Between the 29th and the 31st of October 2023, BioGov.net participated in the 2023 edition of Planetiers World Gathering, the biggest international event for sustainable innovation in Portugal, this year in the beautiful city of Aveiro.

This year’s edition received over 17,000 thousand virtual and in-person visitors and over 120 speakers from 100 different countries to engage in cutting-edge panel discussions, presentations, and workshops. Bringing together social and environmental impact projects, communities and cities, and the world’s most inspiring change agents to discuss new sustainable innovations that are emerging from committed entrepreneurs and changemakers.

The focus of this edition was on providing a broad range of ecological and societal issues including regenerative agriculture, energy transition, cities of the future, sustainable finance, and Global South & North Cooperation.

The 3-day event featured numerous workshops, an extensive exhibitor’s area, conferences and discussion forums featuring speakers such as Eila Kreivii (Chief Sustainable Finance Advisor at the European Investment Bank), Prof. Mohan Munasinghe (2021 Blue Planet Prize Laureate; Vice Chair, UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; Shared 2007 Nobel Prize For Peace), Justin van Schepen (Manager Climate Change Policy at Cefic), and many other.

BioGov.net was featured in the “EU Green Corner” that grouped several EU projects from different sectors of sustainable innovation, bioeconomy; blue economy; sustainable food systems and others.