BIOEAST WEBINAR ON MOBILIZING FINANCIAL INVESTMENT INTO BIOECONOMY RELATED INNOVATION IN THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES – 15TH NOVEMBER

AGENDA

Mobilizing financial investment into bioeconomy related innovation

in the Central and Eastern European countries

Financing bioeconomy projects – Adding value to primary production.

15 November 2021. 9:00-12:00

Zoom Link for connection:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88568511135?pwd=Z2p5c1V3MUdNME0xWno0TzFsaW5vUT09

Webinar ID

885 6851 1135

Webinar Passcode

483685

Moderator: Barna Kovacs, BIOEAST Secretary General

9:00 – 9:30 Introduction

Welcome by Ambassador Gábor Baranyai, Deputy Permanent Representative, Hungarian Permanent Representation to the EU

Keynote: 50 most relevant bio-based innovations influencing the coming decade, Sven Wydra, Head of Unit Fraunhofer-Institute Systems and Innovation Research (ISI)

9:30-10:10 Innovators and beneficiaries

1^st session. Examples of accessing the funds and feasible projects

1. APHEA BIO, Isabel Vercauteren CEO APHEABIO

2. Two EBRD financed projects: Ela Yilmaz Akdeniz and Nicolò Giachino, Green Economy and Climate Action, EBRD

1. Tungsram Food Autonomy: Circular zero waste bio-food economy, Joerg Bauer, CEO of Tungsram

Break

10:25-11:10 Investors and funders

2^nd session. Loans and equity: Public and private finance mobilizing the marketable projects (TRL 3-9)

1. Innovative financing for the Bioeconomy, Paulina Brezicka, Advisor, Innovation Finance Advisory, European Investment Bank
2. From start-up to scale up: catalyzing bioeconomy growth. Clara Martinez, Relationship Manager & Communications, European Circular Bioeconomy Fund
3. Financing the bioeconomy, Nicolò Giachino and Ela Yilmaz Akdeniz, Green Economy and Climate Action, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development

11:10-11:45 Panel discussion with speakers from the sessions

3^rd session: Mobilizing the BIOEAST macro-region

1.Baranyai-G.-Introduction-final-2021.-11.-15-masolata.pdf

2.Wydra-S.-Biobased-Innovations_Presentation_BioEast_15Nov_final.pdf

3.Vercauteren-I.-211115-Aphea.Bio-intro-to-BIOEAST.pdf

4.Akdeniz-Giachino-EBRD-Bioeast-project-cases.pdf

5.Bauer-J.Tungsram-Food-Autonomy_BioEast.pdf

6.Brzezicka-P.-BioEast-15.11.2021.pdf

7.Clara-M.-20211511_ECBF_Presentation_BioEast.pdf

8.Akdeniz-GiachinoEBRD-Bioeast-intro-presentation.pdf

BIOEAST Joint declaration _5 year _anniversary_15112021