This seminar aims to define a more integrated, connected and broader approach to the future implementation of biologically based training centers (called BBEC in the framework of the BIObec project), to explore the opportunity to transfer and replicate the BBEC formats in additional territorial bioeconomy ecosystems and involve additional members of the IRWG (Implementation and Replication Working Group). This group is essential for the future implementation of the BBECs, as it will participate in the project’s initiatives by providing input that will allow its structure and operation to be specified, at the same time as it will facilitate the replication of BIObec’s experience beyond the project.
The BIOBec project seeks to promote bioeconomy training. It proposes a framework that merges the traditional idea of a training center with that of a knowledge node. The project will establish biologically based training centers (BBECs) of various levels to act as knowledge nodes that reduce the gaps between academic institutions, students, innovation entities and those responsible for policy formulation. Likewise, BBECs are expected to be flexible enough to respond to the current and future needs of the industry and the surrounding local, regional and national ecosystem.
This project is aligned with the BBI roadmap with the aim of increasing cooperation between the Bio-Industry and the educational system to avoid skills shortages in this sector. This new project gives continuity to the UrBIOfuture project, which was coordinated by EDO-UAB in the period 2019-2020, the purpose of which was to identify what was the existing GAP between the skills required in the bioeconomy sector and those that offered in professional and university educational institutions.
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