BIC announces that efforts for setting SIRA 2030 have begun
Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.
The Strategic Innovation and Research Agenda
(SIRA), first adopted in 2013 and updated in 2017, translates the ambitions of
the (Bio-based Industries Consortium) BIC into a set of actions designed to
deliver tangible and increasingly ambitious results by 2020 and by 2030. According
to a recent announcement, the process of preparing the SIRA 2030 has already
begun.
BIC announcement: “Taskforces for SIRA
2030”,
Vision containing BIC ambitions: “The
circular bio-society in 2050”.
Detailed list of the taskforces and the topics:
“Taskforces
for 2030 SIRA”, 5/2019.
Related post: “SIRA
2017 – Guidelines for the European biorefining sector of the future”, 26/6/2017.
Figure 1. Cover of the BIC document: “Taskforces
for 2020 SIRA”
In order to set the SIRA 2030, four taskforces
have been created and categorised into four areas linked with the four key
drivers identified in the industry's 2050 Vision.
Taskforce
1: Integrating feedstock into bio-based value chains
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Driver 1:
Fostering food security for a growing world population and demand for
sustainable products
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Taskforce
2: Integrating operations within bio-based value chains
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Driver 2:
Contributing to a sustainable planet
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Taskforce
3: Integrating markets & society into bio-based value chains
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Driver 3: Create jobs and growth in the
circular bioeconomy
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Taskforce
4: Integrating investments into an inclusive bioeconomy
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Driver 4:
Achieve a circular bioeconomy society
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The members of the taskforces include BIC
members and also representatives across the fifteen industry associations who
are signatories of the 2050 "Vision for a circular bio-society". The
SIRA 2030 will seek to put in place the actions needed to achieve this circular
bio-society with milestones for these actions in 2030.
The process will include two major surveys with
review cycles with the taskforces:
- 1st “run”: It will establish actions and
milestones for 2030 on the way to 2050. Each taskforce will then review its
collective results and will also receive the highlights of the other taskforces
to possibly ‘enrich’ its review reactions.
- 2nd “run”: Each taskforce will be asked to
help formulate key performance indicators (KPI) for the milestones. The SMART
principle will be applied: specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time
bound.
A BIC-led coordination and editing team will compose the drafts and the final version of the SIRA 2030 for approval by the BIC board by the of end 2019. The European Commission will be involved in the approval process since the objective is that SIRA 2030 be the basis for a new PPP on bio-based circular solutions.
