Peer Group

The Peer Group has been created to complement the technical expertise of the project participants.

Tasks of the peer group:

In order to complement the technical expertise of the project participants, a ‘peer group’ of relevant public agencies and cluster organisations has been established, which will provide the five innovation regions with good practices in terms of strategy and roadmap development and the establishment of bio-based economic activities. The group will grow depending on the evolving needs of the project.

Members of the BE-Rural Peer Group:

BioFuel Region

BioFuel Region is owned by its members, who are working together to bring about change.

BioFuel Region initiates, coordinates and collaborates on projects that contribute to a low carbon vehicle fleet and a well-developed bioeconomy in northern Sweden. Their underlying strategy is based on mutual and lifelong learning.

BioFuel Region is a non-profit organisation that collaborates with the public sector, industry and research and development.

Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC)

IBioIC’s role, as a specialist in the Industrial Biotechnology (IB) sector, is to stimulate the growth of the IB sector in Scotland to £900 million by 2025. The strategic areas of focus are:

Industry/academia collaboration
De-risking scale-up
Developing competitive opportunities
Providing a skilled workforce

The Innovation Centre programme: Funded by the Scottish Funding Council with support from Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise, the Innovation Centre programme was first launched back in 2012. Since then, £120m (2013-18) has been invested in eight Innovation Centres across a range of key sectors. Everything from sensing to stratified medicine, digital health and care to data, aquaculture to oil and gas, and biotechnology to construction.