Bio4HUMAN Impacts

Bio4HUMAN’s long term expected impacts are split in the following categories:

Societal Impacts

  1. Improved health and hygiene in humanitarian aid regions by reducing accumulated solid waste that poses health risks.
  2. Enhanced livelihood opportunities in waste management and recycling sectors.
  3. Increased citizen involvement and co-development of future solutions that meet their needs, fostering trust and support in the transition towards reduction of waste in communities that receive humanitarian aid.
  4. Increased awareness and confidence in the bioeconomy of Eurocitizens and humanitarian beneficiaries, strengthening social, economic and climate resilience of the continent.
  5. Support designing policies for the implementation of additional bio-based and circular economy policies and initiatives across Europe.

Economic Impacts

  1. Creation of new bioeconomy jobs in public and private sectors, attracting new talents and entrepreneurs in the field, boosting Europe’s overall competitiveness in the bioeconomy and positioning it as a global leader.
  2. Market adoption of the project’s R&I recommendations of innovative solutions will ensure Europe’s competitiveness in the bioeconomy.
  3. Beneficiary countries will gain the tools and technologies to transition to a green economy.

Scienctific Impacts

  1. Expanding the knowledge and understanding of frameworks that support the transition towards a sustainable, regenerative and just circular bioeconomy, paving the way for further scientific research and advancement.
  2. Transferable guidelines and recommendations addressing further R&D&I needs of the bio-based sector actors and humanitarian aid actors will benefit scientific research in the fields of bioeconomy and humanitarian aid and development.
  3. Promoting interdisciplinary research in Europe and beyond, across environmental, material sciences and development aid studies fields to better shape the strategies of the EU policymakers, national and local governments in Europe, and humanitarian aid recipient countries.
  4. Encouraging the scientific community to focus more deeply on creating theoretical models that optimize conditions for the development of innovative bio-based solutions for humanitarian applications.

Environmental Impacts

  1. The project’s outcomes will support climate-neutrality, zero pollution, and fair and just transitions to a circular bioeconomy in Europe’s humanitarian aid recipient countries.
  2. The project’s results will directly contribute to key EU initiatives, including European Green Deal, the EU Circular Economy Action Plan, the EU strategy on adaptation to climate change and the EU Zero Pollution Action Plan.