The European Bioeconomy University – driven by demand, accomplished by intellectual leadership
The transition to the Bioeconomy is one of the major economic, social and environmental challenges facing the European Union in the coming years. The European Bioeconomy University will tackle this enormous challenge by educating a new generation of truly European experts, fostering rigorous, relevant and responsible research, and transferring knowledge into society and the economy.
The European Bioeconomy University is an alliance of the six leading European universities in this field. It will act not only as a think tank for knowledge generation, but also as a creative hub for knowledge transfer to transform diversity into creativity, support the European approach of democratic, transparent and participative processes and foster actual change in an innovative and sustainable way.
FOEBE study week in Bologna
Let’s go back in pictures to the summer school of the FOEBE students in Bologna, in Italy. FOEBE students trained online in bioeconomy entrepreneurship for 16 weeks, before finally coming together to create innovative projects in the bioeconomy. The first cohort of 20 FOEBE students, who met in-person for the very first time on Monday […]
Personal CG meeting at Wageningen University and Research
Last month, the EBU Alliance Coordination Group (CG) met in person at the wonderful campus of Wageningen University and Research (WUR). Thanks to our local hosts, the CG had the pleasure to get a tour of the campus, including discovering the new and almost energy neutral educational building AURORA. The CG was warmly welcomed by […]
A Call for contributions to a special Issue on “Sustainable Land-Based Bioeconomy Development”
Our estimated colleagues from BOKU (Dr. Stefanie Linser, Dr. Martin Greimel) and the University of Hohenheim (Prof. Dr. Andreas Pyka) are guest editors for a special issue of Land about “Sustainable Land-Based Bioeconomy Development”. Its aim is to provide a comprehensive compilation on current approaches and implementations of Bioeconomy strategies. Therefore, empirical research or conceptual […]
34 students from our 6 EBU Alliance Members divided into 6 interdisciplinary groups will have to identify a biomass or industrial by-product and imagine how they could be valorised further (e.g. biofuels, biobased chemicals or materials) in the context of the Bioeconomy. This challenge will help the students to think within a Circular economy understand […]