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This website is the information managment platform of the CSA project ALCUE-KBBE (Contract No. 264266) confinanced by the europa commision´s 7th frame work program (2011-13).
The new bioeconomy is increasingly seen as a workable alternative to move today’s economies in the direction of more sustainable natural resource use and economic growth. In its essence it’s the coming together of biology, chemistry, materials sciences, genomics and information technology to better exploit natural resources both in agriculture and industry. The questions and challenge is whether the new concepts are of relevance for the small scale and what are the needed policies to promote and guide investments and the new institutions to ensure the safety of the new technologies and the equitable distribution of the benefits of the ensuing economic growth.
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Project Update (Jan 2012):
- Research activities in WP1 (benchmarking studies) are well advancing. A first draft of the “Concept Note on inclusive rural and economic development of KBBE opportunities in LAC” is being discussed and revised. Based on this, at the end of 2011, the Bioeconomy Policy Note 2011-01 “The Bioeconomy for Latin America and the Caribbean: opportunities and challenges from a policy perspective” was published (in English & Spanish).
- The EULARINET Working Group on Bioeconomy, is readying the formulation of recommendations on the Joint Initiative of Research & Innovation (JIRI) implementation, to be discussed at the Bi-regional ALCUE Senior Officials Meeting (SOM) in Concepcion, Chile 20-21 March’ 12. Three proposal concepts will be included: (i) Joint call on common priority bio-refineries/biomass RTD themes, (ii) Observatory of key bioeconomy related socio-economic, policy, regulatory indicators, (iii) Capacity Building, including a Bi-regional Master in Bioeconomy.
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