SYMOBIO 2PLUS

Specifically, the project aims to develop concrete, practical and specific suggestions for how bioeconomy monitoring should be structured and managed. It should: 

• Propose a comprehensive, robust, and manageable set of indicators that can be readily and regularly updated (e.g. 30 to 40 core priority indicators), and which reflect current stakeholder priorities;
• Identify specific research needs and continue to advance cutting-edge methods to develop fit-for-purpose indicators;
• Distinguish links to corresponding monitoring activities and learn from, incorporate and build on knowledge toward developing bioeconomy monitoring in different contexts;
• Explore options, needs and requirements for gathering, compiling, updating, presenting and hosting indicators and data in a way that can both (a) make bioeconomy a tangible and relevant topic for a broad audience and (b) provide the evidence basis for policy makers to help steer the bioeconomy transformation in a sustainable way.