The Alliance for Skills and Knowledge to Widen Food Sector-related Open Innovation, Optimization and Development (ASKFOOD, www.askfood.net ), aims at setting, designing and developing tools and training actions and to leverage and boost innovation by strengthening the collaboration and cooperation among all the actors and stakeholders of the food related sectors.

In this workshop, experts from academia and organizations will present new trends and scenarios in the food-related sectors highlighting the future skills and competences to match the future job and market and business request.

Innovative training and educational methods to promote the development of entrepreneurial and professional skills will be presented.

Participants will have the opportunity to discuss future scenarios, innovative cooperation and networking activities that can be developed to promote the academia-business interaction towards the innovation of the food sector.

Free Registration

To register click here:

https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/2645617797197338635

The bioeconomy has great potential to reduce our dependence on non-renewable, unsustainable resources, and help achieve carbon neutrality. In the future more and more everyday products will be made from materials of biological origin.

But is ‘bio-based’ always sustainable? How should product sustainability be measured? And do consumers care either way?

This webinar will aim to provide some answers, with presentations from experts in the bio-based sector.

AGENDA AND REGISTRATION

Visit: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/1612551854702397197

BIO4PRODUCTS PROJECT

This webinar is being organised by Greenovate! Europe as part of the Bio4Products project, which is testing the feasibility of a fast pyrolysis based biorefinery concept. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 723070.

The webinar is the fourth and final webinar in the series ‘From biomass to bio-based products’. You can re-watch the previous webinars here: https://youtu.be/39P7Sb3IkHg

The BBI JU ICT-BIOCHAIN project has the pleasure to invite you to our webinar `Train-the-trainer´, where the outcomes of the project will be delivered by our team on the 2^nd of April at 11:00 h CET.

In this event, the project STAR-ProBio, which is finalising this month, will also introduce the best practices and lessons learned during its development.

The general objective of the webinar is to introduce bioeconomy regions and stakeholders to the BBIJU ICT-BIOCHAIN and STAR-ProBio projects.

The ICT-BIOCHAIN project aims to promote the adoption of ICT solutions, IoT and industry strategies 4.0 in order to improve the logistics of biomass in the region through the development of regional ‘Digital Innovation Hubs’ across the European Bioeconomy regions. The platform developed in the project will also be launched.

The STAR-ProBio project covers gaps in the existing framework for sustainability assessment of bio-based products, and improve consumer acceptance for bio-based products by identifying the critical sustainability issues in their value chains.

The agenda of the event is as follows:

11:00 – 11:05 Welcome and introduction

11:05 – 11:15 ICT-BIOCHAIN & the two ready-made, test-bed bioeconomy regions

11:15 – 11:25 STAR-ProBio

11:25 – 11:35 The ICT-BIOCHAIN Platform

11:35 – 11:45 The STAR-ProBio Sustainability assessment tools

11:45 – 11:55 Conclusion and roadmap overview

11:55 – 12:00 Q&A

If you are interested in participating, please, register here. The project will send you the information for connection the day before the webinar.

How to develop bioeconomy online ?

Current world events have directed us more and more to online working from home and this has created a growing need for alternative solutions for working. How about in the field of bioeconomy ? How can you do transnational innovation and development work if travelling is out of options ?

Interreg Baltic Sea funded RDI2CluB -project has a one solution: an online platform for open bioeconomy innovation – Biobord.eu

Biobord’s mission is to bring together bioeconomy developers to a joint table to solve global and local challenges with bioeconomy innovations. Biobord connects bioeconomy innovation networks around the Baltic Sea Region to share ideas, find partners and work together to create business opportunities. Together we build knowledge and raise awareness on sustainable and viable bioeconomy business potential in Baltic Sea Region.

Biobord offers an open discussion forum that includes matchmaking possibilities, transnational networking, knowledge sharing, joint innovation, a place to announce bioeconomy webinars and many other ways to co-operate with our growing network.

The transnational network consists at this moment of six regions around Baltic Sea Region: Finland, Norway, Poland, Latvia, Estonia and as a latest addition Sweden. Biobord has a vast amount of knowledge from many different fields of bioeconomy, and there are members representing all aspects (local authorities, SME’s …). The network and its knowledge, online tools and the open innovation atmosphere is now in you use!

Registering is easy and doesn’t cost a thing.

Biobord can be used anywhere and anytime with a computer or a mobile device, all you need is an online connection. Perhaps, it is time to move the bioeconomy innovation to an online form as well ?

Contacts:
Riikka Kumpulainen
Project Manager RDI2CluB
The Institute of Bioeconomy, Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences
riikka.kumpulainen@jamk.fi
Biobord: @riikkakumpulainen

Due to the recent problems of the spread of the #COVID19, the Biovoices MML workshop has been postponed. Save the new date: 30 June 2020 | Ghent, Belgium

The main objective of the workshop, organised by the BIOVOICES and BBEU Pilot Plant, is the identification of needs and actions to fill existing gaps in the bio-based products development from laboratories to market. In general, SMEs and start-ups working in the development of promising bio-based solutions or processes need to establish partnerships to reach successfully the market. Testing activities in operational environment, demonstration at large scale, compliance with existing standards and regulations, consumers’ acceptability, financial resources for the product industrialisation are some of the issues that companies have to face in the scaling-up stage. BBEU Pilot Plant has developed good practices to help companies in crossing the “valley of the death”, and can also help them in establishing partnerships, networking with various stakeholders, etc. Speakers – representing quadruple helix stakeholders – will address the topic from their different perspectives presenting best practices and highlighting existing challenges and barriers. Thanks to the active participation of the audience, involved both in the roundtable through interactive tools and in the following MML workshop, the event will co-create and generate ideas to improve the bio-based products marketability. Recommendations collected will be part of the policy brief that will be presented to the European Commission and the European Parliament by the end of the project (December 2020). Finally, participants will have the occasion to concretely understand the opportunities that a pilot plant can offer thanks to the site visite of the BBEU Pilot Plant.

More info and agenda:

https://www.biovoices-platform.eu/registeredarea/mmls/viewMml/6428

REGISTER USING THIS LINK:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bio-economy-research2market-crossing-the-valley-of-death-hand-in-hand-with-a-pilot-plant-tickets-94190186383