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).

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).

Dr. Sebastian Losacker and Dr. Lukas Kriesch participated in the status meeting of the junior research groups funded under the initiative “Bioeconomy as Societal Change” at the Eberswalde University of Sustainable Development (HNE Eberswalde). The aim of the event was to foster academic exchange and professional networking among the junior research groups. Researchers had the opportunity to discuss their findings with one another as well as with representatives from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Projektträger Jülich (PtJ).

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.

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.

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 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".

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.

Dr. Sebastian Losacker presented current research at the 14th International Sustainability Transitions Conference (IST) in Utrecht.

The junior research group organized a workshop on the topic of "Advanced Methods for Measuring Economic and Innovation Activities in the Bioeconomy."