrition security; Managing natural resources sustainably; Reducing dependence on non-renewable, unsustainable resources; Limiting and adapting to climate change; Strengthening European competitiveness and create jobs. This transition presents opportunities for jobs and economic growth. In particular, the Bioeconomy Strategy forecasts that one million new jobs could be created by 2030, supported by the “strong and fast-growing start-up ecosystem in the biotechnology sector”.

Final report

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/6a5f6dd4-3312-11ed-975d-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-266382552

This is the Final Report of the study on “Promoting education, training and skills across the bioeconomy” conducted by Deloitte, Empirica and Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini Srl SB (FGB), mandated by the European Commission’s DG Research & innovation (DG RTD). The study assesses the current and future (2030 and 2050) needs for professional profiles and skills, bringing together a quantitative forecast exercise and a qualitative ‘foresight’ activity, which incorporates expert insights on the future of the bioeconomy. This assessment is compared against the current education and training provision in the bioeconomy at three levels: higher education, vocational education and training, and entrepreneurship training. This comparison highlights key unmet training needs that need to be addressed to realise the opportunities that the bioeconomy can provide in the future. Recommendations are provided for each of the education levels to address these skills needs, including model curricula which draw on case studies of good practices. These recommendations cover both the content of model curricula, as well as approaches to developing and updating programmes to meet the changing needs of the bioeconomy.

Factsheets:

Higher education

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/82c681fc-2fef-11ed-975d-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-265943753

Europe needs more professionals with dedicated skills to drive the transition to a sustainable and circular bioeconomy, a core component of the Green Deal. A study was made to support the development of educational and training content, methods, tools and structures to achieve a mainstreaming of the bioeconomy in education and training. The following recommendations aim to promote upskilling and reskilling bioeconomy professionals to meet this challenge.

Vocational education and training

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/8898756d-2ff1-11ed-975d-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-265943548

Europe needs more people with the skills needed to drive the transition to a sustainable and circular bioeconomy, a core component of the Green Deal. A study was undertaken to support the development of educational and training content, methods, tools and structures to achieve a mainstreaming of the bioeconomy in education and training. It includes recommendations to train people to work in the bioeconomy.

Entrepreneurship education

https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/e98d595a-2fee-11ed-975d-01aa75ed71a1/language-en/format-PDF/source-search

Europe needs more professionals with dedicated entrepreneurship skills to drive the transition to a sustainable and circular bioeconomy, a core component of the Green Deal. A study was made to support the development of educational and training content, methods, tools and structures to achieve a mainstreaming of the bioeconomy in education and training. It includes recommendations that aim to promote upskilling and reskilling bioeconomy professionals to meet this challenge.

This is an in person event in Spanish, which will take place in two towns in Guadalajara (Spain). It is about obtaining bioproducts from Cistus Ladanifer, a very common species in the Mediterranean countries. The rest of the info is in Spanish.

For more info, check our website:

And you can download the program here.

Are you a EU funded project involved in bioeconomy communication, education and stakeholder engagement? Do you want to share your outcomes, or presenting your newly funded project during this workshop?

Next 5 October from 9.00 to 12.30 CET at the EC Building CDMA (Address: Rue du Champ de Mars 21, 1050 Ixelles / Elsene, Belgium), the European Bioeconomy Network, in collaboration with the European Commission and the projects Transition2Bio, BIOEASTsUP, BIObec and BioGov.net, is organizing a Mobilisation and Mutual learning workshop, as satellite event of the High Level Bioeconomy Conference, taking place on the 6 and 7 October 2022.

The workshop “Projects2Projects” will maximise the exploitation of lessons learnt and heritage of H2020 bioeconomy projects in communication, education and stakeholder engagement to effectively kick-off the newly funded Horizon Europe ones.

The workshop is free of charge – Registration is mandatory.

Register at this link.

Updated agenda at this link.

Expected outcomes

Improve the quality and impact of communication and stakeholders engagement activities for the next months, facilitating collaboration among ongoing, concluded  and recently funded projects

Format

Mobilisation and Mutual Learning workshop:

• brief presentations of success stories from different projects, with a special focus on exploitable assets
• walking brainstorm thematic sessions

The session will be organized in four thematic working groups around specific topics:

• bioeconomy communication and education/future skills for the bioeconomy
• enabling the bioeconomy ecosystem at European, National and Regional level (governance perspective)
• enabling the bioeconomy ecosystem at European, National and Regional level (boost circular economy and bioeconomy sectors perspective)
• standardisation, certification, labelling and monitoring

Target participants

• Partners of the European Bioeconomy Network
• Other EU funded projects
• CBE JU/EC

Write to Susanna Albertini – albertini@fvaweb.it for further information.