PUBLIC Consultation: Rural development
The European Commission is consulting stakeholders to shape the future of rural development all over Europe. It wants to create a vision of future developments and identify key elements to …
Catch up with our GO for Grass! online event
On 22 October 2020, the GO-GRASS project held its first online event in the framework of the EU Green Week, to shed light on the overlooked potential of grasslands for …
GO for Grass! Discover the overlooked potential of grassland in our upcoming ONLINE EVENT
Grasslands cover 21% of the total surface of the EU-28 and as such are a key element of the regions landscape and biodiversity. Today, grass as a resource remains underutilised. …
Hej Danmark!
We were lucky with the timing of our 2nd General Assembly (having already postponed it from summer to fall), so that at least a large part of our 22 partner …
Sustainable grassland management efforts in the Baltics: interview with Žymantas Morkvėnas
Žymantas Morkvėnas is the acting director and biodiversity expert at the NGO Baltic Environmental Forum. His life’s work focuses on the agricultural practice impact on biodiversity and development of socio-economic …
Rural Inspiration Awards 2020
The annual Rural Inspiration Awards 2020 competition hosted by the European Network for Rural Development received a whopping 71 entries this year! Climate change mitigation projects received the most entries …
A Green Deal for agriculture: what future for green biorefineries?
With the first outline of the ‘Farm to Fork’ strategy presented in March, the upcoming reform of the Common Agricultural Policy, and the launch of the new Green Deal for …
From biomass to bio-based products webinar series
Catch up with the webinar series organised by the EU-funded BIO4PRODUCTS project to follow the path from biomass to bio-based products! Since September 2016, the BIO4PRODUCTS project is developing a …
ATB & GO-GRASS join the bio-based economy conference
On 4 and 5 June, the Leibniz Institute for Agricultural engineering and Bioeconomy (ATB), coordinator of the GO-GRASS project, will join the 4th edition of the Biobased Economy conference (online). …
Discovering the diverse potential of our forgotten grassland
Around 28% of the total area of the European Union countries is covered by grassland and green shrubs. Today these resources remain underutilized, being left to decay after mowing and …