Poster announcing the “Bio-Innovate Program Regional Scientific Conference”, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 25-28 February 2013.

1. Bio-Innovate Program Regional
Scientific Conference
Harnessing bioresources innovations for socio-economic transformation of eastern Africa
Venue: United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
(UNECA) Conference Hall,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Date: 25-28 February 2013
Introduction Bio-Innovate project implementing partners and collaborators will
use the opportunity to showcase their work and network with their
The Bio-resources Innovations Network for Eastern Africa contemporaries from within and outside the region. The conference
Development (Bio-Innovate) Program is a newly established regional is envisaged to foster closer regional cooperation among the various
initiative supporting multi-disciplinary biosciences and product actors in biosciences research for development.
oriented innovations with the aim of initiating, intensifying and
disseminating innovations for sustainable utilization, transformation Thematic Focus
and integration of the region’s bio-resources for economic growth
and development. The Program focuses on delivering new products The conference targets Bio-Innovate projects implementing partners
through biosciences innovation systems involving a broad sector of and collaborators and other stakeholders engaged in research and
actors including scientists, private sector, policy makers, NGOs and development with a focus on crop productivity and resilience to
other development practitioners. The Program is currently supporting climate change; management of agro-processing wastes and value
nine bioscience innovation and policy consortia projects bringing addition; industrial enzymes applications; and science, technology
together 57 partnering institutions from six participating countries and innovation policy.
of Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanza­ ia, and Uganda and
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outside the region. Program
Objective The conference program will encompass keynote presentations
from invited speakers, scientific presentations, poster sessions and
The objective of the three-day scientific conference is to create a panel discussions on strategies for integrating advanced biosciences
platform for regional collaboration, and infor­ ation and experience
m innovations into socio-economic development of the region.
sharing on biosciences innovation and bio-policy.
More details to be communicated in due course.