Education for Advancing the Implementation of the Bioeconomy Goals: An Analysis of Master Study Programmes in Bioeconomy

Abstract

Bioeconomy in Europe has become one of the leading courses for sustainable and resource-efficient development. Main aspects of bioeconomy: development of new technologies and processes, development of markets and competitiveness for bioeconomy can be implemented through higher education and transformative knowledge for building a sustainable bioeconomy. Over the past year, new bioeconomy-related Master study programmes have been created and have integrated bioeconomy goals into their research, programme aims and learning outcomes. During the research the set of competences based on sustainable development competences and bioeconomy competences have been created. The integration of competences for bioeconomy development in higher education can be seen as an important step in transformation towards knowledge-based bioeconomy. On this basis, 10 Master study programmes across Europe were analysed in order to find out the actual integration of competences in different study programmes for bioeconomy. Results of the analysis show that transdisciplinary competence, learning competence, interdisciplinary competence and system-thinking competence are strongly integrated into the study programmes. The analysis also shows that the integration of other competences, like anticipatory competence, normative competence, strategic competence and interpersonal competence can be improved in the future.

L’influence des territorialités dans l’accompagnement pédagogique à l’orientation scolaire

“…Nous reviendrons ici sur quatre réalisations significatives du projet 4MED, lauréat du PIA3. Certains travaux remarquent une nette augmentation, au cours de ces dernières années, de l'offre de formation en lien avec la bioéconomie (Pubule et al, 2020 ;Paris et al, 2023). Ces formations tiennent compte, à travers leurs programmes respectifs, de l'évolution du marché de l'emploi, à travers des nouveaux métiers et compétences stratégiques.…”

“…ont analysé la perception des étudiants de la bioéconomie et leurs attentes en matière de formation. Pour leur part,Pubule et al (2020) ont étudié les programmes des masters en lien avec la bioéconomie. Ces programmes sont tournés autour de thématiques « assez larges » (innovation, durabilité…), et de compétences transversales, sans tenir compte de la dimension territoriale.…”

Public engagement and education can support the transition towards sustainable bioeconomy

“…One major educational need is to pursue transdisciplinary education, associating social subjects (such as ethics, law and economics) with STEM disciplines (i.e., Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) (Raupelienė2017, Masiero, et al 2020, GBS2020 2021. The newly required skills will depend on the different sectors, but also include cross-sector skills and soft skills such as communication, education, policy, decision-making (LIFT 2020b, Pubule, et al 2020, Urmetzer, et al 2020, GBS2020 2021.…”

Education for Advancing the Implementation of the Green Deal Goals for Bioeconomy

“…The establishment of this direction justifies the even greater need and importance for bioeconomy specialists and their role in the future and in achieving the goals of the bioeconomy. Therefore, in the context of changes in education, the competencies (knowledge) acquired by students play an essential role [3].…”