BioRural aspires to create a pan-European Rural Bioeconomy Network under which related stakeholders will cooperate to promote the currently available small-scale bio-based solutions in rural areas to increase the share of Bioeconomy, giving increased value in such remote areas.

Specific objectives

  • Assess and evaluate the current performance of the European rural Bioeconomy and identify factors affecting innovation adoption and diffusion of bio-based solutions in rural areas
  • Create a European rural Bioeconomy network of actors playing different roles for Bioeconomy expansion in rural areas (covering all Bioeconomy Themes)
  • Assess and promote bio-based solutions in rural areas
  • Facilitate knowledge exchange and capacity building for the European rural Bioeconomy
  • Develop and continuously optimise an online open stakeholders’ tool (BioRural Toolkit)
  • Create rural development blueprints for regional and business scale-up of resilient and circular biobased solutions in rural areas

BioRural in numbers

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Regional Bioeconomy Platforms

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European Rural Bioeconomy Network

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Rural Bioeconomy Success Stories

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Capacity building workshops

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Regional workshops

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Knowledge exchange workshops

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Bioeconomy business models

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European Bioeconomy Challenge

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Interviews with end users/experts

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Bioeconomy material

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Success stories videos

Policy recommendations

Filmed workshops

Integration with EU's knowledge centre for Bioeconomy

BioRural is centered on three pillars
that feed into a publicly available BioRural Toolkit

Knowledge

The Pillar focuses on framing the Bioeconomy through the implementation of the following:


  • Information gap analysis
  • Knowledge exchange workshops
  • BioRural Toolkit

Network

The Pillar focuses on encouraging cooperation and collaboration to scale up rural Bioeconomy through the implementation of the following:


  • 1 European Rural Bioeconomy Network
  • 4 regional Rural Bioeconomy Platforms
  • Circular success stories
  • Synergies with previous and ongoing innovative bio-economy projects
  • Capacity building and regional workshops, Bioeconomy challenge

Business Models

The Pillar focuses on Business models for resilience and circularity and planning for ERBN sustainability through the implementation of the following:


  • Business model blueprints for each theme
  • Post-project sustainability