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The aim of BIOEAST is to develop a knowledge-based, sustainable and circular biomass-based economic strategy and to elaborate a macro-regional strategic research and innovation agenda for the Central-Eastern European macro-region specifying joint research and innovation priorities by 2022.
The Central-Eastern European Initiative for Knowledge-based Agriculture, Aquaculture and Forestry in the Bioeconomy – called BIOEAST in short – provides a joint research and innovation strategic framework for the development of sustainable biomass-based economic systems in the countries of Central-Eastern Europe. The open initiative was launched by the Visegrad Group countries – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – to which Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania and Slovenia also joined.
Within BIOEAST 5 specific macro-region level issues already have been identified where thematic working groups (TWG) were established in order to define joint research and innovation priorities and to develop the strategic research and innovation agenda: Thematic working group of forestry value chains (coordinator: Slovakia – Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and National Forestry Centre) Thematic working group of food systems (coordinator: Poland – Ministry of Agriculture and National Research Institute of Agriculture and Food Economy) Thematic working group of bioenergy and high added value products (coordinator: Croatia – Ministry of Agriculture and Energy Institute Hrvoje Pozar) Thematic working group of agroecology and sustainable yields (coordinator: Hungary – Ministry of Agriculture and the Hungarian Research Institute of Organic Agriculture) Thematic working group of freshwater and biomass-based economy (coordinator: the Czech Republic)Thematic working groups
