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Bioeconomy Innovation

Day 2024

On 5 June 2024 in Lemgo, North Rhine-Westphalia, the Bioregions Facility with its partners organise an intensive one-day event gathering forest innovators and leaders from industry, government, research, and other key stakeholders in the forest bioeconomy.

The development and uptake of renewable, circular solutions are essential for achieving the green transition – and a stronger reliance on bio-based products and materials is key to this.

Today, construction, food packaging, and industrial manufacturing are highly material-intensive sectors that must be transformed into circular and increasingly bio-based sectors.

The Bioregions Facility has adopted this vision. Its implementation requires bridging the knowledge-innovation divide, speeding up the uptake of new solutions, and strengthening cross-sectoral collaboration.

When: 5 June 2024
Where: TH OWL Lemgo Campus in Campusallee 12, 32657 Lemgo, Germany

Bioeconomy Innovation Day 2024

An exciting networking event featuring forward-looking keynotes, high-impact pitches of innovative solutions, and networking opportunities. The Bioeconomy Innovation Day 2024 was held on 5 June 2024 in Lemgo, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

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Kerto® LVL is a strong, rigid, and lightweight Laminated Veneer Lumber made from bonded softwood veneers, used in various construction projects.

The Nature2Bond project has developed an innovative method to produce 100% bio-based, sustainable, and non-toxic bio-glues.

CircuLignum seeks to enhance the sustainability of wood use by leveraging expertise in industrial engineering, digitalisation, and wood technology.

Strong by form is focused on creating technological innovations within the construction, interiors and automotive industries.

Land Life is a technology-driven reforestation company that plants trees on a large scale

WOWnature is a web-based platform that contribute to growing new forests and preserving existing ones by planting and adopting trees.

Ecobase is a company specialised in developing afforestation and forestry carbon projects in Europe.

Ecosystem Value Alliance Foundation (eva foundation) is dedicated to enhancing the value of ecosystem services and promoting private investments in forest adaptation.

MicoQR is a mobile Android app developed by Cesefor that enables traceability and guarantees the legality of the purchase and sale of wild mushrooms.

Agenda – 5 June 2024 (CEST)

8:15 | Registration
9:00 | Welcoming words
Speaker: Welcoming words by the Ministry and organisers
9:30 | Keynote speech: Bioeconomy Council of North Rhine-Westphalia
Speaker: Prof. Katja Frühwald-König, Professor, TH OWL
10:00 | Keynote speech: Realising the circular wood-based bioeconomy – striped unicorns, circular rainbows, and truths difficult to share
Speaker: Veronika Auer, Product Sustainability Communication, EGGER Group
10:30 | Networking and coffee

Pitch session 1: New opportunities for forest owners

11:00 | Keynote speech: New value streams and opportunities for forest owners in Europe
Speaker: Petra Palátová, Lecturer and researcher, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
MicoQR: Making the best of forest mushrooms by Pablo Sabin, Director, Cesefor
Ecosystem Value Association: Keeping nature valuable by Elias Raiser, Value-chain manager, EVA
Ecobase: Realising the value of carbon sequestration in European forests by Per Forssberg, Head of Business Development, Ecobase
WOWnature: Post-natural disturbances forest restoration through private funding by Federico Corrò, Forestry Project Officer, Etifor
Land Life: Future Forests: why quality and integrity are critical in reforestation efforts by Jessie Hurst, Chief Operating Office, Land Life
12:20 | Lunch and networking

Pitch session 2: Advanced and circular bio-based solutions

13:40 | Keynote speech: Towards a more sustainable wood-based sector
Speaker: Dr. Daniela Klein, Research Services and Team leader JAS analytics, Jowat SE
Strong by form: Revolutionising industries with lightweight timber-based solutions by Andrés Mitnik, CEO, Strong By Form
CircuLignum: From a line to a circle – changing the economy in small steps by Noemi König, Deputy chairwoman and Martin Tremmel, Treasurer, CircuLignum
WOODC.A.R and CARpenTiER: Wood as a sustainable lightweight construction material in the mobility sector by Thomas Krenke, Scientific lead, Innovationszentrum-Weiz
Metsä Wood: New innovations in hybrid construction – towards a more sustainable future by Kalle Ikonen, Manager, Corporate Affairs – European Union, Metsä
Nature2Bond: Bio-based sustainable adhesive system by Anuj Kumar, Senior Scientist, Luke
15:00 | Coffee break

Networking session: Initiatives for supporting innovation in forest and wood-based bioeconomy

15:30 | Panel discussion
Zentrum Holz: Supporting innovation in forest and wood-based bioeconomy in North Rhine-Westphalia by Dr Lukas Emmerich, Head of Research and Demonstration Laboratory, Wald und Holz NRW
Forestry Hub of Catalonia: Catalonia’s forest bioeconomy innovation support by Neus Puy, Head of Bioeconomy, Health and Governance Programme, CTFC
Future Forest Initiative: Germany’s first forest start-up accelerator by Christoph zu Stolberg, Head of International Relations and Forest Lab, FFI
Woodknowledge Wales: Enabling innovation through collaboration across the wood value chain by Christiane Lellig, Specialist Advisor Regenerative Systems Change Woodknowledge Wales
17:00 | Networking reception
18: 00 | End of the Bioeconomy Innovation Day 2024