The first period is over and we would like to share with you what we have been up to. Also feel free to check out our outputs in the library. 

PSG Meeting February 2021

At the beginning of February, we had our second PSG meeting. The partners and the associated strategic partners were present. Furthermore, interesting insights were given by external speakers. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting had to be held online. 

After opening remarks from the lead partner, inspirational talks were given by two external speakers. Dr. Barna Kovács (BIOEAST Secretary General) spoke about the mission of the BIOEAST initiative. Its vision for 2030 is to develop knowledge and cooperation based circular bioeconomies, which helps to enhance the inclusive growth of the regions and to create new value-added jobs especially in rural areas, maintaining or even strenghthening environmental sustainability. This talk was followed by the presentation of Igor Kos (WCYCLE Institute, Maribor). He spoke about the circular economy development there and the numerous projects, which should help to establish close cooperation between local government, public companies, industry and citizens. Afterwards, the first project results of GoDanuBio were presented. You can find further information on them below and in our library. The partners' reports revealed unanimously the current status and problems in the respective regions in the fields of bioeconomy, demographic change and rural development and the importance of GoDanuBio activities to tackle the identified challenges. A brief overview on further work packages was given. This was followed by two portrait presentations. Blaz Barboric (Geodetic Institute of Slovenia) gave an interesting insight into the results of the Attractive Danube Interreg DTP project, which can also be capitalized for GoDanuBio. Afterwards, Blanka Dvoráková presented Healthy Cities of the Czech Republic (ASP in GoDanuBio), an association certified by the World Health Organization. Through nationwide networking, member municipalities can share experiences and good practices at local and regional level.

Our first outputs are available in the library!

We are happy to announce that our first deliverables are now available in our library. Feel free to check them out if you are interested. In the first deliverable the partners from the respective regions worked together. From a list of completed and ongoing EU projects and macro-regional documents, they selected what had already been capitalized in the regions in the form of strategies, action plans and guidelines. Accompanying this capitalization, current strategies in the regions were mapped in the second deliverable as a synthesis report. The output was that bioeconomy is of great interest in the regions, but the perception of the topic shows differences. Only a quarter of 35 strategies and documents found are directly related to bioeconomy, demographic change or rural development, the rest are more general and cross-cutting. If you want to know more, feel free to download the documents and browse through them!

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