Realising the bio-economy

The "bio-economy" has become a concept that links the challenges and opportunities with the transition to sustainable development.There is a need to generate new ways of working, new processes, services and products that can contribute to such a transition. Research and policy actors nationally and internationally are supporting various initiatives to address this need- not least with the establishment of the EU Bioeconomy Observatory. Collaborations across disciplines and stakeholders are a must to contribute to the realisation of the bioeconomy.

The aim of this seminar:

1) Provide inspiration to address the agenda of how to realise the bio-economy

2) Share knowledge and ideas from ongoing bio-economy projects

3)Provide a meeting place for those working with the challenges of realising the bio-economy

This seminar aims to contribute to the dissemination of knowledge between Nordic actors in this area- with a focus on regional development and socio-economic dimension. The seminar is organised in collaboration between Nordregio, Karlstad University and the cluster organisation Paper Province. Together with Baltic stakeholders, we have received seed-money from the NCM to develop a workshop about trans-disciplinary development of the bio-economy. This seminar is in preparation of a subsequent workshop which will take place in November.

Lene Lange will give a presentation on the development of the Danish Bioeconomy panel. Furthermore, the results from Nordregio projects on regional bioeconomy development as well as the current Nordregio activities on bioeconomy are presented, as well as the 10 year Vinnväxt project "Paper Province 2.0- an innovation system for a bio based economy". The seminar also allows time for discussions-picking up burning issues across the different presentations.

Program:

12:00-12:45 Arrival to Nordregio and light lunch

12:45-13:00 Welcome and Introduction (Kiell Nilsson, director Nordregio)

13:-14:30 Recommendations from the Danish Bioeconomy Panel (Lene Lange, Professor at Aalborg University, DK)

Bioeconomy in the Nordic regions (Jukka Teräs and Gunnar Lindberg, Nordregio)

14:30-15:00 Break for energy and discussions

15:00-15:30 Developing a large scale bio economy demonstrator- Paper Province 2.0 (Maria Hollander, CEO, Paper Province, Karlstad, SE; Margareta Dahlström, Professor, Karlstad University, SE)

15:30-16:00 Discussions

Registration 

Deadline September 1

State your name, organisation and E-mail and send this information to Gunnar.Lindberg@nordregio.se

Seminar is free of charge. The language of the seminar is English.