Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Bioeconomy: How Renewable Resources Can Help the Future of Our Planet
University of York and BioYorkshire
This course explored the sustainable technologies, strategies, and careers helping the world transition to a biobased economy.
3 weeks, 4 hours per week
Alice North
Lead Educator, BioVale/BioYorkshire
University of York
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore what the bioeconomy is and which sectors it includes.
- Debate why the move away from a fossil-fuel economy is important.
- Identify some of the skills needed to pursue a career in the bioeconomy and some of the bioeconomy career paths available.
- Explain how natural resources such as plants and microbes can be used to produce high value chemicals.
- Assess how waste can be used as a resource to produce energy and products.
Syllabus
- What do we mean by the ‘bioeconomy’ and why is transitioning towards a bioeconomy important?
- Value from agricultural waste - how agricultural technologies are helping sustainability and agricultural residues can be used as a resource.
- Anaerobic digestion - turning waste materials into renewable energy and nutrient-rich fertiliser.
- Unavoidable food waste - how we can use it to make new products.
- High value chemicals from plants and microbes - solutions for the personal care, food, drink and pharma sectors.
Issued on 9th August 2021
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