On 9 July 2019, the 6th BioSC Spotlight took place in Inden, on the edge of the Inden opencast lignite mine, which was dedicated to structural change in the Rhenish mining area and the opportunities for agriculture within the framework of a sustainable bioeconomy. The approximately 80 participants came from science, business, local politics, agricultural administration, civil society, environmental associations and agricultural practice. The event took place in cooperation with the project \'Modellregion BioökonomieREVIER Rheinland\'.

The implementation of a sustainable bioeconomy requires fundamental transformations of existing resource systems, value networks, business models, infrastructures and governance systems. The forthcoming large-scale structural change in the Rhenish mining area offers a unique opportunity to explore and shape implementation options towards a regionally coherent sustainable bioeconomy. This is where the BioSC competence platform Transform2Bio comes in which is funded over a period of three years.

Discourses and decision-making mechanisms in complex social processes and the modelling of socio-ecological systems - these are only two of the research topics of Dr. Sandra Venghaus. She is group leader at the Institute for Energy and Climate Research at Forschungszentrum Jülich and will lead the BioSC competence platform Transform2Bio.

On 11 June 2019, the 21st BioSC Lecture took place at Forschungszentrum Jülich. Prof. Dr. Erik Meers from the University of Ghent presented three European clusters working at different levels to make the transition from linear to circular value creation possible. In particular, he addressed the nitrogen cycle and the use and recovery of nitrogen in agriculture.

On 7 July 2019, the Open Day took place at Forschungszentrum Jülich with around 23,000 visitors. There was great interest in the BioSC exhibition \"Products of the Bioeconomy\", which presented a variety of bio-based products that are already produced today. The Bioeconomy Trail, which covered the entire site, also attracted numerous visitors.