The global population is growing, our standard of living is increasing and we are faced with environmental challenges such as anthropogenic climate change, ocean litter, a declining availability of arable land and dwindling fossil resources. This requires us to transform today’s oil based economy towards the sustainable use of renewable resources, that is to say, towards the bioeconomy!
The necessity of this change is already widely accepted. The right time has come to talk about how we want to shape this change, which is why Science Year 2020/21 will focus on the bioeconomy.