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Launch of the BioRESP Forum: for a bioeconomic transition

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Après le Festival Vivant organisé en septembre 2016, le volet français du programme européen Synenergene continue de proposer des événements destinés à aborder et faire connaître les différentes facettes de la biologie de synthèse et de la bioéconomie.
Ainsi, le jeudi 1er juin 2017 verra l’organisation de la toute première édition du Forum BioRESP à l’École nationale du génie rural, des eaux et des forêts (ENGREF) d’AgroParisTech (Paris 15e). Objectif : devenir une interface de dialogue multi acteurs et de rencontres pensées pour remettre le vivant au cœur de l’économie et forger une bioéconomie viable et souhaitable, à travers la tenue de nombreux ateliers, conférences et tables rondes.
UP' Magazine is a partner of the event
 
Ahe BioRESP Forum is inspired by the NanoRESP Forum which, since 2013, has been helping stakeholders involved in nanotechnologies to move towards responsible practices.
This new Forum proposes to address the various determinants and effects of the emerging bio-economic revolution; in particular, it is known that the gradual phasing out of fossil resources will increase pressure on biomass resources and force a consensus to be reached in the face of competition for their use in order to arbitrate between priorities: food, energy, chemicals, materials, etc.

Putting life back at the heart of the economy - that is the challenge of the bio-economy.

The aim is to produce more and more from living processes: biogas rather than fossil fuels, renewable materials rather than minerals.
It also means thinking about production in an "organic" way and therefore going beyond the classic pattern: exploitation of resources, transformation, consumption, waste disposal.
This "bio-economic transition" can be an opportunity for stakeholders and citizens to reappropriate the development of their territory.
In order to be fruitful, this perspective requires an ongoing dialogue between stakeholders to collectively consider the dilemmas (externalities, competitiveness, competition of uses, biodiversity, access to biomass, incentives, etc.) and resolve them. In this context, the BioRESP Forum, as a catalyst for dialogue between stakeholders, proposes to activate interactions and links, and to help ensure the coherence of the dynamics.
This first session of ForumBioRESP aims to bring together, in the diversity of their interests and expectations, the actors concerned (agricultural world, industry, academia, associations, public authorities, students and start-up companies...) in order to collect the stakes of each one and the dilemmas that will be put on the program of the next sessions.

The BioRESP Forum is a tool for collectively anticipating the reconfigurations of society and value chains that the bio-economy will bring about. It proposes to collectively examine the environmental, social and governance (ESG) opportunities and risks of the uses of living organisms and their associated controversies.
The Forum provides a framework for dialogue between stakeholders (farmers, producers, processors, distributors, consumers, public authorities, investors...) to share knowledge, concrete initiatives, uncertainties and expectations on relevant controversial topics. This process aims to help stakeholders move forward freely "with a better understanding of the causes".
 
This project is rooted in a dynamic initiated by the three editions of the Assises du Vivant held at UNESCO (2012-2015) and, more recently, by the FESTIVAL VIVANT (Sept 2016), the French part of the European programme. Synenergene which mobilized 15 partners.
The BioRESP process is driven by a Steering Committee made up of seven Colleges bringing together public authorities, researchers, industrialists, representatives of associations and citizens, territorial representatives, as well as students and startupers.
Funded by an Alliance of public and private operators (annual contributors) including ADEME, SUPBIOTECH, the Paris-Reims Foundation and the Maison des sciences de l'homme Paris-Saclay, it is supported by AgroParisTech, Entreprises pour l'environnement (EpE) and the OREE association.

How does it work?

Multi-stakeholder dialogue for responsible innovation practices.
The BioRESP Forum is in line with the spirit of the RRI ("responsible research & innovation") programmes developed in Europe. These programmes question the logic of innovation from the very beginning of their conception from the point of view of the products and services envisaged, by integrating their impacts (life cycle, degradation, uses, utility, etc.).
Multi-stakeholder dialogue is one of the tools of choice to facilitate mutual questioning and the expression of the diversity of conceptions and interests. It allows controversies to emerge and progress in the adjustment of innovation logics and the robustness of subsequent industrial projects.
Thus, the ambition of the BioRESP dialogue forum is to maintain a learning process in which everyone contributes to supporting a "common vigilance".
This implies relying on pluralistic expertise, diverse sociotechnical approaches, and respectful and attentive practices capable of cultivating trust.
The BioRESP Forum therefore proposes to all the actors concerned a watch on the initiatives and the various forms that the bioeconomy can take. They will be able to inspire more adapted strategies for each one, through a better awareness of the living and industrial ecosystem.
 
