Objectives

Bioeconomy activities depend on healthy ecosystems for producing biomass, but without always eliminating the risk of harming the environment and ecosystem dependencies. Therefore, it is crucial to monitor, evaluate, and predict environmental impacts that arise from bioeconomy growth and bio-based product use, to manage negative effects and ensure that the bioeconomy operates within safe ecological limits.
BioINSouth applies a multi-actor approach to provide regional solutions that can be replicated throughout Europe, for meaningfully incorporating environmental and socioeconomic aspects in bio-based industrial systems. Intense interaction among all players in the bioeconomy value chain, through fora, workshops, and clustering activities strengthens the impact of BioINSouth in local and EU level.
BioINSouth will build up its methodology in eight European regions (Campania – Italy, Peloponnese – Greece, Andalusia and Asturias – Spain, Centro Region – Portugal, Nouvelle-Aquitaine – France, Slovenia and, Cyprus) by establishing an equal number of use cases, to achieve the following 8 specific objectives:

Setting up the Multi-Actor Regional Groups (MARGs) by involving at least eight stakeholders of the Quadruple Helix, per region
Establishing the BioINSouth HUBs in each of the eight regions by providing guidelines for the action plan and mobilisation of the HUBs
Developing new, or improve existing methodologies and digital tools for the assessment of environmental impacts and circularity of bio-based systems, concerning:
1. Estimations on the market growth of bio-based chemicals, ingredients, and materials
2. Biomass availability requirements for chemicals, polymers and materials
3. Assessment of impacts on food security, land use, land use change, forestry, biodiversity and ecosystems integrity
Constructing an integrated toolkit to include digital tools, methodologies and guidelines to support decision – makers to incorporate considerations of ecological limits into regional bioeconomy strategies and roadmaps
Designing an effective regional monitoring system applicable to various bioeconomy sectors in the context of Southern Europe, to ensure a wider geographical impact of project results
Demonstrating the use of the integrated toolkit in HUBs level, while performing analyses of regional policies
Co-developing policy recommendations for sustainability and circularity in industrial bio-based systems for strengthening integration into regional bioeconomy strategies
Ensuring wide visibility and replication of the BioINSouth experience and results

Co-funded by the European Union and supported by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking and its members. under Grant Agreement No 101156363. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the CBE JU. Neither the European Union nor the CBE JU can be held responsible for them.