Irish Bioeconomy Foundation

EU Legislative Interests

One of the Irish Bioeconomy Foundation (IBF) missions is to contribute to a fact-based policy making, striving to improve bioeconomy-related policy making, in particular appertaining to the domains of agri-food, forestry, marine, bioenergy. Specifically IBF seeks to make policy makers aware of the latest industrial and technology trends developed within the target markets and support its members and partners in disseminating their main opportunities and hurdles for technological advancement ability to meet ongoing societal challenges and sustainable development goals, and how the same are strongly affected by effective or less effective policy making. In that context, IBF seeks to directly or indirectly influencing the formulation or implementation of policy and the decision-making processes of the EU institutions, in particular the European Parliament and the European Commission. Direct contacts with MEP and their support staff is sought and achieved, either in person, or via printed material or e-material. Further, the organisation of meetings and promotional activities is also foreseen, to be featuring MEP and their staff. Finally, voluntary contributions and participation in formal consultations or hearings on envisaged EU legislative or other legal acts and other open consultations is ongoing. Our latest specific policy interest and targets include: Horizon Europe, European Partnership for a circular bio-based Europe (CBE), Common Agricultural Policy, Plastic Strategy, Circular Bioeconomy Thematic Investment Platform (ECBF). Furthermore, we have a strong interst in the Biotech Act, the eventual implementation of the Draghi Report, as well as an interest in the activities of organised interst group such as EuropaBio, the European BioSolution Coalition and COPA COGECA. Lately, we are actively working on regulatory sandboxes on the topic of alternative proteins and cellular agriculture. The updated bioeconomy strategy, and the biotech act II, is another key target for us, as well as any legislation involving N/P ratios regulation in water and land..

Communication Activities

- Irish Bioeconomy Implementation Group 2019 - Progress Report, multiple mentions to IBF/Lisheen: https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/press/pressreleases/2019/september/title,131892,en.html - National Bioeconomy Ireland Day 2018, Week 2019: http://www.irishbioeconomy.ie/ https://www.sfi.ie/research-news/news/creed-beacon-sfi-bioecon/index.xml#targetText=Prof%20Kevin%20O'Connor%2C%20Director,new%20opportunities%20for%20Irish%20industry. - Support to partner organisations sector-specific communication activities (bioenergy, compost, bioplastics) http://www.cre.ie/web/quality-standards/ - ICT-BIOCHAIN: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/217702/factsheet/en - MPOWERBIO: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/887501 - BIObec: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101023381 - BioeconomyVentures: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101023260 - RuralBioUp: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101060618 - Bio4Human: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135144 - PRIMED: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135353 - BOOST4BIOEAST: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101133398 - APROVALS: https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101158173 - NPower https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101181873

Interests Represented

Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members

Member Of

IBF is Full Member of Biobased Industries Consortium https://biconsortium.eu/membership/full-members/irish-bioeconomy-foundation

Organisation Members

http://bioeconomyfoundation.com/Members.html

Additional Information

In the declaration of the amount of EU grant received, the full amount is indicated for each project as opposed to its annual allocation, as annual value cannot be determined upfront nor till completion of associated reporting period (hence data of EU support is approximated by excess). The following link to official EC/CORDIS webpage provide the full detials of the total grant awarded to us in each project (each of this grant is spread over a number of years): https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/792221 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/887501 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101023381 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101023260 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101060618 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135144 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101135353 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101133398 https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101158173 (new EU projects are added periodically as they become available, similarly completed ones are removed periodically as they come to their conclusion, for the latest updated information please refer to the CORDIS database search function)