BIOEAST Foresight Conference: Climate-neutral future depends on sustainable bioeconomies. 27 September 2021

High-level BIOEAST Foresight Conference was organised on 27 September 2021, under the auspices of the Slovenian Presidency of the Council of the EU and the Hungarian Presidency of the Visegrád Group, on positioning sustainable and circular bioeconomies in Central and Eastern Europe to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. The main topic of the event was the Foresight Report on future development paths, in which experts outlined four distinctly different scenarios and their impacts up to 2050, whether the economy will continue to be based on the use of fossil resources in the future, with its negative environmental impacts, or the region will be able to transform.

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Welcome speech – Mariya Gabriel, European Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth

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Session 1 – The role of research in the transition towards sustainable bioeconomy – Gianluca Brunori, University of Pisa

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Session 1 – BIOEAST Foresight Report – Ladeja Godina Košir, Chair of the Foresight Experts Group

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Session 2 – Bioeconomy in the European Green Deal – Peter Wehrheim, DG Research & Innovation Bioeconomy & Food Systems Unit

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Session 2 – BIOEAST Foresight Report: Reflections from the Advisory Council

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Session 2 – Deploying the Bioeconomy in the EU: A framework approach for bioeconomy strategy development – Patrick Barrett, Rapporteur

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Session 2 – Reflection of the BIOEAST Board on the BIOEAST Foresight – Barna Kovács, Secretary-General of the BIOEAST Initiative

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Parallel Thematic Session – The role of the bioeconomy in decarbonising agriculture in Ireland livestock sector – James Gaffey, Circular Bioeconomy Research Group

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Parallel thematic session – Transformation of Food Systems in Central and Eastern European Countries_ Marek Wigier (IERGŻ-PIB), Wioletta Wrzaszcz (Institute of Agriculture)

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Parallel Thematic Session – Research and innovation in the food system transformation – Paweł Chmieliński, IRWIR PAN; Justyna Cieślikowska, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development PL

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Parallel Thematic Session – Shaping Education for the European Bioeconomy, Iris Lewandowski, University of Hohenheim

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Parallel Thematic Session – Teaming up with the value chain: How innovations from chemical industry can support the carbon neutrality targets – Katharina Schlegel, BASF

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Parallel Thematic Session – Precision Agriculture as the way to reducing Water pollution (Karel Charvát, Czech Center for Science and Society)

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Parallel Thematic Session – Policies and strategic approaches for future Food Systems – future challenges and needs in Food Systems Transformations (Hans-Jörg Lutzeyer, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission)

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Parallel Thematic Session – Methane strategy, climate actions and livestock sector (Sami Vinkki, Demeca Oy Finland)

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Parallel Thematic Session – Main findings of the EU Biorefinery Outlook to 2030 (Richard Platt, E4tech expert)

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Parallel Thematic Session – Main future research directions in agroecology (Korinna Varga, Hungarian Research Institute of Organic Agriculture)

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Parallel Thematic Session – Main Findings according to the BIOEAST Foresight Report – Future challenges in agriculture (Anikó Juhász, Deputy State Secretary, Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture)

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Parallel Thematic Session – Main challenges and transitions points to boost agroecology in the EU and how BIOEAST countries could contribute to this transition (Alexander Wezel, Head of Research, Professor for Agroecology and Landscape Ecology)

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Parallel Thematic Session – Livestock sector and GHG emissions in the BIOEAST countries (Biljana Kulišić, BIOEAST TWG Bioenergy and Energy Institute Hrvoje Požar)

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Parallel Thematic Session – Macro-regional analyses, some key characteristics, statistical evidence about BIOEAST countries’ bioeconomies (Luka Juvančič, associate professor, University of Ljubljana)

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Parallel Thematic Session – Global trends and driver of advanced bio-based chemicals and materials (Ramani Narayan, Professor at University of Michigan)

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Parallel Thematic Session – Future challenges in the forestry sector (Nike Krajnc, Slovenian Forestry Institute)

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Parallel Thematic Session – European Community of Practice on Bioeconomy Education (Simon Heath, Board member of the European CoP on Bioeconomy Education and Secretary General of the European Life Sciences Universities (ICA))

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Parallel Thematic Session – Ecological outlook perspectives, the role and future impact of agroecology on biodiversity and ecosystem services (opportunities and challenges) (András Báldi, Member of the Academia Europaea)

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Parallel Thematic Session – CoE LignoSilva – new technologies in wood processing value chains (Tomáš Bucha, CoE LignoSilva, Slovakia)

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Parallel Thematic Session – CoE InnoRenew and forthcoming challenges in the wood processing sector (Andreja Kutnar, CoE InnoRenew)

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Welcome speech – István Nagy, Hungarian Minister of Agriculture

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Welcome speech – Jože Podgoršek, Slovenian Minister of Agriculture

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Parallel Thematic Session – Introduction on forests and forestry in Slovenia (Tomaž Remic, Slovenian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Food)

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Closing remarks – Wolfgang Burtscher, Director-General, Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission

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Closing remarks – Damjana Karlo, Head of the Sector for Structural Funds in the field of research and development, Ministry of Education, Science and Sport (Slovenia)

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