EMBRC PP2 – Workshop
“Regions´ support to blue biotechnologies value chains in Europe”
This workshop is organized in the framework of the pp2EMBRC project June 21, 2016 – 10.00 – 17.00 Bizkaia Aretoa, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain (http://www.ehu.eus/en/web/bizkaia-aretoa)
Organisers: Lucas Bosser (Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions, WP4 Co-leader) Ibon Cancio (University of the Basque Country, WP4 Co-leader)
The “European Marine Biological Resource Centre” (EMBRC) in an ESFRI roadmap pan-European research infrastructure, devoted to the provision of high profile services and research capabilities for the sustainable utilization of marine biological resources promoting the European blue bio-economy. The “Conference of Peripheral Maritime Regions” (CPMR) represents the vast majority of European coastal regions from 28 countries, that works to ensure that EU institutions and national governments take into account common regional interests, and cooperate on practical projects enhancing their assets. Thus, CPMR is a key stakeholder to mediate the EMBRC wide-scale relationship with regions and the EU. Research infrastructures such as EMBRC must ensure sustainability in the long run and thus need to strengthen the partnership with regional stakeholders. EMBRC laboratories and services are located in peripheral maritime regions, often far from the major knowledge and decision-making centres. Typically, marine stations are also geographically separated from major concentrations of industry and located in areas with unemployment rates above the European average. In their Smart Specialization Strategies (S3), several maritime regions fully recognize the potential of blue growth and the bioeconomy as a way to mitigate these problems, raise their position in the innovation scale, and attractiveness to human and financial capital. In order to develop their S3s the Regions have access to European structural and social funds. Therefore, partnerships with the regions will contribute to sustainability of EMBRC and to economic growth and employment in the regions. At the local scale EMBRC national nodes have already their own established regional relationships. On the other hand, the CPMR decision of partnering with EMBRC was approved at the CPMR Board meeting in Inverness in June 2014, and was incorporated in CPMR´s maritime agenda for the year 2015. In the project pp2EMBRC a Memorandum of Understanding to foster the future collaboration between CPMR and EMBRC has been developed. In addition the regional S3s of different maritime regions have been mapped to identify the regions where Blue Biotechnology, in its wider sense, is considered as relevant for the economic development of the regions. Such activities will be presented in the workshop. The idea being that developing the blue biotechnologies, and that a sustainable exploitation of marine bioresources, should constitute a mechanism to improve the economies in maritime regions, the workshop will count on a series of invited speakers that shall drive the focus on the following discussion points: .- How have the regions identified the exploitation and valorisation of Marine Biological resources in their RIS3s .- How can EMBRC connect with the regions so it is taken in consideration within the European Structural Funds Operational Programmes? .- How can the regional funds and the European Structural Funds be used in changing Blue Biotechnologies from an emerging activity to a driver of economy and employment in Europe? .- How can the regions take advantage of EMBRC to boost their activities around the sustainable utilization of Marine Biological Resources? .- How can regions collaborate in the implementation of activities around the utilization and valorisation of Marine Biological Resources? .- Where are the bottlenecks and emerging challenges for the regions in developing their own Blue Economies and the common European Blue Economy? .- How can regions become relevant stakeholders for EMBRC? AGENDA
“Regions´ support to blue biotechnologies value chains in Europe”
June 21, 2016 – 10.00 – 17.00 Bizkaia Aretoa, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain (http://www.ehu.eus/en/web/bizkaia-aretoa)
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Welcome coffee 9.30-10.00 Introduction Welcome address by the University of Basque Country: .- Fernando Plazaola Vice-rector of research UPV/EHU .- Ionan Marigómez Director of the Plentzia Marine Station, PiE-UPV/EHU 10.00-11.30 Round table: Blue biotechnologies value chains in European regions This session will focus on the prospects and relevance of the emerging Blue Biotechnologies for the research and economic growth value chains for Europe and the world in general Introduction EMBRC Member (Ibon Cancio) Presentations: Torgeir Edvardsen (OECD Senior economist, manager of the Future of the Oceans Economy project): “The future of the Ocean Economy, prospects for emerging ocean industries to 2030-an OECD analysis”. Ilaria Nardello (Executive Director of EMBRC) “ EMBRC research infrastructure: state of play, prospects for future development and for collaboration with CPMR” Lucas Bosser (Analyst of CPMR) “ How are marine bio-resources covered in regional smart-specialisation strategies in Europe?”
Discussion 11.30-12.00 Break 12.00-13.30 Round-table: Support from European regions to blue biotechnologies value chains This session and the following one will focus on concrete case-studies presented by regions explaining how the blue biotechnology economy has been developing on their territory, and through collaborations with other territories in Europe. The session will cover how regions are providing effective support to the development of blue biotechnologies through their policies (including through the use of European Strategy and Investment Funds). Introduction EMBRC Member Presentations: Crete (Heleni Hatziyanni, Directorate of Environment and Spatial Planning, Region of Crete), Schleswig-Holstein (Deniz Tasdemir, Director GEOMAR Centre for Marine Biotechnology, Kiel), Azores (Filipe Mora Porteiro, Diretor Regional, Direção Regional dos Assuntos do Mar, Secretaria Regional do Mar, Ciência e Tecnologia, Azores), Campania (Valeria Fascione, Assesore all regione Campania) Västra-Götaland (speaker to be confirmed, Västra-Götaland Cluster of Marine Biotechnology) Discussion 13.30-15.00 Lunch Break
15.00-16.30 Round-table: Support from European regions to blue biotechnologies value chains (continued) Galicia (Antonio Villanueva, EMBRC-Spain) The Brittany Region and its involvement in EMBRC France: converging political and financial support towards a new emerging sector (Nathalie Turque, EMBRC-France) Relevance of Blue Biotech in Israel (Simon Bercowicz, Hebrew University of Israel) The Basque Bio-Region: the land ocean of the Basques (Ibon Cancio, EMBRC- Spain) Discussion 16.30-17.00 Round table: governance of the EMBRC research infrastructure and future collaboration with CPMR and regions This session will include a discussion about the Memorandum of Understanding that has been signed between CPMR and EMBRC in order to organise future collaboration, leading to the final conclusions of the workshop. Presentation: Ibon Cancio and Lucas Bosser in the name of EMBRC– involvement of regions in EMBRC and Memorandum of Understanding EMBRC-CPMR Discussion and Conclusions Ibon Cancio in the name of EMBRC Lucas Bosser in the name of CPMR
17.00-18.30 Networking cocktail