Project description
Building eco-friendly bioeconomy strategies in Southern Europe
The southern Mediterranean European regions struggle to integrate ecological limits into their bioeconomy strategies. This challenge is compounded by varying levels of regional development, particularly in Cyprus, Slovenia, Greece and Portugal. The need for sustainable practices is critical as these areas strive to balance economic growth with environmental preservation. Without effective frameworks, regional competitiveness and innovation capacity lag behind. The EU-funded BioINSouth project aims to address this by developing guidelines and digital tools that are safe and sustainable. By establishing regional hubs and uniting stakeholders, BioINSouth will foster sustainable bio-based activities and contribute to the EU’s fair and green transition. This methodology will be demonstrated in eight regions, promoting broader adoption post-project.
Objective
The BioINSouth project aims to support decision-makers to incorporate considerations of ecological limits into their regional bioeconomy strategies and roadmaps, when it comes to circular bio-based activities. The project aims to develop guidelines and digital tools, considering the safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) assessment framework, to support the adoption of innovative methodologies to assess environmental impacts in multiple industrial bio-based systems, increasing regional competitiveness and innovation capacity, and contributing to the EU fair & green transition.
The project will focus on Southern Mediterranean European Regions with particular attention to regions currently lagging behind, i.e. regions in widening Countries, such as Cyprus, Slovenia, Greece, and Portugal, while the project will see the wider participation of other Southern Mediterranean Countries, including Spain, France and Italy and international cooperation with Turkey and Argentina (in the advisory board).
Thanks to the experience of the BIOEAST initiative that BIOEAST HUB CZ brings in, BioINSouth will reach the main objective by establishing regional HUBs bringing together a broad range of stakeholders, including policymakers and public authorities, expert voices, market actors (especially SMEs) and civil society (especially NGOs). The methodology will also seek the collaboration and exchange of best practices among the HUBs within a macro-regional BioINSouth Network and with international organisations.
The concept will be demonstrated in 8 regions in the partners’ Countries, under a fully transferable case-study approach, that can be replicated throughout other Southern European Regions after the end of the project.
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.
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