On 26 November 2025, the annual Status Meeting of the junior research groups funded under the programme “Bioeconomy as Societal Change” took place in Gießen. Since 2014, this funding initiative of the Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Spatial Development (BMFTR) has supported interdisciplinary research addressing the social, economic, technological, and ecological dimensions of the transition toward a sustainable bio-based economy. Hosted by the TRABBI research group at Justus Liebig University Giessen, this year’s meeting brought together the four funded junior research groups: BIOPOLISTA, MeatTheBioeconomy, ReValueD, and TRABBI. Each group presented updates on their ongoing work and discussed progress, challenges and emerging empirical insights. As part of the programme, the BIOPOLISTA team shared preliminary findings from their recent fieldwork, offering early reflections on how political dynamics, stakeholder perspectives and regional contexts shape governance and policy processes in the bioeconomy.
The Junior Research Groups of the funding program “Bioeconomy as Societal Change” met at the University for Sustainable Development Eberswalde (HNE) for the status meeting 2023.
The meeting gave the Junior Research Groups the opportunity to present the results of their research projects to peer groups and representatives of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Jülich Project Management Organisation (Projektträger Jülich).
In addition to the Junior Resarch Groups that started in 2018, four newly funded Junior Research Groups that started in 2023 presented their research projects: TRABBI, Meat the Bioeconomy, ReVaLueD and BIOPOLISTA.
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BIOPOLISTA
Agricultural and Food Policy Group
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Philippstr. 13, Haus 12 A
D-10117 Berlin (Mitte) | Germany
