Made in Danube:Bioeconomy a key element for smart and green growth in Europe and the Danube Region

1. Smart and innovative precision farming (Nitra, Slovakia);
2. Competence Center in Wood Sector (Vukovar, Croatia);
3. Biofuel (Novi Sad, Serbia)

Press Release

Trainings on innovation, IPA-CIFATT-Craiova organized the trainings “Technology Broker” and “Manager of Innovation”, at the National Institute for Biological Science, Bucharest, Romania, 3-5 May 2017 and 16-19 May 2017, for the personnel from Technology Transfer Centre of National Institute of Biological Science, Bucharest.
During this training the Made in Danube Project was presented , the benefit to be part of the Network, to receive TO/TR and the Newsletter. Some case studies were provided.

Workshop on bioeconomy "Priorities for the development of the bioeconomy in Oltenia region for the period 2016-2030" was organized by IPA-CIFATT-Craiova in Craiova, Romania on April, 27, 2017.The event was organized by the National Institute of Research and Development for Chemistry and Petro chemistry, in partnership with the local organiser IPA CIFATT Craiova, in the framework of the project: "Research on the identification of priorities for the development of the bioeconomy in Romania for the period 2016-2030" financed by the State Budget through the Ministry of Research and Innovation - State Authority for Scientific Research, Technological Development and Innovation, Sectorial Plan.
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Kick-off Event on 22nd March 2017 in Stuttgart, Germany: Bridging knowledge gaps in bioeconomy – Successful kick-off event on Made in Danube project.
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Steinbeis-Europa-Zentrum: Successful 2nd PA Cross-fertilization Workshop Competitiveness and internationalization of SMEs in bioeconomy in Danube Region.
On the 25th of April 2017 the DANUBE-INCO.NET 2nd PA Cross-fertilization Workshop on Competitiveness and Internationalization of SMEs in bioeconomy in Danube Region has been held in Vukovar, Croatia.The workshop was attended by 40 representatives from Public Authorities, Research Organisations, SMEs and Business Support Organisations & Clusters of the Danube Region. The aim of the workshop was to develop prospects for competitiveness and internationalization of small and medium sized enterprises in the field of bioeconomy in the Danube Region with the participation of relevant representatives in the area of research and innovation.
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ODIMM Moldavia, promoted the project and the kick-off event trough the web site. About 100 representatives of SMEs, Higher Education and Research Institutions as well as Public Authorities in the Danube Region participated in the launch event of the "Made in Danube" Project, which took place on March 22, 2017, in the city Stuttgart, Germany.
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Synergies with other projects

EcoInn Danube - Eco-innovatively connected Danube Region.
General objective of the EcoInn Danube project is to enhance cooperation of innovation actors in the field of ecoinnovations with special emphasis on development and application of ecotechnologies in the Danube Region. The project will focus mainly on field of renewable energy and energy saving (efficiency).

The Project main pillars are:

1. Increase transnational cooperation in ecoinnovations - The only effective way how to face enviro problems is a joint transnational effort. Aim is to interconnect and survey needs/requirements of all elements of the ecoinnovation cycle.
2. Increase the match of demand and supply in ecoinnovation - Producers are forced to look for eco solutions enabling them to perform a greener production. Researchers perform environmental research which is often not problem solving oriented. Smart tools for easing the matching will be introduced and adopted.
3. Bring eco innovation actors together - Innovators and researchers lack of practical skills and opportunities for application of their ideas. Business supporters and producers lack of information on talents and new ecotechnologies. Aim is to improve business, eco knowledge transfer and IPR skills of ecoinnovators, to offer a space to present their ideas.

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BioEast Initiative. The Central-Eastern European Initiative for Knowledge-based Agriculture, Aquaculture and Forestry in the Bioeconomy – BIOEAST – offers a shared strategic research and innovation framework for working towards sustainable bioeconomies in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries.
Vision Paper and Position Paper are available to be downloaded here:  under the menu ’Bioeconomy-BioEast’. As part of the Initiative a dedicated webpage – bioeast.eu – will be created, which is expected to be available from 1st of August 2017. In the framework of the BIOEAST Initiative BIOEAST Bioeconomy Capacity Building Survey has been adopted from the Survey jointly elaborated during the Danube-INCO.NET project by the Central European Initiative and PANNON Pro Innovations. The survey takes approximately 10 minutes to fill. We would highly appreciate if you could fill in this questionnaire. Deadline: 31 July 2017
BioEast questionnaire - Academic, Research
BioEast questionnaire - Business, Industry, SME, start-up
BioEast questionnaire - Public sector, NGO

