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 a new 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.
Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership: FOstering Entrepreurship for the BioEconomy (FOEBE)
The FOEBE strategic partnership, lead by AgroParisTech, aims at tackling the skills mismatch in current entrepreneurship training programmes. Bioeconomy students at Master’s and PhD levels will be equipped with tailor-made sustainable entrepreneurship skills and qualification portfolios. The general approach of FOEBE revolves around a blended learning format which combines e-learning and face-to-face sessions, with an […]
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Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership: EBU student journey – Bioeconomy qualification supplement
The EBU student journey partnership, led by the University of Hohenheim, aims at developing and implementing a “Bioeconomy qualification supplement” and offers the “EBU Student journey” for master students. This joint educational strategy focuses on complementing existing master curricula at the institutions of the EBU alliance with inter- and transdisciplinary, cross-sectoral collaboration, problem-solving, sustainability competences […]
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Open Special Issue Call
Check out two exciting special issue calls on bioeconomy: The Journal of Innovation Economics & Management on calls for contributions on “The bio-economy: innovations and diversity of development models” More information: http://bit.ly/3iCz8Ua The journal Sustainability is currently running a special issue entitled „Making the transition to a circular bioeconomy sustainable and inclusive“. More information: bit.ly/2VY0GtA
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Summary report on “Inclusive & Sustainable Circular Bioeconomy” published
The Social Scientific Biosociety Research Network (SOBIO) from our EBU member University of Eastern Finland (UEF), has published a summary report on its roundtable about “Inclusive and Sustainable Circular Bioeconomy“. The event took place in December 2019. The summary report proposes some key requirements and approaches to assure an improved social integration into the EU […]
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