A model encouraged by public authorities
This type of dialogue for responsible innovation has been clearly encouraged by :
- The French Strategy for the Bioeconomy - published in January 2017 - which underlines the need for a permanent dialogue between stakeholders in this field.
- The European Commission: The requirements for responsible research and innovation are becoming more and more explicit at the European level, particularly within the Horizon 2020 programme.
- The manifesto signed in Utrecht in 2016 by the actors involved in the bio-economy
- International commitments (17 millennium goals of Agenda 2030).
 
Terms and Conditions
The BioRESP Forum organises four meetings a year. The projects and reports of the proceedings are available on the website : www.bioresp.eu
 
Every two years, a LIVING FESTIVAL will be held (on the model of the 2016 LIVING FESTIVAL) in order to promote the initiatives of the actors involved in the bio-economic transition.
 
The Anthropocene Society is mandated to coordinate and organize the BioRESP sessions. The two project managers are Dorothée Browaeys and Pierre-Alain Schieb.

June 1st Program

2:00 p.m. Welcome
Introductory remarks by Gilles Trystram, Director of AgroParisTech
Presentation of the session by Dorothée Browaeys, co-founder of the BioRESP Forum
 
14h15 How to forge a coherent dynamic for the bio-economic transition?
Foresight: at the risk of inaction by Pierre-Alain Schieb, co-author of Compétitivité et soutenabilité de la bioéconomie à l'horizon 2050 (L'Harmattan)
 
14h35 Reactions of the actors, from the various communities concerned :
Industrial world: Laetitia Gerbe, Partnerships Manager, Tereos
Agricultural world: Maximin Charpentier, President of the Marne Chamber of Agriculture, President of the Agroressource et Bioeconomie demain cluster and of Ferme 112
NGOs and civil society: Jean-David Abel, co-author of the report Towards a sustainable bioeconomy at the EESC, Vice-President of France nature environnement (FNE)
Public authorities: Bertrand Rigal, Director of Economic Development and Higher Education, Greater Reims Urban Community, member of the European Commission's Bioeconomy Panel
Territories: Dominique Plumail, founder of CEDEN, Cabinet de valorisation des biomasses, coordinator of the European BioREG project.
Innovation division: Yvon Le Hénaff, Director General of ARD (Agroressources recherches et développements)
Academic world: Jean-Marc Callois, Director of the Territories Department at IRSTEA
 
15:45 How can the bioeconomy recompose interdependencies? by Françoise Roure, President of the Security and Risks Section of the General Council for the Economy - Ministry of Economy and Finance
Presentation of the workshops by Dorothée Browaeys: themes, objectives and ways of doing things.
 
4:00 p.m. Break
 
16:30 Workshops Sharing experiences to identify issues, concerns, tensions to be addressed collectively.
Workshops in the form of a World Café: each person attends two workshops in succession
 
Workshop 1Performance, externalities, environmental accounting
with Alexandre Rambaud, head of the chair of environmental accounting at AgroParisTech
Moderator: Pierre-Alain Schieb, co-founder of the BioRESP Forum
 
Workshop 2 - Competitiveness of biosourced approaches and competition of uses with Jean-Marie Chauvet, Director of the Jacques de Bohan Foundation
Moderator: Claire Tutenuit, General Delegate of Entreprises pour l'environnement (EpE)
 
Workshop 3 - Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services with Cécile Claveirole, EESC rapporteur (soil management, agro-ecology), FNE
Animation Hélène Leriche, head of biodiversity and economy at the OREE association
 
Workshop 4 - Access to Biomasses, Organizations (Industrial Ecology) and Interdependencies with André Torre, ProXimités AgroParisTech/INRA team, MSH Paris-Saclay
Moderator: Cecile Nivet, head of research valorisation at GIP Ecofor
 
Workshop 5 - Incentives, indicators, taxation and virtuous regulations with Catherine Moreddu, Senior Economist, Trade and Agriculture Directorate, OECD
Animation: Virginie Le Ravalec, Service Forêt alimentation bioéconomie de l'ADEME (French Environment and Energy Management Agency)
 
17:45 Return with Muriel Hamon of Succeed Together
 
18:15 Next steps BioRESP
 
Conclusion : Julien Dugué, bioeconomy office, Ministry of Agriculture, Sea and Forest
 
Cocktail
 
Registration (free but compulsory)

 
BioRESP Forum: 1 June 2017, from 14:00 to 19:00 - AgroParisTech, 19 av du Maine, Paris 15e

 

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