The BE-Rural consortium participated in a hybrid conference (taking place both onsite and online) organised as part of the EU Green Week by the Bulgarian and Romanian Cluster Associations, together with the European Clusters Alliance. The programme was exclusively dedicated to demonstrating the importance of regional clusters in driving the bioeconomy as an essential vector for green, sustainable, and inclusive growth. On the first conference day, BE-Rural partners gave an opening remark as well as a presentation about the actions that may be pioneered by clusters in European agri-food ecosystem recovery plans. In addition, facilitators of the OIP regions attending the conference participated in a consultation aimed at evaluating the opportunities and challenges for developing a bioeconomy strategy at local and regional level.