Kick-off meeting of the Project BIO-Boost

Global challenges like climate change and land ecosystem degradation, coupled with a growing population, force us to seek new ways of producing and consuming that respect the ecological boundaries of our planet. To tackle these challenges, we must improve and innovate how we produce and consume food, products, and materials within healthy ecosystems through a sustainable bioeconomy.

A sustainable European bioeconomy supports the modernization and strengthening of the EU industrial base by creating new value chains and greener, more cost effective industrial processes.

However, it is necessary to move beyond research and innovation and have a strategic and systemic approach to deploying innovations to fully reap the economic, social, and environmental benefits of the bioeconomy. Such an approach should bring together all actors across territories and value chains to map the needs and actions to be taken.

Our Horizon Europe funded Project BIO-Boost will increase the latent potential of the participating innovation agencies, to learn from leading innovator regions, and cement this knowledge and experience in the organizations, building and expanding networks, expanding the cooperation and enlarging the participation of more diverse innovation stakeholders and territories to existing successful initiatives in the bioeconomy.

The corresponding proposal was submitted under the CSA topic Interconnected Innovation Ecosystems (HORIZON-EIE-2022-CONNECT-01).

On 7th of February 2023 Kick-off meeting of Project BIO-Boost was organized, and now BIO-Boost is officially up and running!