Background Changes in food production and consumption are key to limiting global warming, soil erosion and biodiversity loss on the one hand and human health on the other. The necessary transformation processes are complex and require both a food system perspective aligning sustainable food production systems with healthy diets and coherent food policies across the […]

The 10th International Degrowth Conference and the 15th Conference of the European Society for Ecological Economics (ESEE) will be held in the city of Pontevedra (Galicia, Spain) from 18 – 21 June 2024. This joint conference is part of the  “Pontevedra ESEE-Degrowth 2024” activities, which will establish Pontevedra as the European capital of degrowth in […]

The series of these conferences has been organised and established by the European Commission 1980 (Brighton, UK). The conference started as a purely scientific event. Over the years as biomass use as feedstock for bioenergy and fuels increased steadily, the industrial aspect was introduced to the conference. A technology exhibition was introduced in 1996. In […]

World Bio Markets 2024 is the leading bioeconomy conference and business event for the global community. The World Bio Markets conference will connect over 450 bioeconomy leaders with a two day programme of pre-arranged 1-2-1 commercial meetings, knowledge exchange, and networking opportunities in order to accelerate the transition to a fossil-free economy. The event connects […]

The over-arching theme for the 2024 Congress will be “Grand Challenges for Biotechnology: Health; Food Security; and Global Warming”. To meet these challenges will require close cooperation between Industry, Academia, Research Institutes and national governments. The scientific programme will therefore focus on how to translate front line research into commercially viable applications. The Dutch Biotechnology […]

“Accelerating Forest Solutions through Innovation'' The 9th World Forest Week provides  the forest community with a unique opportunity to exchange ideas, showcase best practices and on-the-ground actions, and contribute to international debates on forestry and environmental issues. It will feature a series of events and exhibitions bringing together FAO Members, partner organizations, youth and members of […]

Agroecosystems in Transformation: Visions, Technologies and Actors​​​​​ The conference will focus on the future of agricultural landscapes and the role of technology and actors in their transformation. In particular, discussions will focus on the synergies and trade-offs between different environmental goals such as preventing biodiversity loss, adapting to climate change, conserving soils and their functions, […]

ART-ER, as partner of the Enterprise Europe Network, is organising, together with Circular Bioeconomy Cluster SPRING and Innovhub-SSI, the 14th edition of IFIB - International Forum on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioeconomy, aimed at strengthening the bioeconomy network in the Euro-Mediterranean area and to promote partnerships. The topic of the Forum is circular bioeconomy, with particular attention to industrial biotechnology as Key Enabling Technology. […]

The objective of this Mutual Learning Workshop is to share and exchange about the work developed by several EU funded project projects, aimed at generating tools to support the creation and/or consolidation of regional governance mechanisms in circular bioeconomy, allowing to: • learn from these projects’ experience, • assess possible synergies among the different tools developed […]