On April 21, 2020 at 10:00 CEST it will be held the interactive online workshop titled “Creation of a Chain of Native Wool in Italy” organized, in the context of the EU funded projects Biobridges and BIOVOICES, in collaboration with the University of Bari.
The workshop aims at creating a new supply chain for the valorisation of native Italian wool and provide innovative solutions to solve current problems.

During the workshop case studies and good practices will be presented, challenges, barriers and opportunities to promote the development of the supply chain that enhances the use of native wool will be identified and discussed aith the audience.
The workshop will be practical and aimed at generating ideas and stimulating possible collaborations among the participating stakeholders and promoting the sustainable and circular development of the bioeconomy in the Italian reality.

The event will be held in Italian.

More info and registration HERE

The Bio-Based Industries Consortium (BIC) invites stakeholders and society for a public consultation on the new draft strategic agenda for research and innovation for 2030 (SIRA2030).

The draft SIRA2030, published in March, describes the main technology and innovation challenges for the coming years, towards a sustainable and competitive bio-based industry in Europe. It is a step-by-step plan for achieving the ambitions that BIC together with 15 partner organizations published in 2019 in the vision document ‘The circular bio-society in 2050’. This includes:

• Developing new business models involving strategic partners, such as primary and market sectors, more;
• Accelerate the commercialization of sustainable solutions in a circular bio-economy;
• Setting up climate neutral operations to combat climate change;
• Establish new purchasing and consumption patterns for a circular bio society.

The main changes compared to SIRA 2020 are the introduction of end markets (consumers, society as a whole), a better integration of primary sectors in the design of value chains, the increasing role and impact of digitization and the circularity of bio-based value chains.

Substantive contribution

This SIRA2030 was drawn up using input from four task forces with BIC members and the 15 organizations that support the Vision 2050. The advisory bodies of the BBI JU also made a substantive contribution.

Details of the new Horizon Europe innovation program (successor to Horizon 2020) and the European Commission’s underlying European Green Deal are not yet final. And investigations into the availability of bio-waste and into the quantitative contributions of the biobased industry to the UN SDGs and associated KPIs are also currently in a final phase. In the meantime, the draft of SIRA2030 has already been submitted to the European Commission and the public stakeholder consultation.

All relevant stakeholders and society are invited to contribute to the development of the SIRA2030, by participating in a public consultation. BIC will bundle the results of this consultation on an anonymous basis in a report to be published on its website.

Ultimately, in order to implement the agenda, BIC, together with the European Commission, wants to create a new public-private partnership under Horizon Europe. This can build on the performance of the current Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU).

Participation in the public consultation is possible until April 30, 2020. For more information and registration, see the BIC website.

Source: https://www.agro-chemistry.com/news/bic-opens-public-consultation-on-new-research-agenda/

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On 31 March 2020, another AlpBioEco Focus Group Workshop about eco-innovative business models in the value chain of herbs in the Alpine Region will take place online!
This Focus Group Workshop is about a previously developed eco-innovative business model concept, that centers around the product “herbal pacifier”. On 31 March 2020, invited industry experts and researchers will discuss, validate and further develop this pre-selected eco-innovative business model concept. The webinar is organised by the AlpBioEco project partner, ITKAM, the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Germany.

Join a series of four thematic webinars across March and April, organized by the BBI JU funded projects LIFT, UrBioFuture, CELEBIO, in collaboration with BIOVOICES, Biobridges and the European Bioeconomy Network, to provide recommendations and Actionable Knowledge for quadruple helix stakeholders.

The thematic webinars will take place every Wednesday from the 25 of March 2020 and are expected to stimulate the discussion toward the BBI JU Info day (22 April 2020 https://www.bbi-europe.eu/events/bbi-ju-info-day-2020), though the following questions:

• What are the challenges to be addressed for the creation of an innovation ecosystem for the Bioeconomy?
• What are the main results of the Coordination and Support Actions funded in the last years?
• What gaps should be bridged?
• What are the recommendations?

The webinars will deliver the main results stemming from assessing more than 60 EU-funded projects, scouting more than 250 project documents, interviewing some 40 project coordinators and running four workshops involving 38 projects during the BBI JU Stakeholder Forum.

How to participate? You can participate to a single webinar, based on your specific interest or to all of them. Please let us know, registering HERE.

The participants will be able to contribute to the discussion? Sure! We encourage this! The participants will be able to contribute realtime using ICT platforms and tools made available by the organizers. LIFT will integrate the outcomes of this discussion in the final recommendations of the project.

Let`s meet online for biotech 

 KETBIO offers a series of virtual events

• WEBINAR: Earthworms, water fleas and bacteria: the future of decentralised wastewater treatment   – 18 March 2020, 03:00 pm (CET)

         Register: https:// www. ketbio.eu/resource?id=6851&app=info

• KETBIO ONLINE  MARKETPLACE: Find partners – launch offers & requests – listen  19 March 2020, 10.00 am – 03.00 pm (CET) –

            Register: https://www.ketbio.eu/collaboration?id=6826&app=info

• WEBINAR: From wastewater to new bioeconomy values using innovative bio-based solutions-  24 March 2020, 11.00 am CET –

         Register: https://ketbio.eu/resource?id=6712&app=info