The eleventh lecture, on Circular Bioeconomy Start-Uo Villages: From Idea to Market will be held at Aula, TU Graz, 24 October 2024, 19:00 – 21:00 CET. The lecture is also accessible online.

Invited Lecture by: Evelyn Reinmuth (short CV below), UNI Hohenheim, DE

Response 1: Kristina Šermukšnytė-Alešiūnienė, AgriFood Lithuania, LT
Response 2: Annalisa Spalazzi, The Gran Sasso Science Institute, IT
Chair: Fabio Maria Montagnino, The Cyprus Institute, CY
Host: Rector TU Graz
 

Rural areas in Europe struggling with development setbacks due to globalization and urbanization, compounded by declining and aging population. The European Commission is outlining a comprehensive vision for the rural regions up to 2040 that involves initiatives like Start-Up Villages. Start-Up villages embraces innovation and entrepreneurship by combining local place and people with external resources and markets to create interdependence ecosystem. This lecture introduces circular bioeconomy start-up villages, outlining the strategy from the idea to market, and presents two case- study villages from Cyprus and Lithuania. The main lecture is followed by responses which will cover the start-up concept in the village, place-based approach to problem solving, existing initiatives and transformative resilience. This lecture will also highlight the usage of local resources to create new opportunities.
 

Join us for this exceptional lecture!
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About Evelyn Reinmuth:
As head of Bioeconomy Office Hohenheim, Dr. Evelyn Reinmuth promotes the sustainable, innovative implementation of a circular Bioeconomy through various projects and a multi stakeholder approach. She integrates the expertise of more than 100 departments and cooperates with researchers of all three faculties of the University of Hohenheim. Science communication complements her work. Beyond that, she is an expert in interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary teaching concepts for undergraduate research experiences (URE). She is the coordinator of the
European Startup Villages Hub of the University Alliances.
 

As a researcher she pursues integrated system modelling of bioeconomy solutions to approach the transition towards a sustainable circular bioeconomy. She is particularly interested in understanding how to obtain a high quality of biobased intermediates from agri- food side-streams for various industrial processes, given “food first”. All modelling approaches will yield in the identification of sustainable implementation strategies of deep tech innovations, skill-development needs, and partially also policy recommendations for existing frameworks.