We are pleased to invite you to the children's book launch event entitled "What's Bioeconomy?" within the Biovoices Project.
The event will take place online on March 30 at 10.00 CET.
The book aims to explain bio-based products used daily, while promoting sustainable lifestyles and consumption. In addition to children, the volume is also addressed to parents and their teachers.
The event will end with an interactive session in which participants interested in receiving copies and ensuring the dissemination of the book will be able to interact with the creators, thus defining the possible collaborations that will be made in the coming months.

Why a book for kids?

Despite all the efforts of Europe and its initiatives supporting bioeconomy, the large public is often unaware of the bioeconomy-related terminologies, the bio-based applications in every-day’s life and the technologies behind the innovations produced by the bio-based research and industry. It is essential to reach young people at the beginning of their life as consumers, in order to grow then as responsible consumers. This book has been conceived with the aim to increase awareness of the environmental, social and economic benefits of sustainable and circular bioeconomy and its sectors, in particular Bio-based sector among young people at pre-school and elementary.

What’s this book talk about?

What’s Bioeconomy? promote bioeconomy and bio-based solutions, in an easy and comprehensive way, raising awareness on sustainable production, consumption and lifestyles through education, by engaging children from 5 to 8 years old and their parents, grandparents, teachers and other adults that will read the book together with them.

11 languages!

The pilot version of the book will be printed in over 10.000 copies in 11 languages (English, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Greek, Dutch, German, Romanian, Slovak, Estonian, Hungarian) and will be distributed in selected schools, bookshops, museums for children and institutional contexts. 30 experts - gathered in a Scientific Committee - from industries, universities, research centers and associations from all over Europe, provided the technical-scientific contents for the creation of the book, then reworked by Biovoices in a simple, clear and understandable language for children and adults.

Do you want a copy?

The event will end with an interactive session in which participants interested in receiving copies and ensuring the dissemination of the book will be able to interact with the creators, thus defining possible collaborations to be carried out in the coming months.

Biovoices (01.01.2018 - 30.04.2021) is a 40-month project aimed at involving all relevant stakeholders (policy makers, researchers, the business community and civil society) to address societal, environmental and economic challenges related to organic products and applications.
To participate, we invite you to access the Youtube page of the project, which will broadcast the event live: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCglonja8vTlTpyir7XxX7FA/videos

More about BIOVOICES Project here: https://www.biovoices.eu/