Employment in vs. Education for the Bioeconomy

Drejerska, Nina

doi:10.15544/rd.2017.245

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“…So far, few studies addressed students' perception of bioeconomy (e.g. Drejerska 2017;Hempel et al 2018;Stern et al 2018a, b). Student-specific as well as crosscountry comparative studies are rare (Mastalka and Timonen 2017;Golowko et al 2019) and consider students' perception from very specific angles (e.g.…”

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Bioeconomy perception by future stakeholders: Hearing from European forestry students

Masiero

Secco

Pettenella

et al. 2020

Ambio

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This article provides useful information for universities offering forestry programs and facing the growing demand for bioeconomy education. An explorative survey on bioeconomy perception among 1400 students enrolled in 29 universities across nine European countries offering forestry programs was performed. The data have been elaborated via descriptive statistics and cluster analysis. Around 70% of respondents have heard about the bioeconomy, mainly through university courses. Students perceive forestry as the most important sector for bioeconomy; however, the extent of perceived importance of forestry varies between countries, most significantly across groups of countries along a North–South European axis. Although differences across bachelor and master programs are less pronounced, they shed light on how bioeconomy is addressed by university programs and the level of student satisfaction with this. These differences and particularities are relevant for potential development routes towards comprehensive bioeconomy curricula at European forestry universities with a forestry focus.

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Bioeconomy perception by future stakeholders: Hearing from European forestry students

Masiero

Secco

Pettenella

et al. 2020

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“…European Commission has defined the theoretical concept of Knowledge-Based-Bioeconomy (KBBE) as life science knowledge transformation process into eco-efficient, new and sustainable products [26]. The transformation process of the existing production system towards KBBE will increase demand for the high-skilled and highly qualified workers.…”

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

Pubule

Blumberga

Rozakis

et al. 2020

Environmental and Climate Technologies

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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.

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“…The calculation of effects includes indicators such as the number of enterprises, employed persons, and value added. Subsequently, the high employment values in the individual bioeconomy sectors are caused by natural and geographical conditions in each country (Drejerska 2017). According to a study performed by Hetemäki and Hurmekoski (2016), at the European level is still a lack of studies that develop an area such as the forest labour market.…”

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Analysis of forestry employment within the bioeconomy labour market in the Czech Republic

Perunová¹,

Zimmermannová²

2022

J. For. Sci.

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Climate change, biodiversity loss, and the increased occurrence of extreme weather events bring new challenges at a global level, not just in forestry. In response to the current situation, modified economic models such as circular economy, green economy, bio-based economy, or bioeconomy, are expected to move society towards a more sustainable future. The main aim of this paper was to evaluate forestry employment and its drivers within the bioeconomy labour market in the Czech Republic. The partial target was to provide a general view of the development of forestry employment within the bioeconomy labour market. The authors applied a mixed methods approach, using literature review, data analysis, correlation analysis, and regression analysis. A decreasing trend of the share of forestry employment in total bioeconomy employment and of the share of bioeconomy employment in the labour market in the Czech Republic was identified. Regarding the drivers of the forestry labour market, based on the results, employment in the forestry sector is positively dependent on wages/salaries and negatively dependent on GDP and forest land.

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Employment in vs. Education for the Bioeconomy

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

Bioeconomy perception by future stakeholders: Hearing from European forestry students

Bioeconomy perception by future stakeholders: Hearing from European forestry students

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

Analysis of forestry employment within the bioeconomy labour market in the Czech Republic

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