Title: Model Region Bioeconomy & Circular Economy Styrian Volcanic Land
Funding source: Climate+ Energy fund funded by Federal Ministry of Climate Action (BMK)
Implementation period: 2022 - ongoing
Bio-based sector: Agriculture, Energy
Stakeholders involved: 27 municipalties
Description:
The goal of the priority region is to gradually shift the economy to a regional and sustainable resource base and to secure the resources of the future for a climate-friendly and sustainable regional economy and a long-term high quality of life. The following goals exist in the focus and cross-cutting areas:
- Soil: Establishing agricultural land as a store for carbon, nutrients and rainwater and maintaining and building up humus content.
- Valuable resources: High-quality refinement of regional resources for a strong regional economy
- Intelligently networked energy: Creating maximum quality of life with the lowest consumption of energy, resources and land
- Food: opening up new opportunities through healthy and high-quality self-supply
- Sustainable Lifestyle Initiative: Enthusiasm for sustainable lifestyles, empowerment and sufficiency movement