Copyright: Bioeconomy Council of the Federal Govermnment
Bioeconomy Forum 2023
04-05 December 2023
Location: Berlin
Lennart Fischer participated as one of 250 actors from science, business, politics, and administration in the Bioeconomy Forum of the Federal Government's Bioeconomy Council at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The aim of this year's Bioeconomy Forum was to engage with the Council's recommendations for action in implementing the national bioeconomy strategy and to discuss how a swift transformation of the economy and society can be better supported.
Copyright: GGS JLU
Location: Gießen
27 November 2023
Dr. Sebastian Losacker and Tim Becker held a workshop on 'Sustainability Transitions Towards a Future Bioeconomy: Case Studies From the Construction Sector' as part of the sustainability workshop organized by the Giessen Graduate Centre for Social Sciences, Economics and Law (GGS).
The workshop offered participants an in-depth insight into the concepts and potential of the bioeconomy in the context of sustainable regional development. Using case studies and practical examples from the construction sector, participants were encouraged to understand the connections between the economy, environment and society and to develop strategies for a sustainable bioeconomy. The bioeconomy holds enormous potential for transforming the construction sector, which causes considerable problems for the climate and the environment, for example through the use of environmentally harmful materials such as cement, steel and sand. Both simple bio-based products (e.g. timber construction, natural insulation materials) and technological innovations (e.g. wood mycelium, bioplastics) are already on the market. Nevertheless, the transformation process is slower than necessary - why is that? Answers to this question were sought together in the workshop.
Copyright: Projektleiter Jülich
Status meeting of the funding measure 'Bioeconomy as societal change'
10 November 2023
Location: Eberswalde
Dr. Sebastian Losacker and Dr. Lukas Kriesch participated in the status meeting of the junior research groups of the funding measure 'Bioeconomy as societal change' at the University for Sustainable Development (HNE) Eberswalde. The aim was to facilitate scientific exchange and professional networking between the junior research groups, where the researchers discussed their findings with each other as well as with representatives of the BMBF and officials from the Projektleiter Jülich (PtJ).
AK Industriegeographie - 38th annual meeting 2023
Location: Wiesbaden
09-11 November 2023
The junior research group gave various presentations on the topics of 'Web Mining', 'Socio-technical Imaginaries', and 'Green Windows of Opportunity' at the 38th annual meeting of the AK Industrial Geography in Wiesbaden. The aim of the meeting is to provide a forum for the discussion of current research concepts and completed as well as ongoing research projects in an informal atmosphere. Junior researchers and doctoral candidates are strongly encouraged to present their projects.
Presentations:
Moritz Schütz: "Leveraging Web Mining and Machine Learning to assess Regional Governance Priorities in Germany"
Tim Becker: "How to open green windows of opportunity in the construction sector? Insights from India and China"
Lennart Fischer: "Socio-technical Imaginaries of the sustainable construction sector in India"
02 November 2023
The special issue in Progress in Economic Geography seeks to bring together cutting-edge research, empirical insights, and theoretical advancements to shed light on the spatial aspects of innovation and sustainability transitions in the bioeconomy. We invite contributions that explore the geography of innovation in the bioeconomy, its effects on regional development, and its implications for sustainability transitions.
Copyright: Progress in Economic Geography
RSA Research Network on Transformative Knowledge Regions
Location: Gelsenkirchen
26-27 October 2023
Copyright: Regional Studies Association
Lennart Fischer held a presentation at the 'Regional Studies Association Research Network on Transformative Knowledge Regions' (TRAKR) on the topic of 'Socio-technical imaginaries of sustainable construction'. The aim of the research network is to examine the conceptual, methodological, empirical, and political dimensions of the transition from knowledge-intensive to 'transformative knowledge regions'. The network brings together scholars from the fields of the geography of knowledge and sustainability transitions, as well as established and early career researchers.
Presentation:
Lennart Fischer: "Socio-technical imaginaries of sustainable construction"
German Congress of Geography 2023
Location: Frankfurt on the Main
19-23 September 2023
The junior research group delivered various presentations at the German Congress of Geography in Frankfurt on the Main, in the sessions "Environmental-oriented Economic Geography: Establishment of a Plural Paradigm?" and "GeoAI: Potentials, Applications, and Challenges of a Current Methodology in Geography." Dr. Sebastian Losacker also chaired the sessions "Environmental-oriented Economic Geography: Establishment of a Plural Paradigm?" and "Geography of Sustainability Transformations: Topics, Concepts, and Research Perspectives".
Copyright: Deutscher Kongress für Geographie
Presentations:
Dr. Sebastian Losacker: "Spatial Concentration of Eco-Innovation"; "A plea for a (re)newal of environmental-oriented economic geography"
Tim Becker: "Regional impacts of the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): Innovation and Technological Change in Environmental Technologies"
Dr. Lukas Kriesch: "Web Mining and Natural Language Processing in Geography using the example of German company websites"
Moritz Schütz: "Leveraging Web Mining and Machine Learning to assess Regional Governance Priorities in Germany"
In an interview with bioökonomie.de under the title "Understanding Regional Differences on the Path to Sustainable Construction", Dr. Sebastian Losacker discusses the research project TRABBI. The conversation covers the potentials of bioeconomy for the construction sector, the central questions of the TRABBI junior research group, the research methods used in the project, the selection of case study countries, as well as the potentials of the insights gained in the project for promoting transformation processes towards a sustainable bioeconomy.
