Value-chain pathways
Browse reference value chains to see how resources, technologies, products and actors can be connected in different contexts.
Explore pathways
The PRIMED Digital Toolbox is a practical digital environment for people and organisations developing circular and regenerative bioeconomy pathways in their territories. It supports a structured journey from a local opportunity or challenge to an initial pathway concept: understanding territorial conditions, exploring resources and technologies, connecting relevant actors, considering possible bioproducts and value chains, and framing the business, governance and impact questions that need to be addressed.
The Toolbox does not prescribe a single “best” solution. It brings together reference knowledge, working tools, examples and collaborative formats so that primary producers, SMEs, processors, technology providers, researchers, public authorities, investors, civil-society organisations and Living Lab facilitators can compare options and build a shared understanding of what may be possible.
Discover value-chain pathways, resources, technologies, pilot examples and future scenarios. Use them to identify patterns, opportunities, constraints and questions that matter in your territory.
Connect resources, technologies, products and potential partners into a first value-chain configuration. Make assumptions visible and identify the information still needed.
Use templates and facilitation materials to bring actors together around shared challenges, future visions, governance choices and practical next steps.
The Toolbox treats pathway design as a connected territorial process. It brings together material flows, technology choices, market opportunities, stakeholder relationships, governance arrangements and indicators so that technical possibilities can be discussed alongside the conditions for implementation.
Frame the shared challenge, opportunities, assets and local conditions that shape a pathway.
Identify available biomass, side streams and other inputs, together with current uses, quantities, seasonality and constraints.
Compare processing, conversion and enabling options that may be appropriate to the resource and territorial setting.
Consider who must contribute, benefit, decide, invest, regulate, operate or be affected by the pathway.
Link possible products, users, markets and value-chain relationships into a coherent configuration.
Develop a preliminary business-model hypothesis and a clear list of assumptions, risks and validation tasks.
Each area can be used independently, but they are designed to inform one another. Begin with the question or task that is most relevant to your work today.
Browse reference value chains to see how resources, technologies, products and actors can be connected in different contexts.
Explore pathwaysBuild and visualise a first resource-to-product configuration, then identify the assumptions and decisions that require local validation.
Design a pathwayCompare possible circular business-model patterns and create a working business case with practical questions to test next.
Build the business caseReview pilot and demonstration experiences to understand context, approach, results, transfer conditions and unanswered questions.
Learn from pilot casesUse place-based scenarios to explore plausible future conditions and stimulate discussion about opportunities, choices and uncertainty.
Explore future scenariosFind templates for Shared Agendas, stakeholder work, future visioning, territorial diagnosis, governance and action planning.
Work with your territoryVersion 1 of the PRIMED Digital Toolbox is designed to learn through use. Its content, pathways and collaborative functions will be improved through feedback from the project’s Living Labs and other users. The aim is not only to share information, but to support responsible, place-based experimentation and long-term collaboration around the bioeconomy.