Next April 26th from 9.30 to 16.30 CET, Deloitte, empirica and Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini (FGB) will organise an online participatory workshop together with the European Commission’s DG Research & Innovation (DG RTD), as part of its study on “Promoting education, training and skills across the bioeconomy”. 

Workshop objectives
The workshop aims to gather a wide-range of stakeholders in the field of bioeconomy education training and skills (education institutions, private and public sector, academics and scientists) in order to discuss:

• the preliminary analysis and key findings of the study

• the development of recommendations and model bioeconomy modules/curricula at higher education, VET and entrepreneurship levels, to educate and train a workforce to be equipped with the skills required in an evolving, circular and sustainable bioeconomy.

Moderated by Joanna Inglis-Dupont, this highly interactive one-day online workshop will welcome renowned speakers in the field of bioeconomy education and skills.
Participants will also have multiple occasions to exchange with the study team and to meet with peers.

Registration opened!
Click here for more information and to register.
The registration will be open until 14 April at 23:59 CET, but the spots are limited.

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.

The Allthings.bioPRO project is developing a serious game and a mobile app to enable citizens to learn and to express their interests and preferences about bio-based products. Ultimately, these tools will generate data and insights for stakeholders to boost the bioeconomy.

We believe that these data and insights could be interesting for you! Curious to find out more? Our Data Value Labs offer an opportunity for you to engage in an interactive and in-depth discussion on how these outputs could be of value for your work as policymaker, researcher, industry actor or civil society organisation in the bioeconomy field.

Each of our  in-person data labs focusses on one of the Allthings.bioPRO mission themes:

• Kids & schools – Wednesday 27th April 2022, 14-16 CET (details available here)
• Food packaging – Thursday 28th April 2022, 10-12 CET  (detailes available here)
• Fashion & textiles – Thursday 28th April 2022, 14-16 CET (details available here)
• Jobs & careers – Friday 29th April 2022, 10-12 CET (details available here)

The format of our event has been changed, from in-version to hybrid, allowing stakeholders from outside the ‘EU bubble’ as well to attend one / multiple sessions online.

Please note that 1) the workshops will be held in English and 2) that participants should be potential users of the data coming out of the game and app (i.e. policymakers, industry actors, civil society organisations, researchers, media, etc.), and not as such the users of the game or app itself (i.e. citizens / consumers).

If you wish to participate, please fill in the registration form by 15 April 2022 to secure your participation.

Register for the event

In case of any questions or queries, please do not hesitate to reach out to the organising team at Prospex Institute via Michiel Dewagtere or Amanda Oliveira Puerari

Venue:
Online: details will follow after registration
At location: NH Hotel Brussels – EU Berlaymont, Boulevard Charlemagne – Karel de Grotelaan 11-19, 1000 Brussels.

On behalf of the European Commission, empirica is carrying out a survey on future skills in higher education for the bioeconomy in Europe. All  the experts in this field or in charge of providing or coordinating bioeconomy-related education at a higher education institution are invited to participate and fill in the questionnaire at the following link.

The results will help the European Commission develop policies to improve bioeconomy-related higher education.

Last March 15th 2022 the EuBioNet organized the workshop “Paving the way towards Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education“, in collaboration with Transition2Bio, the European Community of Practice for Bioeconomy Education, BIOSKILLS, BIOBec and the European Bioeconomy University (EBU).

This workshop involved projects and initiatives interested in the intersection of Entrepreneurship Education (EE) and Sustainable Education (SE), with a special focus on circular and sustainable bioeconomy. The aim was to identify how the cross-fertilisation of EE and SE can help design educational curricula and extra-curricular activities for sustainability-minded entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

Format
During the workshop several projects and initiatives were involved in the presentation of inspirational case studies in order to share good practices and increase knowledge about the topic in a mutual learning activity. An interactive discussion enabled to collect suggestions and inputs in order to generate ideas towards Sustainable Entrepreneurship Education.

The Agenda is available at this link.

Results
The results of the workshop are available for consultation and you can read the report here.
Find at this link the PDF collecting all the contributions from the speakers and the participants.
You can also download the PDF of the contributions collected in the MIRO board at this link.
The recordings of the entire workshop are available here.