BIOVOICES project is organizing a virtual workshop to ease the dialogue among actors along the value chain (industry, policy makers, consumers, researchers, investors, feedstock providers, etc.) and to highlight challenges and opportunities for the valorisation of local resources in the bioeconomy framework in the light also of the current COVID-19 emergency.

Starting from the analysis of local feedstocks, speakers of the round table will present technologies solutions, innovative ideas, opportunities and challenges within the context of Marine bioeconomy. Thanks to interactive tools, the audience will be actively engaged in the co-creation of new solutions, business opportunities and concrete actions to boost local development through the potentialities offered by bioeconomy.

Research, authorities and enterprises will meet to discuss on opportunity to exploit, in sustainable way, fishery and aquaculture by-products and mediterranean marine resources to realize marine biobased products MBP and promote the circular economy. Speakers will focus on ethicals, productives and sustainables aspects, related to the production of BBP. Representative of the fisheries, aquaculture and processing sectors, will refer about the side effects that the COVID-19 pandemic is causing on the supplies and value-chains, giving suggestions, useful to promote new research strategies aimed to support them.