Category: Stakeholders engagement and co-creation

Deliverable 2.1. Bio-based stakeholders completed and classified list

Establishment of a network of stakeholders in the biobased industry sector where all participant had put an input.
Main activities were dedicated to unlock the full potential of European bio-based industries, by contact with the Industry Expert Group (IEG) set-up by the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), as the main representatives of the bio-based industry among the UrBIOfuture Working Group.

Deliverable 4.1. Results from the dynamic workshop fostering dialogue organization

The present document summarises the activities developed in order to organize the UrBIOfuture Dynamic Workshop (DW), one of the key project events for fostering collaborative academia-industry dialogue, validating preliminary results, and obtaining high valued feedback from the bioeconomy experts gathered by the project.

BE-Rural: Concept for a pop-up store with bio-based products and participatory events

BE-Rural aims to realise the potential of regional and local bio-based economies by supporting relevant actors in the participatory development of bioeconomy strategies and roadmaps.

This BE-Rural report introduces the concept of bio-based pop-up stores and explains why it is a suitable instrument to inform about the bioeconomy and aspects of the larger sustainability debate.  Bio-based pop-up stores will be organised in each of the BE-Rural target regions (Stara Zagora in Bulgaria, Vidzeme and Kurzeme in Latvia, Strumica in North Macedonia, Szczecin Lagoon and Vistula Lagoon in Poland, and Covasna in Romania).

The report explains how the pop-up store is embedded into the larger BE-Rural project framework and explains how it will contribute to achieving the project objectives. The report provides design visualisation examples and lists potential educational materials (publications, videos, apps, games etc.), which will be made available to guests alongside the exhibits. The report’s annex presents a list of bio-based products that are currently considered to be included in the pop-up stores.

Training Guide Social Acceptance – Developing dialogue with your stakeholders. Applying social acceptance tools to avoid barriers in bio-based projects

Many companies implementing emerging technologies encounter barriers or objections from consumers or local stakeholders. “Social acceptance” is the result of a process where stakeholders and project leaders work together to find solutions to these barriers and objections. It is important to be aware that the stakeholders affected by a new product or process go way beyond the SME’s customer base. Involving stakeholders in a series of activities to establish relationships is essential – there are tools for this. Tools will enable SMEs to achieve legitimacy and credibility regarding the stakeholder, form a strong and well-communicated company mission statement and clear long-term vision and set up long-term connections with their stakeholders, resulting in trust. This guide takes you through the context and the theory behind the social acceptance concept. It addresses SME managers and business support organisations, presenting a number of tools which can be useful for those launching new products or services in the bio-based economy, and beyond.

The CommBeBiz Bioeconomy Photo Competition

The CommBeBiz Bioeconomy Photo Competition is an annual competition which has run for the duration of the CommBeBiz project. Each year we have asked researchers across Europe to submit exciting and imaginative images which convey some aspect of research in the bioeconomy within Europe.