The European Bioeconomy Alliance is a unique cross sector alliance dedicated to mainstreaming and realising the potential of the bioeconomy in Europe
What brings us together:
- The production and use of renewable resources as feedstock for making innovative, value-added everyday products and materials
- The commitment to maximise the unused potential of European renewable resources to encourage the production of bio-based products and materials “Made in Europe”
- Resource efficiency and sustainability as driving business principles
Our mission
The Alliance’s mission is to lead the transition towards a post-petroleum society. Recognising that the bioeconomy is still a relatively new political, economic and social concept, the Alliance will strive to:
- Raise EU, national and regional leaders’ awareness on the benefits of the bioeconomy and bio-based industries
- Make the bioeconomy mainstream above and beyond the research and innovation policy
- Mobilise and engage stakeholders to realise the European bioeconomy potential
- Advocate for a coherent, flexible and stimulating policy environment for bio-based solutions
Our reach
The European Bioeconomy Alliance sectors represent:
- about 4,700 companies (including 5,100 production sites and mills) as well as 12 million farm holdings and 16 million forest owners
- 29 million people employed, including:
- 1.8 million people in industry
- 26 million people in agriculture
- 1.4 million people in forestry
In 2016, the European Bioeconomy Alliance’s sectors
- Transformed about 340 million tonnes of agricultural or forestry raw materials (mainly cereals, cocoa beans, crude vegetable oil, rapeseeds, soybeans, starch potatoes, sugar beet, sunflower seeds, and wood)
- into 200 million tonnes of products (e.g. paper, pulp, starch products and ingredients, sugar, vegetable oils, vegetable proteins, wheat flour, bioplastics, ethanol and other innovative bio-based building blocks) and 447 million cubic meters of round wood.
Sources: the European Bioeconomy Alliance’s sectors’ own data, Eurostat, EU DG Agriculture & LEI Wageningen study on Primary Food Processing
