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Virtual seminar with Daniela Gomel on 4 December “Mere deployment of renewables or industry formation, too? Exploring the role of advocacy communities for the Argentinean energy policy mix”.

Daniela Gomel is a political scientist (University of Buenos Aires) with an MSc in Energy Policy (SPRU, University of Sussex). She also attended postgraduate courses on electric mobility and the precautionary principle for sustainability transitions. She will present her research on the policy processes that result in policy mixes for sustainability energy transitions and how they impact on the socio-technical changes (for more information, please see: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2020.02.003)

Daniela is now a policy specialist at Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina and teaches energy and public policy in different universities. Previously she worked in the public sector and for other NGOs focusing on energy and agriculture policy and participatory processes.

Please e-mail Karen.Siegel@uni-muenster.de if you would like to participate in the seminar.

The IAMO Forum is an annual conference organized by the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies. The 2021 edition of the conference will focus on how the transition to a bioeconomy may shape agrifood systems and affect global food and nutrition security. The conference will take place on 7-9 June 2021 and the deadline to submit abstracts is 24 January 2021.

Find out more here.

The International Consortium on Applied Bioeconomy Research (ICABR) has opened the call for abstracts for its 25th annual conference. The conference will take place from June 29 – July 2, 2021, in Ravelo, Italy. Its focus will be on the challenges and opportunities caused by COVID-19 for building a more sustainable and resilient bioeconomy.

Proposal for organized sessions, papers and posters should be submitted via the conference web-site. The deadline for submission has been extended to January 15^th, 2021. Submissions will be reviewed and information about acceptance circulated by January 30, 2021.

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The Global Bioeconomy Summit 2020 will open on Monday, November 16th. This year’s virtual meeting will start off with a series of three-day long workshops and follow-up with plenary sessions on the 19th and 20th of November, which will focus on innovations to achieve a sustainable bioeconomy.

The Center for Development Research (ZEF) is co-organizing two workshops. The first workshop will be held on November 18 and will focus on international policy instruments and governance of the bioeconomy and circular economy. The second will be a two-parts workshop, taking place on November 16 and 18, and it will address regional cooperation for innovative bioeconomy pathways to promote health and well-being.

Find out more information about the GBS 20202 here.