The ThinkForest event ‘Building an innovative and resilient forest bioeconomy’ was held at the International Press Center, Brussels on 15 November 2016.
How to build an innovative and resilient forest bioeconomy was the subject of discussion among speakers, panellists and the audience. Discussions focused on:
The potential the forest-based bioeconomy has to offer for sustainable growth and new investments in the EU
How new technologies could bring ‘added value’
How to raise awareness of this added value that forests are offering
How to create a common understanding of the sustainability of a forest-based bioeconomy, including the potential use of forest-based indicators for bioeconomy monitoring and assessment
Host: Miapetra Kumpula‐Natri, Member of the European Parliament
Chair: Göran Persson, ThinkForest President
Jyrki Katainen, European Commission Vice-President for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness
Anton Stredák, State Secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Slovak Republic
John Bell, Director, Bioeconomy, DG Research and Innovation
Fredrick Federley, MEP
Lauri Hetemäki, Assistant Director EFI
Elisabeth Köstinger, MEP
Bart Muys, Prof., Forest Ecology and Management Research Group, KU Leuven
Bernhard Wolfslehner, Head of EFI's Central-East and South-East European Regional Office – EFICEEC-EFISEE
