Services for regions

BIO2REG offers a range of support services to participating regions to facilitate bioeconomy capacity building and knowledge dissemination in different European regions. It targets regional stakeholders throughout Europe, both within the consortium and externally.

A key success factor for BIO2REG’s impactful capacity building in different regions is the consideration of structural and contextual regional specifics and their regional stakeholders. Regions’ potential to transform into a model region for bioeconomy depends on characteristics such as their economic structure, quantity and quality of biological resources (plants, animals, microorganisms and derived biomass, including organic waste production), agricultural and industrial structure, region-specific requirements for the protection of natural resources including their ecosystem services, and stakeholder types. Furthermore, regional framework conditions differ vastly with regards to political, economic, social, technological, environmental and legal factors. These region-specific factors are considered in the following BIO2REG services:

  • Bioeconomy potential

    BIO2REG provides tools to identify regional bioeconomy potential. The bioeconomy is understood in a systemic way. With its cross-sectoral orientation, it penetrates the entire economy, thus affecting different policy areas and requiring multidisciplinary knowledge, human and industrial capital, technological development and natural resources. We will therefore develop a holistic regionalisation approach for bioeconomy model regions. This is followed by a Multi-Criteria Assessment to help regional stakeholders in identifying the bioeconomy potential of their own European region given different dimensions such as products, industries, sectors and their cross-sectoral integration. In addition, we will map best practices, common challenges and transition hurdles from model regions that can serve as inspiration for carbon-intensive regions in their transition.

  • Network

    We will establish a BIO2REG network community of European regions to facilitate the exchange of regional stakeholders with each other and with experts, practitioners and decision-makers from politics, business and industry, finance, society, science and education. Regional stakeholders will be capacitated through trainings in regional and interregional network events. As a network member, you moreover have privileged access to our results and tools, such as hands-on transition guides.

  • Interregional exchange

    We build the capacity of regional stakeholders through a guided, knowledge-based exchange that will initiate interregional transition alliances between bioeconomy model regions and carbon-intensive regions. Our specially developed mentoring programme will include not only field and business visits, but also consulting on developing region-specific transition action plans.