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			About the event	
	This workshop will bring together experts from industry, academia, and regulatory bodies to clarify what functional barriers are, how functional they work and how their performance should be demonstrated in practice. 
The agenda will focus on practical approaches, regulatory expectations, and real-world challenges to support a more harmonised understanding across stakeholders.

			Agenda	
	
Day 1 - Barrier Concepts & Types
13:00 - 17:00 - Registration and Welcome Coffee
13:00 - 13:10 - Welcome & Workshop Overview: Objectives, Agenda and Logistics
13:10 -14:40 - Breakout Rooms Discussion

Break Out 1: Physical vs. Chemical / Functional Barriers including Types of Barriers
Break Out 2: Types of Barriers in Practice - Passive, Diffusion-Based and Reactive Systems
Break Out 3: Recycling-Related Barriers & Coating Technologies
Break Out 4: Barrier Efficiency - What Modelling Can and Cannot Demonstrate

14:40 - 15:10 Coffee Break
15:10 - 16:30 - Presentation and Discussion for Each Topic
16:30 - 16:45 - Framing Day 2: From Prediction to Demonstration - What Evidence Do We Actually Need?
16:45 - 17:00 - Day 1 Wrap-up: Key Takeaways & Reflection
Day 2 - Demonstrating & Testing Functional Barrier Performance
09:00 - 14:00  - Networking Lunch from 14:00
09:00 - 09:10 - Day 2 Opening & Recap of Day 1
09:10 - 10:40 - Breakout Rooms Discussions

Break Out 5: Demonstrating Barrier Performance - Experimental Validation and Evidence Packages
Break Out 6: Migration Testing & Challenge Tests
Break Out 7: Analytical Methods & Advanced Testing Approaches
Break Out 8: Best Practices & Common Pitfalls - Design, Validation and Scale-up

10:40 - 11:10 - Coffee Break
11:10 - 12:40 - Presentation and Discussion for Each Topic
12:40 - 13:00 - Coffee Break
13:00 - 13:45 - Final discussions and Next Steps
13:45 - 14:00 - Workshop Conclusion, Key Takeaways & Action Items

			Registration	
	Registration fee: €100
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. For questions about registration, please contact Hugo Costa at hcosta@ilsieurope.be
Register here(opens in new tab)


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			Nature, Risk and Reward: Valuing Nature for a Resilient Food System	

					
	
	
Nature underpins the food we produce, the resilience of our supply chains and our long-term food security. Yet its true value is rarely reflected in the decisions that shape our food system.
Are we valuing nature accordingly?

			About the Forum	
	This policy forum brings together leaders from agriculture, food and drink businesses, finance, government and research to explore how valuing nature more effectively can strengthen resilience across the food system. Discussions will examine the growing risks posed by climate change, biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation, and consider how investment, policy and market incentives can be better aligned to reward practices that sustain and restore natural capital.
A central theme will be the alignment of incentives. Current market, policy and financial signals often fail to reward those delivering environmental benefits or investing in long-term resilience. The forum will explore how taxes, subsidies, private finance and emerging nature markets could be better calibrated to encourage sustainable practices and direct capital towards natural capital restoration, and why achieving this requires shared responsibility across the whole food chain, from farmers and manufacturers to retailers, investors and policymakers.
With speakers from:

Food industry
Finance sector
University of Limerick, Ireland
London School of Economics, UK
Queen's University Belfast, UK
Maastricht University, Netherlands

Programme and registration details to follow shortly.
For event-related queries, please contact: events@ilsieurope.be

			About BIOFIN-EU	
	
BIOFIN-EU aims to establish a comprehensive framework and technology that fosters the necessary conditions for nature-positive investments.
BIOFIN-EU is actively innovating and experimenting with novel approaches for capturing, aggregating, and analysing biodiversity and ecosystem services (ES) data. The goal is to minimise transaction and reporting costs associated with finance that supports the protection and restoration of biodiversity.
Learn more


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			Agenda	
	
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13:10 -14:40 - Breakout Rooms Discussion

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Break Out 3: Recycling-Related Barriers & Coating Technologies
Break Out 4: Barrier Efficiency - What Modelling Can and Cannot Demonstrate

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16:45 - 17:00 - Day 1 Wrap-up: Key Takeaways & Reflection
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09:10 - 10:40 - Breakout Rooms Discussions

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12:40 - 13:00 - Coffee Break
13:00 - 13:45 - Final discussions and Next Steps
13:45 - 14:00 - Workshop Conclusion, Key Takeaways & Action Items

			Registration	
	Registration fee: €100
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. For questions about registration, please contact Hugo Costa at hcosta@ilsieurope.be
Register here(opens in new tab)


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