Events program
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09/11/2016 - 10:00 a.m. -05:30 p.m. Memo
BIOBASED INDUSTRY, BIOECONOMY & BLUE GROWTH - Convegno
Place: Biobased Industry Room
BEACON EVENT: Horizon 2020 and the bio-based industries joint undertaking (BBI JU): opportunities for jobs and growth in the mediterranean region
Co-Organizers: Biobased industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU), European Commission, The Italian Green Chemistry Cluster, University of Bologna
Bioeconomy and the bio-based industries provide a prominent opportunity for growth and jobs in Europe. The Mediterranean region is lagging behind in these sectors if compared with Northern EU Regions (SCAR-Eurostat, 4th foresight 2015), despite the great potential in terms of availability of agricultural, forestry and marine bioresources as well as rural and marginal land exploited. Horizon 2020 and the Bio-based Industries (BBI) Initiative, the private-public partnership operating under the rules of Horizon 2020, offer important opportunities to support tailored local R&I actions, while creating interconnections among sustainable agriculture, forestry, industry and Blue Growth. The conference aims at identifying common challenges and opportunities for the bioeconomy and the bio-based industries in the Mediterranean Region, and also analysing the R&I potential offered by Horizon 2020 and the BBI Initiative.
Draft Programme
10.00 Welcome
John Bell, Director European Commission - DG RTD; Philippe Mengal, Executive Director Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking; José Manuel Gonzalez Vicente, Chair of the BBI States Representatives Group (SRG)
10.20 The Bioeconomy and the bio-based industries in the Mediterranean region
Chairs: Stefano Firpo, Italian Ministry for Industrial Development & Catia Bastioli, CEO Novamont and President Cluster Green Chemistry
Bioeconomy in the frame of Horizon2020: priorities and opportunities
Waldemar Kutt, European Commission . Head of Unit DG RTD
Bio-based Industries Initiative: aim, actions and opportunities
Philippe Mengal, Executive Director, Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking
The Bio-based industry consortium (BIC) and the bio-based industry in Europe
Giulia Gregori, Novamont, Italy
11.10 Round Table: Bioeconomy and bio-based industries in the countries of the region: barriers, needs and opportunities
A speaker from each of the following Countries: Fabio Fava (Italy and Malta), José Manuel Gonzalez Vicente (Spain), Julien Dugue (France), Electra Papadopoulou (Greece), Mateja Dermastia (Slovenia), Ioannis Vyrides (Cyprus) and Maria Joao Fernandes (Portugal) (10 min each max.)
12.40 The bio-based industries and bioeconomy in the southern countries of the Mediterranean region: barriers, needs and opportunities.
Paul Colonna, INRA, France
13.00: Conclusions (by Stefano Firpo & Catia Bastioli)
13.10 Lunch
14.10 How Horizon 2020 and the BBI Initiative is supporting a sustainable and competitive bioeconomy and bio-based industries in the Mediterranean region
Chairs: Waldemar Kutt, European Commission - DG RTD; Philippe Mengal, Executive Director Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking
14.15 Examples of BBI Initiative funded projects promoting bioeconomy in the Mediterranean area
Catia Bastioli, FIRST2RUN (Flagship on agro-food chain based biorefinery)
Javier Branas, NEWFERT (RIA on biowaste exploitation)
Gianluca Belotti, AGRIMAX (DEMO, agricultural and food waste valorisation based on flexible multi-feedstocks biorefinery processing technologies for new high added value applications)
15.00 Examples of Horizon 2020 funded projects promoting bioeconomy in the Mediterranean area
Marjeta Čandek-Potokar, TREASURE (RIA, on animal production)
Daniele Colombo, PROBIO (CSA, implementation of the results of KBBE projects carried out in the MED)
16.00 Round Table: stakeholders´ suggestions on how Horizon 2020 and BBI Initiative can contribute exploiting bioeconomy potential in the Mediterranean region
Chair: Christian Patermann
Speakers: Joaquin Villar (Spain); Mateja Dermastia (Slovenia), Vittorio Maglia (Italy), Maria Joao Fernandes (Portugal); Julien Dugue (France), Electra Papadopoulou (Greece), Ioannis Vyrides (Cyprus)
17.20 Conclusions and future actions
Chairs: Waldemar Kutt, European Commission . Head of Unit DG RTD, Philippe Mengal, Executive Director Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking and José Manuel Gonzalez Vicente, Chair of the Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking States Representatives Group (SRG)
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