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.

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.