The national Bio-Economy Day returns to Ravenna, and doubles in length to explore the issues underpinning ecological transition and the fight to climate change. Intended as the economy that uses renewable biological sources as raw materials for industrial, energy, food and feed production, in 2020 the Italian bio-economy was worth 317 billion euros, and employed around 2 million people. The issues of this meta-sector, which proved to be resilient during the pandemic, and which forms the basis for the European Green New Deal, will be discussed by key stakeholders from the world of industry, agriculture and finance. This will also be an opportunity to discuss sustainable development, the UN 2030 Agenda and green jobs, and to award the schools that took part in the Bio-economy4You competition.

The national Bio-Economy Day returns to Ravenna, and doubles in length to explore the issues underpinning ecological transition and the fight to climate change. Intended as the economy that uses renewable biological sources as raw materials for industrial, energy, food and feed production, in 2020 the Italian bio-economy was worth 317 billion euros, and employed around 2 million people. The issues of this meta-sector, which proved to be resilient during the pandemic, and which forms the basis for the European Green New Deal, will be discussed by key stakeholders from the world of industry, agriculture and finance. This will also be an opportunity to discuss sustainable development, the UN 2030 Agenda and green jobs, and to award the schools that took part in the Bio-economy4You competition.

Why set out on a hike with Dante? Because walking is a “Dantesque” form of art. And because walking through a landscape is an act of art, which can transform one’s point of view and way of listening. Because creating poems, songs, stories and artworks together with the ‘Poet of Exile’ will be an extraordinary opportunity, good for one’s soul and heart. Musicians, singers, poets, ottava rimaimprovisers, musical chefs, puppeteers and hikers will set off together, walking from Florence to Ravenna to celebrate the Supreme Poet in the places where he lived, in the 700^thanniversary of his death. This highly symbolic event opens in Florence, touches on charming villages and on the places Dante celebrated, to end with a concert in the Apennines, near Ravenna.