Biorural

BioRural seeks to promote currently available small-scale bio-based solutions with a view to strengthen Bioeconomy in European rural areas.

A bio-economy & knowledge exchange network

BioRural is a European project that seeks to support the implementation of innovative, sustainable small-scale solutions in rural European regions by creating a framework for the transition to a sustainable, inclusive and circular Bioeconomy across Europe. It aims to do this by promoting the use of renewable biological resources such as crops, forests, fish, animals and microorganisms to produce food, materials and energy.

Practically it pursues to fill the existing gap between the available sustainable innovations in various sectors and their application in daily life.The project promotes the exchange of knowledge and investigates the business opportunities for rural development. In total, 19 partners, including incommon, from 14 different countries have been brought together and will join their efforts for the next 3 years, starting in September of 2022, with funding from the Horizon Europe programme.

Completed program I Implementation period 2022-2025

Co-funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the Foundation for the Management of European Lifelong Learning Programmes. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. Project ID: 2025-1-CY01-KA210-SCH-000359057.

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or Research Executive Agency. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.

The role of incommon

In the BioRural Horizon Europe project, incommon had a pivotal role as a regional innovation partner, for the transition toward a circular bioeconomy within the South-Eastern hub.

By leveraging expertise in participatory design and community engagement, incommon facilitated stakeholder mapping, capacity building, and led tasks for the organization and implementation of national and regional workshops to empower rural actors, primary producers, SMEs, and local entities in rural Europe. To that end, incommon co-developed a replicable methodology and designed the tools of the participatory activities of the 42 national workshops that were carried out by all partners across the entire ERBN – the results of which led to a published paper (in press; DOI pending).

Incommon facilitated the first Greek workshop in Karditsa. We then designed the methods and tools for the two-day Regional Workshops (Task lead) which culminated in the European Bioeconomy Challenge (also designed by incommon), a celebration of creativity, sustainability, and collaboration that marked the closing event of the entire project.

Our other activities focused on identifying rural bio-based success stories (Task lead), promoting the BioRural Toolkit, and developing sustainable business model blueprints that bridge the gap between high-level research and local application. The primary outcomes of our involvement included the expansion of the European Rural Bioeconomy Network (ERBN), increased regional resilience through supporting and disseminating small-scale bio-based solutions, and the promotion of inclusive rural development strategies that deliver high-value bio-based solutions across Europe.

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The Biorural toolkit

By registering here, your initiative or business is added to an interactive Bioeconomy map, where you can upload your own commercial biobased solutions, access research findings and funding opportunities, receive the newsletter with invitations to workshops and seminars and in general have access to the entire BioRural toolkit that includes:

Project completed- Implementation period 2022-2025