B-Trust is a European project aimed at increasing the “public acceptance” of the use of biotechnology in the food and bio-based industry, where this can yield societal benefits. The lack of trust and “public acceptance” is considered one of the most pressing barriers to valorization for biotech innovations in Europe, and has risen to prominence among various stakeholders—particularly when it concerns food applications and related fields.
During the workshop, we will share groundbreaking insights from ten co-creation workshops with consumers, farmers, and affected industries regarding the perceptions and (perceived) risks—so-called “trust barriers”—that underlie so-called public distrust. Based on these insights, we would like to collaborate with you—representatives from industry, policy, research, and funding focused on biotech implementation—to develop concrete and feasible solutions that can be deployed to address these perceptions and perceived risks as barriers to valorization.
With this first workshop, we aim for a mix of profiles who can arrive at shared solutions from their different fields of expertise. These solutions will then be explored in more depth during a series of further co-design workshops. In the second part of the B-Trust project, we will focus on how these solutions and their underlying principles can be implemented.
Join our inaugural co‑design workshop in Antwerp on 7 May, scheduled just ahead of Knowledge for Growth—Europe’s premier life‑sciences conference. You don’t need to be registered for the conference, and participation in the B‑trust workshop is completely free.
You can register via the form below. After registration, you will receive a document summarizing the initial results from B-Trust, including an overview of the identified perceptions and (perceived) risks for the six biotech use cases used throughout the project. ment met een samenvatting van de initiële resultaten van B-Trust, inclusief een overzicht van de geïdentificeerde percepties en (waargenomen) risico's voor de zes biotech-toepassingen die door het hele project heen worden gebruikt.
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