{"id":10645,"date":"2026-04-21T10:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T08:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bioeconomy-austria.at\/?p=10645"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:39:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:39:31","slug":"tech-tour-forest-bioeconomy-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bioeconomy-austria.at\/en\/2026\/04\/21\/tech-tour-forest-bioeconomy-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Tour Forest Bioeconomy 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <strong>October 6, 2026, Graz <\/strong>will become a meeting point for international innovations in the bioeconomy: at <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/events.techtour.com\/event\/forestbio26\/Overview\">Tech Tour Forest Bioeconomy 2026<\/a><\/strong>, selected start-ups and scale-ups will have the opportunity to present their solutions to leading investors and industry partners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event is organized as part of the Bioeconomy Austria initiative and implemented together with international partners, including the Styrian Wood Cluster (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bioeconomy-austria.at\/projektpartner\/hc-steiermark\/\">Holzcluster Steiermark<\/a>). The goal is to showcase innovative companies along the forest-based bioeconomy value chain and connect them with capital and industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Focus Areas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Innovative companies are particularly sought in the following fields:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Sustainable Forestry &amp; Wood Tech<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wood-based and bio-based construction and material solutions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bio-based chemicals and industrial applications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Textiles and consumer products made from wood<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Circular use of wood, biomass, and bioenergy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What Companies Can Expect<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Pitch in front of more than 30 international investors and corporates<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Individual one-to-one meetings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Preparation through an online academy<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Visibility within the European innovation network<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 24 companies will be selected for the event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Application<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Interested companies can apply until May 29, 2026. The application process is streamlined and mainly consists of a company profile and a pitch deck<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/events.techtour.com\/event\/forestbio26\/Overview\">Further information and application<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:de]Start-ups gesucht[:en]Start-ups Wanted for Pitch Event in Graz[:]<\/p>\n<div class=\"bea_cf bea_cf_img_excerpt\">\u00a9Bioeconomy Austria<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projekt"],"acf":{"gelbes_kasterl":""},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bioeconomy-austria.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bioeconomy-austria.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bioeconomy-austria.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bioeconomy-austria.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bioeconomy-austria.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10645"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bioeconomy-austria.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10673,"href":"https:\/\/www.bioeconomy-austria.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10645\/revisions\/10673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bioeconomy-austria.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bioeconomy-austria.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bioeconomy-austria.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bioeconomy-austria.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}