Industrial symbiosis and bio-based business models offer powerful tools to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).

To this regard, SYMBIO offers a unique opportunity to build social value into business models from the design stage. By identifying opportunities for social value creation early on and incorporating them into decision-making criteria, businesses can maximize benefits for both society and the organization.

Because shaping a greener future is a collective task, we encourage you to explore the contents of our 2-day technical workshop (one in each participant's country), which provided operational tools for modelling resilient bio-based businesses and their social, economic, and environmental impacts using free AI tools.

First session: the power of industrial symbiosis

During the first session, we will take the first steps in developing indicators that businesses can use to measure the social value of new business models. This process involves integrating a top-down understanding of sustainable development policy goals for each region with bottom-up contributions from the business community. By the end of the session, you will have achieved the following: