Engage4BIO mission is to strengthen circular, sustainable bioeconomy and sustainable regional development taking into account their diversity of societal, economic and cultural perspectives in processes of design thinking, co-creation, (re)training and skills development. The project is active from October 2022 to 2025.
The regional bio-based systems focus on the five major value chains:
- circular and bio-based textiles (NL)
- agriculture and agro-food industries (HU)
- wood and interior (AT)
- bio-based and sustainable packaging (FI)
- blue bioeconomy (IT).
The embedding art and design in the activities will boost the uptake to strengthen local governance feedback loops and respective governance models, to increase design thinking and co-create formats fortraining, retraining, mentoring and skills development and transfer fostering understanding and engagement in bio-based systems and to co-create communication and awareness campaigns.
We create multi-stakeholder engagement to strengthen regional bioeconomy value-chains. Engage4BIO framework will be designed in a transferable way, considering regional, natural and cultural differences and will be applicable in different European regions.
Project consortium
A European-wide consortium with a good gender balance from different EU member states form the Engage4BIO team. The hubs at the heart of the project build on an already existing bioeconomy networks with different topics, have very strong links to industry, policy makers and associations, networks and initiatives are extremely well connected with other bioeconomy projects and networks. They are teamed up with highly skilled and experienced partners with research expertise either in the field of co-creation and engagement, or training and skill development, art and social science.
Partners
- Zentrum fur Sociale Innovation GMBH
- Stichting Wageningen Research
- Agenzia per la Promozione della Ricerca Europea
- Bay Zoltan Alkalmazott Kutatasi Kozhaszny Nonprofit KTF
- European Association for the Education of Adults
- Moholy-Nagy Muveszeti Egyetem
- Stichting Artez
- CLIC Innovation Oy
- Business Upper Austria - OO Wirtschaftsagentur GMBH
- Metropolia Ammattikorkeakoulu Oy
- Universita degli Studi di Palermo
Funding
Project is funded with European Commission's Horizon Europe Framework Programme (HORIZON).
More information
Mona Roman, mona.roman [at] metropolia.fi (mona[dot]roman[at]metropolia[dot]fi)
Innovation Director, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences