Horizon Europe Project BioFairNet: Fair Bioeconomy and Circular Economy Network A digitally fair and accessible network for GHG reduction activities with circular and bioeconomy models

Type Project
Status Signed
Execution 2025 -2028
Assigned Budget 4.673.258,75 €
Scope Europeo
Autonomous community Asturias, Principado de
Main source of financing Horizon Europe 2021-2027
Project website https://doi.org/10.3030/101181568

Description

Industries such as agriculture and mining are some of the largest sources of greenhouse gases, fueling climate change. These sectors face pressure to reduce emissions, but the path to sustainability is complex. Many companies lack the tools and knowledge to make this shift, and collaboration between experts, governments, and industries is lacking. This gap slows progress toward a greener economy. With this in mind, the EU-funded BioFairNet project will create a digital network for collaboration.

Through this platform, stakeholders can share ideas, co-create solutions, and map out sustainable practices. The project's goal is to support agriculture and mining in the transition, with a web-based tool built with input from those directly involved.

Objectives

The Fair Bioeconomy and Circular Economy Network (BioFairNet) is designed to drive the transformation of specific hotspots and value chains, highly dependent on greenhouse gas (GHG)-emitting industries, into leaders of a sustainable biocircular economy through a digital cooperative network. The network, understood as a digital platform and stakeholder engagement, maps, informs, transfers knowledge, and facilitates communication between them to support their ecological transition.

This is achieved through co-creation, testing, and validation. The final product is built with key stakeholders, aiming to bridge the gap on this issue between experts, public administration, businesses, and other stakeholders. The project delves into two sectors: agriculture and mining, and through a co-creation process, describes current practice. It visualizes in practical, social, and economic terms what these sectors will look like after the transition and outlines a path to achieve it. The knowledge and tools needed to support this journey will be translated into a web-based transition tool that will be developed and implemented with end users. In fact, the final product (a network, identified as BioFairNet) that this project aims to build will be created with the stakeholders themselves.

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