Newsletter #1 – En
Bioeconomy is the future economy
| Due to challenges of limited resources and growing environmental issues, EU is making an effort to become a resource-efficient, prospering and competitive economy (e.g., European Green Deal). Bioeconomy plays an essential role in this process. More robust development of the bioeconomy will help the EU accelerate progress towards a circular and low-carbon economy. It will help modernize the EU industrial base, creating new value chains and greener, more cost-effective industrial processes while protecting biodiversity and the environment. |
| What is Bioeconomy and why is it important? In short, bioeconomy is an economy based on renewable biological recourses. It includes using renewable biological resources from land and sea to produce food, materials, and bioenergy (The Updated Bioeconomy Strategy of European Commission 2018). The advantage of bioeconomy is that it reduces dependence on fossil fuels and promotes renewable energies. By implementing knowledge of bioeconomy, it will become easier to adapt to climate change. |
| An innovative and multidisciplinary approach for teaching bioeconomy The EU empathizes the important of skills in unlocking the economic and wider benefits in inherent to the European Bioeconomy. To be capable of responding quickly and flexibly to the emerging and ever-growing needs of bioeconomy, skills in different needs across the bioeconomy sector (e.g., agrology, biorefining, ecology and other disciplines) must be adapted. (Action 2.4). As bioeconomy training is absent in many EU countries and there is a shortage of people with higher education in the farming sector, there is a need to alter this. Vocational training and higher education play an essential role in this transition integrating dedicates curricula and training. |
RELIEF aims to develop and deliver an innovative approach for teaching bioeconomy in farming, by developing specific learning resources addressing higher education students, farming practitioners and farmers.
Project phases and Resurces
Activities and next steps
| To share the first progress of the project and plan the next steps, all partners met in Kalamata (Greece) on the 26th and 27th of September. In the upcoming months, the partners are engaged in critically reviewing the educational and training offer and of the methodologies used to transmit the concepts of the bioeconomy to students and professionals. Higher Education Institutions, Vocational Education and Training providers, farmer consultants, research institutes, and social partners form Italy, Greece, Sweden, Cyprus and Portugal will work together to provide a high-quality network within the EU to advance bioeconomy in the farming agenda. We are excited for what to come and to bring our audience along the journey! |
Partnership
Coordinator UOP – University of Peloponnese (Greece)
UAc – University of Azores (Portugal)
MDU – Malardalens Universitet (Sweeden)
CESIE (Italy)
SwIdeas (Sweeden)
Innovade LI (Cyprus)
Terinov (Portugal)
ReadLab P.C. (Greece)
Dream (Italy)
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About Relief
Relief is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme, Partnership for Innovation, Alliances for Education and Enterprises.
Date of project: 01/06/2022 – 31/05/2025
Project Number: 101056181
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