{"id":59019,"date":"2018-12-11T07:23:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T06:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=59019"},"modified":"2018-12-06T15:28:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T14:28:03","slug":"raising-the-youths-awareness-on-the-bioeconomy-the-think-biobased-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/raising-the-youths-awareness-on-the-bioeconomy-the-think-biobased-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Raising the youth\u2019s awareness on the bioeconomy: the Think Biobased Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>We cannot transition successfully to a bioeconomy-oriented world relying on the educational materials we have at this moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To engage with young people and raise their interest in the bioeconomy, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbi-europe.eu\/projects\/biocanndo\" target=\"_blank\">BioCannDo project<\/a> has launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coebbe.nl\/wat-is-biobased\/biobased-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cThink Biobased Challenge\u201d<\/a>. This initiative will encourage the development of learning tools that draw students\u2019 attention to learn more about the biobased economy.<\/p>\n<p>The competition is open to all college and university students willing to take the challenge and design educational materials catered to primary and secondary school students. These teaching materials have to be readily used and must be produced in English (and in the participant\u2019s local language if he\/she is a non-native English speaker).<\/p>\n<h3>The competition is open until 1 February 2019.<\/h3>\n<p>A panel of bio-economy experts will reward the most creative and innovative teaching modules with a money prize of 3,000 for each educational grade level (i.e.: the top three entries will get a money price within respectively primary, secondary and vocational training grade).<\/p>\n<p>No limitations, no constraints: it\u2019s all about being creative and getting youngsters to \u201cthink bio-based\u201d!<\/p>\n<p>For more information and submit materials, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coebbe.nl\/wat-is-biobased\/biobased-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.coebbe.nl\/wat-is-biobased\/biobased-challenge\/<\/a>\u00a0 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allthings.bio\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/flyer_02_FEB.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">click here to download the flyer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We cannot transition successfully to a bioeconomy-oriented world relying on the educational materials we have at this moment. To engage with young people and raise their interest in the bioeconomy, the BioCannDo project has launched the \u201cThink Biobased Challenge\u201d. This initiative will encourage the development of learning tools that draw students\u2019 attention to learn more [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-59019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59019"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=59019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}