Biostep

the biostep project has received funding from the european union’s horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement no. 652682) and will run from march 2015 until february 2018. coordinated by ecologic institute, the collaborative project builds upon a highly interdisciplinary consortium of nine partners from five european countries. bioeconomy experts from germany, italy, bulgaria, the netherlands and the uk are taking part in the biostep project. our aim: the bioeconomy holds potential solutions to important challenges of the future. the social, economic and environmental impacts associated with its products and processes, however, will require extensive dialogue processes on the future development of the bioeconomy. for this purpose, biostep will apply a three-tier approach which aims at reaching all relevant actors in the bioeconomy domain, particularly policy makers, various stakeholder groups (scientists, business, nongovernmental organisations, etc.), and citizens