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.

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
Driver 1: Fostering food security for a growing world population and demand for sustainable products
Taskforce 2: Integrating operations within bio-based value chains
Driver 2: Contributing to a sustainable planet
Taskforce 3: Integrating markets & society into bio-based value chains
Driver 3: Create jobs and growth in the circular bioeconomy
Taskforce 4: Integrating investments into an inclusive bioeconomy
Driver 4: Achieve a circular bioeconomy society

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.

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