Danube-INCO.NET successfully concludes its activity with many results and ten recommendations for the development of bioeconomy in the Danube Region.
Danube-INCO.NET “Advancing Research and Innovation in the Danube Region” - FP7 initiative just ended. From January 2014 to June 2017 the project applied a macro-regional approach to contribute to the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the eight EU Member States (MS) and six non-Member States forming the Danube Region and being very different in terms of economic strengths, research and innovation systems and profiles.Danube-INCO.NET has especially supported cooperation in R&I in the Danube Region while mainly tackling two of the EUSDR (EU Strategy for the Danube Region) Priority Areas: i.e. PA 7 „Knowledge Society“ and PA 8 „Competitiveness“. Project activities were carried out by 19 partner organisations, coordinated by the Austrian ZSI GmbH, and have generally fostered policy dialogue, created networks among key stakeholders, contributed analyses to support R&I development in the Region as well. Similarly, events, publications and policy recommendations for R&I cooperation have reached in recent years an audience as broad as possible, as well as interested and engaged in the future macro-regional development of the Danube Region. Among project pillars, Danube-INCO.NET project has addressed also sustainable energy efficiency, renewable energy and the development of bioeconomy as societal challenges relevant for the Danube Region. The project acted to improve the potential of the Danube Region for research and innovation in these selected societal challenges by combining a set of actions to increase networking and cooperation at transnational level in the above mentioned sectors. Starting from the setting up of a DATABASE of actors across energy efficiency/renewable energy and the bio-economy the project analysed the cooperation framework and the available funds for energy efficiency in the Danube Region. It also funded two Pilot actions capable to generate tangible results in support to the implementation of the EUSDR:

• Pilot Action 1 - Towards a Danube bioeconomy RTI strategy for appropriate regional added value chains (PA-bioeconomy RTI strategy)
• Pilot Action 2 - Building a Bioeconomy Research and Advocacy Network in the Danube Region (DANUBIONET)

More recently a capitalization workshop “Fostering Bioeconomy in the Danube Region” has led to the consolidation of 10 Recommendations in support to the development of Bioeconomy in the Danube Region, which resulted from the implementation of the just mentioned Pilot Activities and the combination of their outcomes after the capitalization workshop. Some of the Danube-INCO.NET partners are also active within the Made in Danube initiative and this represents a handing over of all activities and objectives with reference to the bioeconomy sphere.
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Bioeconomy Forum

Calls / Bioeconomy capital

Events in the field of bioeconomy, technology transfer, innovation and business finding partners

Company mission at International Agricultural Fair 2017, České Budějovice, Czech Republic, 24-25 August, 2017
The event will be connected with the fair Bread Basket edition - International Agricultural Fair. During the mission group will meet Czech companies at their stands and at specially arranged B2B meeting session. The target sectors: renewal and rural development technology, plant and animal production, agricultural technology, food production, forestry and water system, gardening and breeding, services for agriculture, etc.
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Exhibition and brokerage event. Watec, water technologies & environment control, 12-14 Sept 2017, Tel Aviv
WATEC Israel 2017 is a leading international exhibition in the field of water technologies & environment control, which offers a meeting place for manufacturers, researchers, investors, academics, purchasers and decision-makers representing both local and international businesses.
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International matchmaking event at Polagra Food Fair, Poznan, Poland, 26 September 2017
The Enterprise Europe Network office hosted by the Poznan Science and Technology Park, together with other EEN Partners, has a pleasure to invite you to participate in the 7th edition of the international matchmaking event.
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B2B matching event at the 7th Forum on Industrial Biotechnology & Bioeconomy, 5-6 October, 2017, Rome, Italy
During the Forum the EEN Biotech and Bioeconomy Partnering Event will be organized, and offers the chance to meet potential partners in pre-arranged face-to-face bilateral meetings in order to establish new cooperation opportunities in research, technology transfer and business.
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Brokerage event at the Life Sciences 2017 - MIT4LS2017, 11 - 13 October 2017, Turin, Italy
Meet in Italy for Life Sciences 2017 will be hosting the international brokerage event and bilateral meetings between Companies, Start-ups,Research centers, Universities, Investors, Technology parks and other public and private institutions interested in new opportunities for technological, commercial and/or research collaboration will take place.
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Horizon 2020 Environment Information Day &Brokerage event 8 - 9 November 2017, Brussels, Belgium
The Information Day  and brokerage event on the Horizon 2020 Work Programme 2018-2020, Challenge "Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency & Raw Materials".
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Selection for your Agenda

