BIOEAST INITIATIVE AND BIOEASTSUP PROJECT: RESULTS OF CEE COUNTRIES COOPERATION FOR BIOECONOMY.

As the bioeconomy concept is one of the main trends in economy, the new national policies and strategies promoted by countries must adhere to the lines established at the EU level. For European countries, both EU and non-EU, the bioeconomy will have a major role in their national economy. The aim of this paper is to set forth the bioeconomy concept in EU and the main actions for Central and Eastern European countries in this field, thus far. These are BIOEAST Initiative and BIOEASTsUp H2020 Project. For this analysis, we use official documents created at the EU level by the EU institutions, along with the results from the BIOEAST Initiative and BIOEASTsUP project. The research, which is based on document analysis, comparisons and forecast, offers a broad view on the bioeconomy strategy at the EU level and especially on the level of the development for the CEE countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]