Bioeconomy

Bioeconomy is the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources (including waste streams) into value added products. Its sectors and industries have strong innovation potential due to their use of a wide range of sciences, enabling and industrial technologies, along with local and tacit knowledge.1 The forest bioeconomy focuses on innovations in the circular use of forest products and resources. In the Mediterranean, forest bioeconomy has a strong focus on business models for Non-Wood Forest Products, recreational uses of forests, and social inclusion.

New agenda focuses on Mediterranean forest resilience in the face of climate change

The Mediterranean forest research community has a new mandate for action to strengthen the resilience of Mediterranean forest ecosystems over the next...

New Resin Data Observatory from GORESINLAB

The Operational Group Resinlab (GO-RESINLAB) recently established a new Resin Data Observatory. The observatory collects information on the activity of resin production,...
Screenshot from the video with the infographics on stone pines and pine nuts.

New videos explain the wonders of the pine ecosystems in Portugal to children

The Portuguese Competence Centre for Umbrella Pine and Pine Nut – Centro de Competências do Pinheiro manso e do Pinhão (CCPMP) –...
Open Innovation Challenges - Bioregions

Open Innovation Challenge on forest bioeconomy in European regions

The Bioregions Facility of the European Forests Institute has launched its Open Innovation Challenge, in order to identify and support the uptake...
Wood-based insulation

Forestry Speed Dating: Wood-based insulation

Wood construction is seen as a prominent solution to reduce and reverse climate change as it is a way to capture and...
Woman and kid in a forest

Place branding and forests: a win-win alliance for rural development 

Nowadays, branding is not only about products and goods, but also about places. The concept of place branding has become truly relevant...
Aerial view of a forest in autumn

Two open positions on Climate-Smart Forestry at EFI

The European Forest Institute (EFI) is looking for two researchers to work on Climate-Smart Forestry. To reinforce EFI's Bioeconomy...
MFRA 4

Sign up for the final MFRA 2030 webinar on forest-based bioeconomy

Over the past three weeks, a series of weekly webinars delved into the main themes of the Mediterranean Forest Research Agenda (MFRA)...
Camino de Santiago

Mountains and their sustainable management are leading aspects of the Way of St James

PEFC Galicia, the Galician Association for the Promotion of Forest Certification, presented its "PEFC on the French Way" project - an initiative...
Cork forest

Supporting cork oak forests in tackling climate change

The Catalan Cork Institute Foundation is starting a demonstration project "Dissemination of new cork oak forest management techniques to improve its productivity...

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4th Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week

The 4th Mediterranean Plant Conservation Week (4th MPCW) is a congress that aims to bring together researchers and managers related to the...

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