Dr. Sebastian Losacker will organize the session 'Innovation in the Bioeconomy and Regional Sustainability Transitions: Promises, Pitfalls and Contradictions' in collaboration with Prof. Teis Hansen (University of Copenhagen) and Prof. Daniel Schiller (University of Greifswald).

Our research associate Tim Becker is the recipient of the 2023 Regional Studies Association Nathaniel Lichfield Award, which recognizes an original and outstanding contribution to the field of regional studies by a recent master's graduate.

The research group has given several presentations at the RSA Annual Conference in Ljubljana in the sessions "Current Issues in Environmental Economic Geography" and "Unconventional Data for Regional Studies". Dr. Sebastian Losacker also chaired the session "Current Issues in Environmental Economic Geography I".

Dr. Sebastian Losacker and Dr. Lukas Kriesch presented current research at the "16th Rauischholzhausen Symposium on Economic Geography" in Rauischholzhausen. Their presentation titled "Economic Geography of the Bioeconomy" showed how web data can be used to identify, locate and categorize bioeconomy companies. These findings provide a valuable basis for analyzing the bioeconomy in Germany.