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The Slovak Presidency together with European Commission under the auspices of Standing Committee of Agricultural Research (SCAR) is going to organise a conference on the role of EU regions in developing a sustainable European Bioeconomy. The aim of the BBEC2016 is to discuss with national and regional stakeholders the new bioeconomy context for the agriculture, forestry and fisheries, the role of research and innovation to overcome the big societal challenges ahead of us and also to identify the barriers in the regions in adapting the bioeconomy strategy. The wider objective is to raise awareness in the EU regions, on the need for bioeconomy strategy building, giving particular emphasis to the Central and Eastern European countries, to bring to the attention of EU policy makers the regional and international aspects of the Bioeconomy, and to raise awareness among stakeholders on the possibilities offered by these new aspects at regional and international level.

The BBEC2016 will also discuss how regions can benefit from relevant EU instruments and initiatives that can support regional bioeconomy clusters beside the Horizon 2020, such as the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) and smart specialisation strategies (RIS3). The conference has the ambition to follow the 4th SCAR Foresight Stakeholder Conference, the 2015 Bioeconomy Investment Summit, the 2015 Global Bioeconomy Summit and the Bioeconomy Utrecht 2016 Conference held in April 2016.

Programme: http://bioeconomybratislava2016.eu/program.html

Registration is now open: http://bioeconomybratislava2016.eu/registration.html

Conference venue: Grand Hotel River Park a Luxury Collection Hotel.

More information can be found on: http://bioeconomybratislava2016.eu/index.html