Boosting European citizens knowLedge and awareness of biOeconOMy research and innovation

Boosting
European bioeconomy research and innovation awareness in civil society

BLOOM
project boosts European citizens knowledge and awareness of bioeconomy research
and innovation. It operates with stakeholders in BLOOM hubs that locate around
Europe. BLOOM establishes open dialogues between civil society, bioeconomy
innovation networks, local research centers, business and industry stakeholders
and various levels of government including the European Commission.

BLOOM aims
to

•  (a) raise awareness and enhances knowledge on
  bioeconomy by enabling open and informed dialogue throughout the bioeconomy
  innovation processes

• (b) build up and strengthen a
  bioeconomy community,

• (c) facilitate a common
  understanding of the concept, providing reliable insights into bioeconomies,
  its practices, benefits and implications and

• (d) foster learning and education.

With these
aims in mind, the project will contribute towards dismantling existing barriers
that impede the development of a bioeconomy and bioeconomy activities at the
regional and EU level.

Finnish BLOOM hub focuses
in wood

BLOOM
operates through regional hubs. The hubs locate in Austria, Spain, Poland,
Nederlands, Finland and Sweden, and the hubs have different bioeconomy focus
areas, such as agriculture, food, wood and wood based products. One of regional
hubs locates in Central Finland and elaborates in Bioeconomy Campus. Central
Finland hub is focusing in wood and wood based products. The contact person of
Central Finland Hub is Project Manager Kirsi Knuuttila in Bioeconomy Institute
of JAMK University of Applied Sciences ([email protected]).

What is BLOOM project?

The
official name of BLOOM is Boosting
European citizens knowLedge and awareness of biOeconOMy research and innovation
(BLOOM). It is Horizon 2020 project and is carried out in 11/2017-10/2020.
BLOOM is coordinated by Zentrum für Soziale Innovation GmbH (AT). Other
partners are Wissenschaftsladen Bonn (DE), Wageningen Research (NL), European
Schoolnet (BE), MedienWerkstatt Linz (AT), Global EcoVillage Network – Europe
(ES), Campus de Excelencia Internacional en Agroalimentación (ES), Copernicus
Science Centre (PL), Uniwersytet Rolniczy Im. Hugona Kollatajaw Krakowie (PL), Vetenskap
& Allmänhet (SE), JAMK University of Applied Sciences (FI) and Ecosocial
Forum Europe (AT).

For further
information look up BLOOM website (http://www.bloom-bioeconomy.eu/) and BLOOM social media sites:

Twitter:
@BLOOM_EU

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