ACTIVITIES
A perspective from Professor Dr. Regina Birner of the University of Hohenheim on the bioeconomy in the department of Cesar (Colombia)
🌱💡 Connections that Transform: Territorial Innovation for the Bioeconomy in Cesar
🗓 Thursday, August 21, 2025
🕗 8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
📍 Uraku Hall – Rafael Carrillo Luquez Departmental Library (Calle 15 # 12A, Corner)
A space to discuss innovation, the sustainable use of biodiversity, and partnerships that drive the sustainable transformation of Cesar, with the participation of Professor Regina Birner, bioeconomy expert from the University of Hohenheim (Germany).
✅ Free admission with prior registration (limited capacity).
Organized by: Center for the Economics and Finance of Biodiversity – Humboldt Institute | Project Pacts for Socio-ecological Restoration and a Sustainable Bioeconomy.
Dissemination of NEXUS workshop results
From October 9-10, 2024, the first Bioeconomy Economics workshop “Economics and Governance of the Global Bioeconomy” was held at the University of Passau, Germany, led by the Bioeconomy Economics research group, in which Lina Mayorga Duarte, from the University of Hohenheim, presented a summary of the NEXUS workshop held in September of the same year and the preliminary results.
NEXUS WORKSHOP - Nature x Value Webs x Territories. Biodiversity-based value webs and territorial bioeconomy systems in Colombia: perspectives from practice and research
The NEXUS workshop was held from September 16-18, 2024 as a participatory space to connect and create valuable networks between territorial productive initiatives based on the use of biodiversity, the scientific community and institutional actors of the bioeconomy. The workshop was held in person in Bogota, Colombia and in Stuttgart, Germany with parallel online sessions between the two groups.
This space had three objectives:
- Facilitate the exchange of experiences and the identification of challenges and opportunities.
- Identify challenges of territorial initiatives to define lines of research, recognize capabilities and interests as a basis for establishing a research agenda.
- Jointly build the vision, objectives and structure and identify strategies for the implementation of the NEXUS network.
During three days of face-to-face sessions at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Biological Resources and the University of Hohenheim, and through hybrid sessions, workshop participants interacted, presented productive initiatives in their territories and shared experiences and knowledge. The challenges identified were the basis for the definition of preliminary lines of research. Additionally, the successful experiences of Colombian companies that have promoted the productive linkages around the use of plants from biodiversity for the food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical sectors were presented.
Poster presentation "Towards territorial forest bioeconomies through native palm value webs in Colombia"
At the 26th IUFRO World Congress “Forests and Society towards 2050” in Stockholm we presented the poster “Towards territorial forest bioeconomies through value webs of native palms in Colombia”, prepared by researchers from the University of Hohenheim and the Center for Economics and Finance of Biodiversity of the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Biological Resources. The poster was presented by Tatiana Rojas and Ricardo Vargas Carpintero, and was awarded as the best poster of the Task Force “Unlocking the bioeconomy and non-timber forest products“. In this work, we visualized socio-biodiverse territorial bioeconomies based on native palms in Colombia and highlighted the need for collaborative R+D+I processes. During the presentation, we announced the NEXUS workshop as the beginning of the network to enhance these collaborative processes.
