The Bioboost project was featured as a key case study during the side session “Bioeconomy in Action: Success Stories, Challenges and the Road Ahead”, held as part of EU Green Week 2025, one of the European Commission’s leading environmental policy events.
This session, organised in collaboration with the Circular Cities and Regions Initiative (CCRI), brought together prominent projects and institutions to explore how the circular transition can be accelerated through bioeconomy solutions. Bioboost was presented as an example of a territorial acceleration programme that combines innovation, finance and public policy to support high-impact regional initiatives.
Territorial bioeconomy and investment challenges
The presentation highlighted Bioboost’s systemic approach, particularly in:
- Supporting projects with mixed governance and complex business models,
- Identifying financial tools to unlock investment (such as public guarantees or output-based finance),
- And positioning accelerators as effective bridges between local initiatives and the European investment ecosystem.
Common investment barriers encountered by Bioboosters were also shared, including actor fragmentation, limited financial maturity, and a lack of specialised intermediaries. In response, Bioboost has tested solutions based on public-private collaboration and flexible structures such as SPVs and blended finance.
Advancing the bioeconomy as a tool for green transition
Bioboost’s experience reinforces the idea that place-based bioeconomy initiatives can become key enablers of the green transition, provided they receive the appropriate support to grow and consolidate.
The session stressed the importance of aligning environmental and investment policies, while showcasing initiatives like Bioboost that are developing replicable and scalable models from the ground up.
You can download the full event report here, including contributions from all participants and key session takeaways: