DESTINY Consortium
The DESTINY consortium includes 6 beneficiaries from the European Bioeconomy University alliance as well as 11 associated partners.
The European Bioeconomy University is an alliance of the six leading European universities in this field. It will act not only as a think tank for knowledge generation, but also as a creative hub for knowledge transfer to transform diversity into creativity, support the European approach of democratic, transparent and participative processes and foster actual change in an innovative and sustainable way.
DESTINY’s beneficiaries consist of 6 universities across Europe, all of them part of the European Bioeconomy University.
BENEFICIARIES
AgroParisTech (France)
AgroParisTech encompasses the multiple dimensions of bioeconomy from agricultural production, management of land and natural resources, forestry, sustainable and healthy food systems, biotechnologies to related socio-economic sciences, implementing this vision through its research, innovation and education activities, supporting both excellence and multidisciplinarity. As the French leading graduate school in this field, AgroParisTech offers MSc in Engineering, Master as well as PhD programmes and executive education covering bioeconomy topics in an integrative approach. AgroParisTech is a founding member of Université Paris-Saclay and has a long-standing strategic partnership with INRAe (National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment) for research activities.
AgroParisTech (France)
University of Bologna (UNIBO – Italy)
Through its 32 departments UNIBO invests in a multidisciplinary cross-cultural approach to bioeconomy thanks to the inseparable connection between research and teaching, the promotion of international networking and young researchers’ mobilization. The University of Bologna has dedicated a growing attention to the bieconomy R&I and is currently committed in 35 H2020 projects with a total EU contribution of over 12M€. Moreover, UNIBO can count also on a considerable experience in bioeconomy education among which are worth citing: the first European Master in Bioeconomy in the circular economy, Erasmus Mundus Joint doctorate in Sustainable Industrial Chemistry, Erasmus Mundus Master Course in Chemical Innovation and Regulation and an upcoming international Master in Low Carbon Technologies And Sustainable Chemistry.
University of Bologna (Italy)
University of Eastern Finland (UEF – Finland)
The strategic focus of UEF relating to the bioeconomy is on forests, wood and land use. Research and education in this domain focus on product and service innovations, and on the use of novel forest-, non-wood and wood-based material solutions, while addressing their ecological and social impacts. These include the sufficiency and governance of natural resources and the acceptability and responsibility of their use. UEF has several Master’s degree programmes related to the forest-based bioeconomy, including European Forestry, Wood Materials Science, and Tourism Marketing and Management programmes. The Doctoral Programme in Forests and Bioresources, too, focuses on the forest-based bioeconomy. More than half of the students in these programmes are international students. In addition, UEF has actively developed post-grad programmes and learning ecosystems for continuing learning, as an example Bioeconomy specializing studies for bioeconomy professionals.
University of Eastern Finland (Finland)
University of Hohenheim (UHOH – Germany)
The strategic focus of UEF relating to the bioeconomy is on forests, wood and land use. Research and education in this domain focus on product and service innovations, and on the use of novel forest-, non-wood and wood-based material solutions, while addressing their ecological and social impacts. These include the sufficiency and governance of natural resources and the acceptability and responsibility of their use. UEF has several Master’s degree programmes related to the forest-based bioeconomy, including European Forestry, Wood Materials Science, and Tourism Marketing and Management programmes. The Doctoral Programme in Forests and Bioresources, too, focuses on the forest-based bioeconomy. More than half of the students in these programmes are international students. In addition, UEF has actively developed post-grad programmes and learning ecosystems for continuing learning, as an example Bioeconomy specializing studies for bioeconomy professionals.
Courtesy to Nils Dittbrenner
University of Hohenheim (Germany)
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU – Austria)
Founded in 1872, BOKU does research and teaching in managing natural resources by combining natural, technical, social and economic sciences. With this setting, BOKU addresses most of the 17 SDGs defined by the United Nations covering conservation, sustainable management of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, food security, wood-processing and biotechnology. BOKU’s trans- and interdisciplinary philosophy tackles multiple challenges and is strongly application-oriented. BOKU’s key vision is sustainable development by contributing to the transformation processes towards a bio-based green economy for Europe.
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (Austria)
Wageningen University & Research (WUR – Netherlands)
WUR is one of the world’s leading education and research centres in the plant, animal, environmental, agro-technological, food and social sciences, and for seven consecutive times the best Agriculture University worldwide. Bioeconomy is a core area for research, education and innovation at WUR. The University counts several Educational programs in this area and this year a new MSc program Biobased Sciences has been initiated that explores the multidisciplinarity and interdisciplinarity of a Circular Bioeconomy.
Courtesy to Thomas Dotinga
Wageningen University & Research (Netherlands)
associated partners
Amadori Group (Italy)
Consorzio ItalBiotec (Italy)
Fraunhofer – IGD (Germany)
Hochschule Geißenheim University (Germany)
Ifeu GmbH (Germany)
Metsä Spring Ltd (Finland)
Stora Enso Oyj (Finland)
University of Jyväskylä (Finland)
Unverschwendet GmbH (Austria)
INRAE (France)
