BERST project BioEconomyRegional Strategy · PDF fileBERST project BioEconomyRegional Strategy Toolkit Myrna van Leeuwen CoPmeeting, Straubing, Germany 25 March2014

BERST project

BioEconomy Regional Strategy Toolkit

Myrna van LeeuwenCoP meeting, Straubing, Germany

25 March2014

• Project identity, objectives and partners

involved

• Scope of BERST and Policy context

• Work programme and expected outcomes

Overview of BERST

Straubing CoP meeting 25 March 2014

•FP7 financed by DG Research

•Coordination and Support Action (CSA)

•December 2013 – November 2015

•1,3 mio € (with 1 mio € EC contribution)

•15 partners from 8 countries

Project identity of BERST



BERST consortium

General objective of BERST


Explore the bioeconomy

potential of EU regions

Purposes of BERST


• Provide a toolkit to help regions in their pathway of bioeconomic

development:

– dataset with criteria and indicators

– catalogue of instruments and measures

– catalogue of good practices and case studies

– guidelines for elaborating regional profiles

• Provide a network to promote the development of smart

specialization strategies based on regional bioeconomic potentials

SCOPE AND POLICY

CONTEXT


Bioeconomy playing field

Biobasedproducts

Biomass waste

Feed

Food

Crops

Biomass

crops

MaterialsChemicalsTransport fuelEnergy

Biomass waste

© Becoteps

� Ensuring food security

�Managing natural resources sustainably/biodiversity

� Reducing dependence on non-renewable resources

�Mitigating and adapting to climate change/GHG emissions

� Creating jobs and maintaining European competitiveness

The Bioeconomy and the Societal Challenges

(EC bioeconomy Strategy, 2012)

objectives are

interconnected

objectives are

interconnected

Aim strategy:

sustainability

Aim strategy:

long term

sustainabilityStraubing CoP meeting 25 March 2014

Other recent EC initiatives to boost the EU

Bioeconomy

• BioEconomy Observatory (2013-2016):

– collection and dissemination of data and information

• European Bioeconomy Panel (appointed for 2013-2015):

– highest policy level group of 30 members

– aims to support and prioritise the bioeconomy agenda as a whole

• PPP (Public-Private Partnership) program in Horizon2020:

– industry, academia and users engage in alliances around

roadmaps to reinforcing Europe’s competitiveness and excellence


• BERST contributes to long term economic and

environmental sustainability, by:

– understanding the regional bioeconomy development

– boosting bioeconomy industries, potential entrepreneurs

and investors in regions

– actively promoting new ‘smart’ strategies for regional

development through establishing a EU bioregional

network

How can BERST contribute to the EU

bioeconomy strategy?


What is a Bioregion in BERST?

Any geographically

meaningful entity (not

necessarily a political

or administrative), as

a combination of

biological, social and

geographic criteria.

E.g. based on

NUTS2/NUTS3

(Eurostat), but can be

other as well


How can BERST affect bioregional development?

• Bioregions are seeking help to find ways:

– supporting, encouraging concrete actions towards the bioeconomy

(organisational, management tools, instruments and measures)

– boosting investors, current and potential entrepreneurs in bioeconomy

– in making strategic choices, searching for synergies within a given

region or between regions, vertical and horizontal integration


BERST is supporting the development of the

potential bioeconomy, in a practical way

ACTIVITIES AND

EXPECTED OUTCOMES


Organisation of work programme


Conceptual interaction of WPs

WP2,3,5

WP3, 4

WP 1

WP1Good Practices

profiles -objectives

indicators

WP1, 2

Case Studies

Good Practices and Case StudiesGood

Practices

Case

Studies

UK X X

BE X X

DE X X

NL X X

FI X X

ES X X

SI X X

GR X X

PL X X

... X X

... X X

• Good Practices:

- Flagship regions

- examples for exploring any

region’s future bioeconomy

potential (‘point in the

future’)

• Case Studies:

From different situations across

EU (rural/urban, South/North,

rich/poor in biomass resources)


BERST Toolbox (1)

• A web-based platform, including:

– catalogue with criteria, indicators, measures and

instruments at EU regional level

– catalogue with good practices, case studies, guidelines

for making profiles

– EU bioregion network to link project partners among

themselves and with regional stakeholders in general


Guidelines to advise regions in their pathway of

bioeconomy development and in promoting new

smart strategies

BERST Toolbox (2)


Developing Regional Profiles (1)

• General guidelines based on indicators in WP1, e.g. on the dominance of a biomass supplying sector.

• Regional profiles worked out per partner country– tested/elaborated on Good Practices and Case Study

• Compare ‘Region X with Profile Y’ with its associated ‘Good Practice with Profile Y’:– Which indicator scores worse/better than for Good Practice?

– Which measure/instrument (combination) is (un)available and could support?


Developing Regional Profiles (2)

• Explore meaningful responses from regional

entrepreneurs and policy makers, by:

– selecting measures/instruments

– management choices; innovation decisions

• Develop smart specialization strategy

for Region X:

– regional workshops; bioregions network

– factsheet


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