Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy

To ensure that Europe’s rural areas continue to provide Europeans with food, homes, jobs and other services, the EU has developed a Rural toolkit. Thanks to this new tool...

In response to the European Green Deal priorities, the EU’s climate ambition for 2030 and 2050 and the EU bioeconomy strategy, the BIOEAST Initiative with its 11 Central and Eastern European...

This paper develops a methodology to define functional rural areas in the EU and seeks feedback on the method and the results. Functional rural areas are designed to cover all the territories...

The Regional Innovation Valleys for Bioeconomy and Food Systems will contribute to the New European Innovation Agenda and its flagship action in building 100 regional deep-tech innovation...

The analysis of the regional dimension of the bioeconomy is important due to its policy implications. The EU’s Bioeconomy Strategy recognizes the potential contribution of the bioeconomy for the development of rural and remote areas...

A unique EFI science-policy study assesses how national and regional policies meet the goals of the EU Forest Strategy and presents nine policy recommendations to aid the Strategy’s...

The European Week of Regions and Cities (#EURegionsWeek) is the biggest annual Brussels-based event dedicated to cohesion policy.

The complexity of coastal fisheries requires a management system that is able to integrate multiple interactions in order to gradually achieve sustainability. We argue that regional co-management can appropriately...

The conference will bring together policy-makers, research and innovation networks, farmers’ organisations, advisors, and other relevant stakeholders to exchange views on the current and future scenario of rural...

The Normandy Region wants to better promote seafood and agricultural products. It launched a three-year strategic plan, signed at the Salon de l’agriculture in Paris on Monday February...