BE-RURAL: BIO-BASED STRATEGIES AND ROADMAPS FOR ENHANCED RURAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE EU

Duration of the project: 1.04.2019-31.07.2022

Budget: 2 996 289 Euro

Donor institution/programme: Horizon 2020

Goals: 

• To support modest and moderate innovator countries in the development of regional bioeconomy strategies and roadmaps.
• To increase awareness and understanding of the bioeconomy, its potentials and impacts among regional actors by considering stakeholders’ and citizens’ needs and concerns.
• To mobilize engagement among regional stakeholders and citizens in view of the development of inclusive and balanced bioeconomy strategies and roadmaps, with a focus on the exchange of knowledge and good practices across European regions.
• To explore small-scale business models and their market potentials which are suitable for realising bio-based innovations across different bioeconomy sectors.
• To build capacity among regional stakeholders with regard to the assessment of innovative bio-based business models and their potential impacts, the fostering of R&I capacities, the design of a supportive policy framework, and effective utilization of available funding streams.
• To identify and disseminate good practices and facilitate knowledge sharing across European regions.
• To generate new knowledge on the effective development of regional bioeconomy strategies and roadmaps and make that knowledge available for uptake in policy processes in other regions across Europe.
• Target groups           local, regional, national authorities and consumer organisations
• academic, educational and research institutions
• different types of cooperating companies

Partners:

• Ecologic Institut gemeinnützige GmbH, Germany (lead partners)
• Bulgarian Industrial Association /BIA/
• University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland
• Wirtschaft und Infrastruktur GmbH & Co Planungs-KG, Germany
• BIOCOM AG             
• Macedonian Section of the International Centre for Sustainable Development of Energy, Water and Environment Systems (SWEDES-Skopje), Macedonia
• Institute for Economic Forecasting, Romania
• Latvian State Forest Research Institute "Silava", Latvia
• National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, Poland

Geographical area of intervention: 1 International

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STRATEGY FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE BIOECONOMY IN STARA ZAGORA REGION