BIOEAST – Objectives

The overall objective of BIOEASTsUP project is to support the BIOEAST initiative in the implementation of its Vision for 2030 and Action Plan for transition of 11 Central and Eastern European (CEE) to bioeconomy. This will be done by engaging the relevant stakeholders, accenting sustainable circular bioeconomy on the CEE governments’ agenda improving macro-regional cooperation formats with downstream and upstream linkages of agri-food sector, and supporting national bioeconomy strategies development. The project will advance the BIOEAST initiative to become a catalyst for a research and innovation, rural development and other policies towards bioeconomy development in the CEE by creation of favourable inter-sectoral framework for sustainable deployment of biomass potential.

SO1: To trigger strategic thinking at governmental level and transnational peer-to-peer development of national circular bioeconomy strategies in BIOEAST countries.

SО2: To emphasize and encourage the role of multi-stakeholder and multi-actor approaches as well as co-creation of innovation in developing new value chains to advance bioeconomies.

SO3: To develop a bottom-up stakeholder driven approach for a consolidated bioeconomy Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) for the BIOEAST countries by defining the scope, goals and action plan.

SO4: To set-up and maintain a macro-regional framework to set-up and develop the BIOEAST SRIA and action plan.

SO5: To facilitate evidence-based policy making by addressing the need to collect and aggregate bioeconomy-relevant statistical, administrative quantitative and qualitative data.

SO6: To increase the visibility of the bioeconomy within the quintuple helix in the BIOEAST region.

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