Workshop on Policy Implementation for Sustainability Transitions Last week, BIOPOLISTA hosted the workshop “Policy Implementation for Sustainability Transitions” at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, bringing together researchers from across Europe and beyond for two days of intensive exchange on the challenges of

We are pleased to share the publication of our most recent article, “Resilience Challenges in Bioeconomy Policies: A Global Comparative Analysis,” by Nicolai Goritz, Maria Proestou, and Peter H. Feindt, recently published in Environmental Management. The study conducts a systematic

We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest article, “Assessing the neoliberal state in the bioeconomy: evidence from Germany,” authored by Maria Proestou, Nicolai Goritz, and Peter H. Feindt. in the Sustainability: Science, Practice and Policy journal. The

We warmly invite policy scholars and experts to submit contributions to the workshop “Policy Implementation for Sustainability Transitions”, taking place 17–18 September 2026 at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Nordcampus) and hosted by the BIOPOLISTA Research Group. The workshop explores how sustainability-related

Visit of High-Level Delegation from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia to BIOPOLISTA We were delighted to welcome a distinguished delegation from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) to our BMBF-funded junior research group BIOPOLISTA at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.The delegation included Prof. Dr. Rosli Md.

New Article by Nicolai Goritz, Maria Proestou, Peter H. Feindt on Resilience in Global Bioeconomy Strategies We are happy to announce our new article, “Pathways to Strong and Weak Resilience Orientation in Bioeconomy Policies: A Global Configurational Analysis of Policy

Giorgio Varanini & Peter H. Feindt Publish a New Article on Bioeconomy Policy Mixes and System Resilience We are pleased to announce the publication of our latest article “Policy design for resilience? An assessment of the bioeconomy policy mix addressing

BIOPOLISTA at the Status Meeting of the Bioeconomy Junior Research Groups in Gießen On November 26, members of the BIOPOLISTA team took part in the annual Status Meeting of the Bioeconomy Junior Research Groups in Gießen. The event brought together

Two publications by BIOPOLISTA team members have been recently published in the Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning and Journal of Environmental Management. The paper by Nicolai Goritz, Jonas von Pfister, Maria Proestou and Peter H. Feindt titled “Characterizing bioeconomy policy instruments: A

The BIOPOLISTA team member Adrien Ludot published a blog article on the website of World Sufficiency Lab titled “Beyond the Thermodynamic Wall: Why Sufficiency Must Drive Our Biomass Future”.  In the article, Adrien Ludot connects the principle of sufficiency to