About BERST catalogue of Instruments & Measures
This Catalogue of Instruments & Measures is an integral part of the European FP7-KBBE Framework Programme 7 - Knowledge Based BioEonomy project BERST ‘Bioeconomy regional strategy toolkit’. The project aims to support regionsA region is any geographically meaningful entity (not necessarily a political or administrative), as a combination of biological, social and geographic criteria. Preferably based on NUTS2/NUTS3 (Eurostat), but can be other as well in Europe to develop smart bioeconomyThe bioeconomy encompasses the production of renewable biological resources and the conversion of these resources and waste streams into value added products, such as food, feed, bio-based products and bioenergy. strategies.
The Catalogue provides detailed information on Instruments and MeasuresAn Instrument or measure can be broadly interpreted as a policy, law, method, mechanism, tool or action, used by governments, the profit or non-profit sector or society as a whole to boost the development of biobased economies.
Instruments and Measures can address e.g.;
i. information and education (e.g. awareness campaigns, training, skill building,…)
ii. economic and financial instruments (e.g. support schemes, subsidies,…)
iii. research, development and deployment activities (e.g. research clusters, research agenda’s,…)
iv. regulatory (binding) instruments (e.g. legislation, policy,…)
v. voluntary (non-binding) initiatives (e.g. position papers, strategies,…) facilitating bioeconomy development in regions throughout Europe. The Catalogue can be useful for a wide variety of stakeholders from regional policy makers over local entrepreneurs to profit and non-profit organisations.
For each Instrument & Measure information is provided on:
- A set of descriptive Criteria such as; the targeted region(s), the goal, a short discription, contact information, the sector targeted,...
- To which extent the Instrument & Measures helps realising (one or more of) the ObjectivesA list of 12 objectives has been defined.
1. Address the (multilevel) cooperations needed to start biobased businesses
2. Availability of financial resources
3. Building a strong research, development and innovation base
4. Building competitive biobased industries
5. Creating a reliable and enabling policy setting
6. Creating an attractive environment including infrastructure
7. Enable a reliable and constant availability of biomass feedstock
8. Enhancing the creation of jobs and ensuring availability of required skills (education/training)
9. Fostering effective governance and involvement of the society
10. Fostering the development of strong biobased markets
11. Learning from the strategies/actions of other regions, clusters,... relevant for the deployment of a regional bioeconomy.
How can you use the Catalogue?
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The following video explains the catalogues main functionalities
Webinar – Biobased Instruments & Measures Catalogue from VITObelgium on Vimeo.
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You can search the Catalogue by:
- Filtering the Instruments & Measures using the descriptive Criteria of your preference (e.g. the type of measure, the targeted region, the type of feedstock or the sector targeted by the Instrument & Measures. To do so click Search by Criteria.
- Filtering the Instruments & Measures in function of the specific Objectives they realise. To do so click Search by Objective
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You can add new Instruments & Measures to the catalogue. To do so click Add Instruments & Measures.
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You can update/review existing Instruments & Measures in the catalogue. To do so click (under development)
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You can comment on existing Instruments & Measures in the catalogue. To do so 'log in' and use the Comment Box available at bottem of each Instrument & Measure description page.
Who can I contact?
biobased@vito.be (Ruben Guisson - VITO)
Note: This catalogue of Instruments & Measures is an integral part (WP2) of the BERST project. See the image below for a project overview and brief description.