Conceptually speaking, the first results for objective A should help shape sustainable biomass systems thanks to literature reviews, data collection or first experiments. However, the following steps will be applied to actual biomass systems (poultry production chains, marginal lands, waste management), which will test the relevance of the proposed approach.
A real challenge is in contributing to answering objective B, a very integrative one. Research on innovative issues all along the value chains, from biochemical identification to business models, passing through methodological and conceptual issues, is performed. Each research track is building consistent answers to elementary issues from this objective of new and resilient bioproducts value-chains.
Since sustainability assessment is a complex issue, objective C is approached from contrasted standpoints: building hybrid models linking Life Cycle Analysis and agricultural carbon modelling, integrating the tricky issue of biodiversity approached by virtual reality, dealing with a large database for top-down assessment, the last one being a combination of scientific and practical approaches to deal with multicriteria assessment. However, the shared choice is that these preliminary scientific works are contributing to combining consistent methodology and tools for relevant sustainability assessment.
To contribute to objective D, complementary approaches are used: bioeconomy governance at different decision levels, innovative policies for sustainable biomass production, and biomass production management connected to biomass production systems' sustainability. The first steps produced scientific frameworks to define the case studies. The next steps would be to challenge these scientific approaches to “real-life” bioeconomical systems.
Most researchers began their work between October 2024 and January 2025. Therefore, they have mostly dealt with literature reviews, data collections and treatments. However, regarding objective E, following the year of training (with research schools and workshops), they have been more vocal in giving feedback on the past events and have proposed several lectures or events to be included in their collective training plan. This has led to the creation of a team of dynamic young researchers around complex aspects of bioeconomy, from molecular to territorial issues. They have built, through continuous debates, a collective driving force, acting positively to reach their individual and collective goals. A first achievement is the collaboration, in progress, to produce two joint papers, one on the role of youth in the bioeconomy (four young researchers involved, at the heart of the future bioeconomy system), and the other a very ambitious paper on the importance of transdisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity in bioeconomy research (15 young researchers involved, helped by several professors). Therefore, it seems that the observed positive dynamic of the young, helped by the supervisors and the industrial partners embedded in DESTINY, is on the way to contribute meaningfully to reaching the aim of creating new “bioeconomists”.
