Recommendations are short statements aimed at policy, geared towards the need for action to be taken.

BioEconomyCouncil Recommendations No. 1

The Bio-economy Research and Technology Council has delivered its first recommendations to the Federal Ministries of Education and Research (BMBF), and Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV) on 10 July 2009.

Combine disciplines, improve parameters, seek out international partnership (PDF, 1,1 MB)

BioEconomyCouncil Recommendations No. 2

The Bio-economy Council presented the priorities that it has set out for its research fields in the initial expert report in Brussels on 14 June 2011. In the Council’s estimation, this setting of priorities will make it possible to achieve the
objectives of the Federal German Government's “National Research Strategy Bio-economy 2030”. According to this the most pressing need is to breed new crop plants and farm animals, secondly to develop more efficient cultivation technologies and reduce harvesting losses, and thirdly to utilise soil as a resource on a more sustainable basis.

Priorities in Bio-economic Research (PDF, 0,2 MB)