Objective
The main objective of BioRural is to create a pan-European Rural Bioeconomy Network under which related stakeholders will cooperate to promote the currently available small-scale bio-based solutions in rural areas to increase the share of Bioeconomy, giving increased value in such remote areas. Such framework will contribute in bridging the gap between the available novel high-end bio-based solutions and the everyday European rural life by assessing the existing situation of European rural Bioeconomy, capturing grassroots-level needs and ideas, promoting effective exchange of knowledge and information and investigating the possible opportunities for regional development through the expansion of bio-based solutions integration in rural Europe. This way, BioRural will develop a transition framework towards a sustainable, regenerative, inclusive and just circular Bioeconomy across all Europe at local and regional scale and support innovators to scale-up inclusive and small-scale bio-based solutions in rural areas. To do so, the project will: (i) Assess and evaluate the current performance of the European rural Bioeconomy in the EU and identify factors affecting innovation adoption and diffusion of bio-based solutions in rural areas; (ii) Create four regional Rural Bioeconomy Platforms (RBPs) that will form a European Rural Bioeconomy Network (ERBN); (iii) Assess and promote success stories of bio-based solutions in rural areas; (iv) Develop and continuously optimise an online open stakeholders’ tool, named BioRural Toolkit; (v) Facilitate knowledge exchange and capacity building for the European rural Bioeconomy through a series of workshops in local, regional and European level; (vi) Create rural development blueprints for regional and business scale-up of resilient and circular bio-based solutions in rural areas and (vii) Disseminate and communicate all activities for maximum visibility and rural Bioeconomy expansion.
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HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedCoordinator
57001 Thermi Thessaloniki
Greece
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Participants (18)
6708 PV Wageningen
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
35000 Rennes
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14123 Ifs
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
66115 Saarbruecken
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8000 Aarhus C
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24 100 Pulawy
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LT-44248 Kaunas
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3001 Jelgava
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47004 Valladolid
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3004-531 Coimbra
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3220 119 Miranda Do Corvo
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
00196 Roma
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570 01 Thermi Thessaloniki
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546 33 Thessaloniki
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1000 Ljubljana
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1231 Ljubljana
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The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.
520064 Sfantu Gheorghe Covasna
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1000 Skopje, Karposh
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