• 14 July, Joint Conference on "Innovation in Life Sciences in a Changing and Vibrant Environment", London, UK
• 12-14 July, Rome, 26-28 July, Athens, Training course Financial Management of EC Projects, Rome, Athens
• 23-26 July, BIO World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology, Montréal, Canada
• September-November, Practical-training-for-Horizon-2020, samantha.wayman@singleimage.co.uk, Cambridge, UK
• 4-6 September, Smart-Specialization-Strategy-in-the-field-of-Biotechnologies-in-Europe, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 7-9 September,ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference, Dubrovnik, Croatia
• 11-13 September, Global-Conference-on-Plant-Science-and-Molecular-Biology, Valencia, Spain
• 12-14 September,Nordic Life Science Days, Malmö, Sweden
• 20-27 September, Global Biotech Week
• 21-22 September,Interreg Central Europe Annual Conference 2017, Berlin, Germany
• 21-22 September, Workshop-Oral-proceedings-at-the-EPO; Online registration, The Hague, Netherlands
• 25 September - 1 October, European Biotech Week
• 26-27 September, ASEBIO Investor Day, Barcelona, Spain
• 6-7 October,Conference-Bioeconomy-R&D-Results, Brussels, Belgium
• 9-11 October, European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology and the Bioeconomy,Brussels, Belgium
• 10 - 11 October 2017, Offshore Energy match/ ; Matchmaking Programme, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
• 19 October, EU’s-leading-Conference-on-IB-and-bioeconomy, Glasgow, Scotland
• 24-25 October, Social Innovation – Research & Policy of the Future, Brussels, Belgium
• 7-10 November, Ecomondo-the-green-technologies-Expo, Ecomondo is Key Energy, Rimini, Italy
• 9-10 November, ICT-Proposer’s-Day-2017, Register to ICT Proposers' Day 2017, Budapest, Hungary
• 15-18 November,International Specialized Exhibition - “INFOINVENT”, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
• 16-17 November, European Bioenergy Future, Brussels, Belgium
• 23-24 November,International-Conference-Rural-Development-Bioeconomy-Challenges, Kaunas, Lithuania
• 5-7 December,Power-GEN, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
• 7-8 December,Intellectual Property Summit 2017, Brussels, Belgium

Technology Offers; Technology Request

Technology Offer

• Precision agriculture technology based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for small &medium farms (Turkey)
• A Greek SME company is offering expertise for developing a precision agriculture solution (Greece)
• Smart monitoring solution for hydroponic crops (Spain)
• ICT platform for managing crop production processes (UK)
• Mobile wood briquette machine (Hungary)
• Pheromone insect traps suitable for capturing bark & wood boring beetles with the purpose of monitoring… (Slovakia)
• Mobile pyrolysis plant technology to produce standard charcoal and biochar (UK)
• Technology for thermo-mechanical digestion of biogenous refuse (Germany)
• Pine polyphenol extract called Oligo-ProanthoCyanidin. (France)
• Sustainable production of biofuel (bioethanol) from shellfish waste (Spain)
• Technology for bioethanol production from wood using simultaneous saccharification &fermentation method (Romania)
• Development of polymer membrane producing method with non-heatable nanomaterial additives for.... (Latvia)
• Scalable microalgae biomass production & harvesting system to get biofuel, food & feed feedstock for… (Israel)
• Waste to biofuel technology offers zero waste & value extraction solution for municipal solid waste processors (UK)

