Copyright: European Regional Science Association
63rd ERSA Congress
Location: Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal
26-30 August 2024
Dr. Sebastian Losacker attended the 63rd Congress of the European Regional Science Association (ERSA) in the Azores, Portugal, from August 26 to 30. In the session 'The Spatial, Regional and Urban Dimensions of Circular Economy' he presented recent research under the title 'Using Sequence Analysis to Uncover the Spatio-Temporal Emergence of Bioeconomy Innovations'.
Dr. Herbert Stolzenberg Award for Sebastian Losacker
Location: Gießen, Germany
19. June 2024
Dr. Sebastian Losacker was awarded the Dr. Herbert Stolzenberg Award for Research in Social Sciences, Economics and Law at the summer party of the Giessen Graduate Center for Social Sciences, Economics and Law (GGS) at Justus Liebig University Giessen. Among other recognitions, he received the award for his research with the TRABBI junior research group.
Internation Sustainability Transitions Conference
Location: Oslo, Norway
16-19 June 2024
Lennart Fischer attended the 15th International Sustainability Transitions Conference in Oslo, Norway, from June 16-19, where he presented recent research on the collectivization of visions of a future bio-based construction sector in the session "The geography of sustainability transitions".
In addition to the conference, he participated in the ERC paper development workshop on June 20, organized by the Network for Early Career Researchers in Sustainability Transitions (NEST) in cooperation with the IST conference, and discussed his current research paper in a session chaired by Anna Bergek.
New Research Associate
Location: Gießen
01. June 2024
We are delighted to announce that Charlotte Lobensteiner will join our team as a research associate from June 1, 2024. As part of the research project, she will be working on her PhD thesis, which will focus on the sustainability transition towards a bioeconomy in Germany. Charlotte Lobensteiner studied Geography at the Leibniz Universität Hannover (B.A.) and Human Geography at the University of Münster (M.Sc.).
European Bamboo Expo
Location: Dortmund
17- 18 May 2024
From May 17 to 18, Tim Becker attended the European Bamboo Expo 2024 to gain in-depth insights into the bamboo industry and conduct short interviews with experts on the global market for bamboo building materials. The theme of the Expo was the central role of bamboo in the circular economy with a focus on the construction sector. In addition to companies and international organizations, industry experts from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Europe attended the trade fair in Dortmund, Germany.
Presentation: Socio-technical imaginaries of a bio-based construction sector
Location: Online
29. April 2024
Lennart Fischer and Dr. Sebastian Losacker presented two recent research papers on socio-technical imaginaries of a bio-based construction sector at the CIRUS Coffee Break on April 29. The presentation focused on the process of legitimation of imaginaries as well as on recent research results that address the question to what extent imaginaries of a bio-based construction sector compete or complement each other.
CIRUS is the research cluster on sustainability transitions at EAWAG (Water Research Institute of the ETH Domain) and investigates the geography of sustainability transitions.
Presentation at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
Location: Online
26. April 2024
Dr. Sebastian Losacker was invited by TRABBI guest researcher Prof. Dr. Yongmin Shang to give a talk at the Academic Salon of the Institute of Ecology and Sustainable Development of the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (China). Under the title "Measuring and mapping innovation in the bioeconomy", Dr. Sebastian Losacker presented recent research on global innovation activities in the bioeconomy and the mapping of regional development paths using sequence analysis.
Location: Online
15. April 2024
Dr. Lukas Kriesch has published a tutorial entitled "Interactive choropleth maps with GeoPandas and Folium" that demonstrates the possibilities of processing and visualizing geospatial data using Python. The tutorial uses the regional bioeconomy dataset as an example to demonstrate the synergy between geospatial analysis and visualization tools in Python. By integrating GeoPandas and Folium, it is possible to create rich, interactive maps that can greatly enhance the presentation and understanding of complex geospatial datasets.
Location: Online
12. April 2024
Bioökonomie.de has published an article on the regionalized dataset on bioeconomy companies in Germany generated by Dr. Lukas Kriesch and Dr. Sebastian Losacker as part of the project. The article reports on the web mining approach using AI technology, the regional implications of the results and the applicability for further bioeconomy research at the regional level.
Copyright: Regional Studies Association
Location: Webinar
11. April 2024
Dr. Sebastian Losacker organized a webinar of the Regional Studies Association entitled "Sustainability Transitions towards a Bioeconomy". The invited speakers were Terese Venus (University of Passau, Germany), head of another BMBF-funded bioeconomy junior research group, with the presentation "The Circular Bioeconomy Transition and Global Biomass Value Chains" and Nicolas Befort (Neoma Business School, France) with the presentation "The Contribution of Epistemic Communities to the Sustainability Transition: The Case of the Wine Industry". The webinar was part of the webinar series "RSA City and Regional Sustainability Transitions", which is co-organized by Dr. Sebastian Losacker.
