UrBIOfuture Workshop

Today, June 26th, the UrBIOfuture Project Workshop takes place in Brussels, where Dulce Tienda Martagón and Aleix Barrera attended as members of the EDO Group, along with some thirty professionals linked to the biologically based industry within the framework of the European project UrBIOfuture, co-financed by the Bio-Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) within the framework of the Horizon 2020 program.

The project, led by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) with the help of the EDO Group, began in May 2019 with the aim of promoting European education in bioeconomy through the creation of university careers, new training programs and activities of research in a booming sector.

The conference, organized by CTA, an entity associated with the project, aims to detect the training needs of the European bioeconomy sector. The results extracted from the session will serve to complete the analyzes that UrBIOfuture is developing on the gaps between the European educational offer and the needs of companies in the biologically based sector. This educational gap is one of the challenges set by the European Commission for the development of the bioeconomy, since it requires a new profile that crosses the boundaries of existing industrial sectors and that involves other academic disciplines.

To achieve the objective of the day, the participants will be divided into four working groups in which the necessary skills for the digitization of the sector will be discussed; soft skills for innovation and entrepreneurship; and the basic skills in Circular Bioeconomy, both for technical profiles and for business development, marketing and communication profiles.

For more information about the UrBIOfuture project, click here.