Training Webinar 4: Examples connected to trends in food
Wednesday, November 4; 9:00 – 9:45 am CET

POWER4BIO is organising a training webinar series about food and feed. In a set of eight thematic training webinars, experts from the POWER4BIO consortium will give insights about the current status of food and feed at EU level, innovative practices and keys for successful business cases, value chains, sustainability, funding opportunities and supporting policies. All webinars are free of charge and open to everyone.

In this fourth webinar session, examples will be shown that fill in demands connected to food trends.

Presenter: Jan Broeze (Wageningen Food & Biobased Research)

You can register for the training webinar on food and feed using this link. For more information, please visit our news entry about the webinar series.

If any questions remain, please feel free to contact Mr. Martien van den Oever: martien.vandenoever@wur.nl

Training Webinar 2: Technical examples on added value generation
Wednesday, October 28; 10:00 – 10:45 am CET

POWER4BIO is organising a training webinar series about food and feed. In a set of eight thematic training webinars, experts from the POWER4BIO consortium will give insights about the current status of food and feed at EU level, innovative practices and keys for successful business cases, value chains, sustainability, funding opportunities and supporting policies. All webinars are free of charge and open to everyone.

In the second webinar, a broad set of examples on valorisation of food processing side streams, extractions of valuable compounds from biomasses and new biomass production routes will be presented, driven by needs and opportunities within the agro-food system. Generally, these examples are oriented on cost price reduction (cheap sourcing from biomass side streams, waste reduction) and/or new markets. The examples have varying levels of technology readiness.

Presenter: Marieke Bruins (Wageningen Food & Biobased Research)

You can register for the training webinar on food and feed using this link. For more information, please visit our news entry about the webinar series.

If any questions remain, please feel free to contact Mr. Martien van den Oever: martien.vandenoever@wur.nl

Help SMEs capture investment: Make your mark on the design of MPowerBIO’s capacity building and business support programme.

Are you an investor, an expert within the bio based industry or a representative from an SME or a cluster, than your input is highly appreciated. Join MPowerBIO’s online co-creation workshop on 29 October to make your mark on the capacity building and business support programme, which are designed to enhance the investment readiness of SMEs.

– “We are seeking input from as many different actors in the field of bio-resources as possible. It can be companies, cluster organizations, market experts and investors. In the end our programmes must ensure that companies capture investment, it is therefore crucial that our business support and training materials are relevant and to the point. Validation from users and experts will give the final quality boost”, says Britt Sandvad, Project Coordinator of MPowerBIO.

MPowerBIO is a European project that has set out to empower 90 clusters within the bio-based industry across Europe to be better equipped to help SMEs overcome the challenge of finding sufficient investment to get from idea to business.

– “By developing an online platform with digital tools our goal is to get 250 SMEs one step closer to capturing investment. And this is where your input and feedback plays an important role”, Britt continues.

– “As an investor, you know what is expected from the SMEs seeking investment, as an SME you know what the typical challenges are and which qualifications are needed, as a cluster you know what the SMEs typically are seeking advice on and so on”.

To enhance the investment readiness of SMEs, MPowerBIO will offer training modules for clusters to be better equipped to help the SMEs. SMEs will be offered concrete tools through this online platform, which will improve the investment readiness and pitching skills. Finally, MPowerBIO will connect SMEs and investors by arranging regional and international events where SMEs have the opportunity to pitch their business plan.

By participating in the workshop you will, together with other experts, have the chance to influence the shape and content of two programmes, which ultimately bring SMEs one step closer to capturing investment. In other words, your input is key in improving the investment readiness of SMEs.

About the workshop
The workshop will be conducted online on 29 October and will run for approximately 2,5 hours. During the workshop, you will be introduced to the proposed concepts and findings so far, which we will need your feedback and thoughts on. Different sessions will run during the workshop to define SMEs curriculum concept and training needs, as well as to establish the services to be delivered by clusters through the business support programme to SMEs.

To learn more and register click here.

BLOOM online closing exhibition – free!

Save the date! – 9. December 2020, 9:00-11:30 and 14:00-16:30

• snapshots from the BLOOM project
• communicating bioeconomy
• bioeconomy in European regions
• school network and school box
• videos and outreach material
• interaction and discussion

Detailed information will follow soon.

The EU-Interreg project AlpBioEco works on bio-based products along the food value chain in the Alpine Space, promoting bioeconomy and sustainable regional development through eco-innovative business models. Within the project, several innovative business model blueprints were developed and tested. In this process, value chains were analysed, product prototypes developed and tested, and possibilities for the implementation of the business models in different regions were evaluated. Now, in the final phase of the AlpBioEco project, all those information and project results will be transferred into implementation and policy guidelines. These guidelines will promote the implementation of selected eco-innovative business models in different regions, but also allow the transfer to of the outcomes of the project to other projects and regions in the Alpine Space. To develop these policy and implementation guidelines, AlpBioEco’s project partners work with small “Regional Advisory Boards”, that consist of local stakeholders and experts, and focus on one business model in each region. The members of the Regional Advisory Board will add their own experiences and knowledge and thus contribute to more in-depth regional guidelines.

On Monday, 12th October 2020, the Regional Advisory Board workshop of AlpBioEco’s lead project partner City of Sigmaringen will take place online. The Regional Advisory Board will work on a business model to promote the marketing and commercial use of regional walnuts in the South of Germany.

For more information, please contact:
Anna Bäuerle
AlpBioEco project coordinator
City of Sigmaringen
alpbioeco@sigmaringen.de