Supported by the CBE JU, RootLinks empowers Europe’s Primary Producers across agriculture, forestry, and the blue bioeconomy to benefit from bioeconomy innovation, in this way contributing to EU’s Green Deal goals.
As stated by Martin Behrens, Senior Advisor at the Department of EU and International Cooperation at FNR: “Primary producers are the backbone of Europe’s bioeconomy. However, they have yet to fully benefit from innovations and new value chains.”
Supported by the Circular Bio-based Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU), RootLinks specifically addresses this issue, aiming to unlock the potential of a full integration in the bioeconomy value chains of PPs from three key sectors: agriculture, forestry and the blue bioeconomy.
Several hurdles obstruct this integration, such as limited awareness, poor communication, uneven benefits, rural isolation and complex regulations.
To overcome these challenges, RootLinks will establish and co-develop, under the umbrella of the CBE JU, the Working Group on Primary Producers (WGPP).
This Working Group – which brings together all project members and a steering group of selected representatives – will jointly co-create an Action Plan to address both horizontal and sector-specific challenges. Cross-sector meetings, exchange formats, co-creation activities, business-model transfer and peer-to-peer exchanges are only just some of the foreseen activities.
In line with the European Green Deal goals of building “a climate-neutral, green, fair and social Europe”, the project’s activities will both enable Primary Producers to fairly benefit from innovation and available European financial instruments, and support ecosystem restoration alongside the spread of circular bioeconomy models.
Discover more about RootLinks: read the full project launch press release.
