BIO-Save initiative teams up experienced researchers and higher education professionals:

• With advanced expertise in biotechnology, cell biology, molecular biology, environmental protection, climate studies, educational management,
• Working in four universities, four SMEs and two NGOs, and
• Coming from four EU member countries – Bulgaria, Italy, Greece and Slovenia, and one associated country – Turkey,
• And facing challenges in the form of demographic pressure and needs to address the high level of youth unemployment which is a source of social instability, and to respond to the high demand for professional workers with advance expertise.

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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

George Bernard Shaw

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BIO-Save strives:

• To bridge the gap between teaching in the academic institutions and the need for educated professionals in the biotech business.
• To promote the best practices in modern biotechnology research.
• To boost innovation in the biotech education and business through establishing an innovative programme in “Modern biotechnology approaches for climate change mitigation”.
• To implement advanced knowledge and skills to stimulate the shift of the EU education towards smart and green competences.
• To improve the quality of education for students, teachers and practitioners with up-to-date knowledge in climate protective biotechnology approaches through ICT-based flexible, transferable Learning Outcomes and Learning Pathways with the ultimate aim to build a competence-based learning system.
• To contribute to the (re)training of the workforce to answer the Industry 4.0 requirements for digital transformation of the economy, the business, and ultimately – our life.

BIO-Save initiative stands on three pillars:

• Linking higher education, research and business for excellence and regional development.
• Stimulating the development of entrepreneurial and creative skills to promote innovation in higher education through interactive learning environment.
• Improving skills for development of the biotech sector.

BIO-Save team steps on the excellent results of the ECO-Center and Bio-FIT projects – whose participants are our partners – by:

• Emphasizing the latest developments in research on clean environment and bio-fertilizer technologies.
• Transferring the outputs to new geographical regions – Turkey, Italy and Slovenia.
• Furthering the need for introducing green-biotechnology principles into the agricultural sector.
• Upgrading the free-access multilingual educational programmes through application of EQF/HE strategic system for organization of a training process.