Technology Request

• A company is interested in identifying modern technologies in organic farming and post-harvest technologies (Moldova)
• A company from the poultry farming sector is looking for a technology to recycle chicken manure (Romania)
• Seeking biogas burners manufacturers for innovative Stirling engines (Italy)
• Photovoltaic technology sought for rural areas of Senegal (Belgium)
• Seeking partner to provide sensor components for small scale anaerobic digestion technology (UK)
• A Chinese company is looking for microbial electrochemistry and supercritical water oxidation technology (China)
• Alternative ways of joining wood-based surfaces and wood-based surfaces with the other surfaces (Poland)
• Valuable biochemicals from oak tannins (France)
• A producer of wood veneer sheets looks for solutions for identifying of individual veneer sheets on a pallete… (Slovakia)
• Strong sewing thread made of compostable material (Switzerland)
• Seeking innovative technology for precast concrete element production (France)
• Catalan chemical company focused on polyurethane water-based dispersions is looking for partnership…. (Spain)
• Machinery, equipment and programs requested for medical devices manufacturing (Romania)

Research, innovation and Entrepreneurship

Clusters & SMEs

Bioeconomy Clusters –European Cluster Collaboration Platform
Bioeconomy Clusters are associations of legal entities established with the aim to promote cooperation, networking and knowledge transfer among its members which include mainly the representatives of business sector, R&D actors, academia, as well as tertiary sphere. Bioeconomy Clusters are aimed mainly at cooperation with practice and linking of practice with R&D.
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European Cluster Initiatives
The European cluster approach for growth is based on three main pillars: emerging industries and interregional cooperation, cluster internationalisation and cluster excellence. At the horizontal level, through the European Cluster Observatory, the EC services also provide statistical information, analysis and mapping of clusters and cluster policy as well as makes available tools for cluster collaboration, through this European Cluster Collaboration Platform.
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Good Practices in selected bioeconomy sector clusters; a comparative analysis
The aim of the report is to explain the bioeconomy development, regional Case Studies and selected Good Practices to serve as a practical guide and source of inspiration for other regions who wish to develop their bioeconomy potential.
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The European Path to Bioeconomy Runs through Clusters
Who are the major protagonists of the European bioeconomy? Clusters. From Romania, Slovakia, France to Austria, Germany, Netherlands, Italy, in the Old Continent many countries aggregate SMEs, R&Dcenters, Local Administration, Universities and, occasionally, investors, driven by the motto “working together to compete”. Innovation processes are governed by large, complex, structured production chains, with various economic/non-economic actors, often with a local connotation, influencing their characteristics/results. An interest in clusters is not only linked to their economic potential but also to their value as a planning tool by public intervention on the environment.
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Biotech Cluster and SME Mission, 10 - 13 October 2017, Tokyo, Japan
The mission will give EU SMEs the opportunity to enter the Japanese market and establish technology or business partnerships and therefore increase their innovation capacity and make them more competitive on the global scale. The mission will also contribute to improve the cooperation strategies between EU and Japanese clusters.
The Biotech Cluster/SME mission coincides with the “BioJapan” Expo in Yokohama (http://www.ics-expo.jp/biojapan/en/).
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Cluster cooperation beyond Europe
DG GROWTH of the EC created an overview of EU Instruments contributing to the Internationalisation of European Businesses to help improve the knowledge of potential business internationalisation stakeholders on funding possibilities and existing instruments (both direct and indirect) and supporting SME internationalisation beyond the EU.
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Selection for your Agenda

• INNOSUP-1 Activate: call for financial support to third parties (SMEs).Deadline 5 September
• SMART: new EUREKA Cluster Program on Advanced Manufacturing, Pre-announcement
• Europe’s-Bioeconomy-3bi-intercluster
• Good-Practices-In-Selected-Bioeconomy-Sectors
• Dynamic Clustering Initiatives - Fifteen common aspects identified.
• University-masters-degree-in-competitiveness-and-innovation
• A Practical Guide to Cluster Development; 12 steps to Cluster Development
• New-Call-Cluster-go-international-call-launched
• The 24th CORNET Call for Proposals. Deadline: 27 September 2017
• IraSME: the 20th call for proposals Deadline: 27 September 2017
• EU-Thailand Matchmaking Event in Bangkok,5-7 September 2017
• Brussels, 25-26 Sept., Training session: How to place your cluster in the European move and grab new opportunities
• II European Clusters Days, 22-23 November 2017, European Parliament, Strasbourg, www.franceclusters.fr
• VI Romanian Cluster Conference, December 2017

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