The event will take place in person on 16 June 2026, from 09:30 to 14:00 CEST, at the Lombardy Region Office in Brussels, located at Place du Place du Champ de Mars 3, B-1050 Bruxelles, Belgium.
As an official Partner Event of the EU Green Week 2026, the DRIVE Final Event will host a series of high‑level sessions focused on the following key topics:
- Policy and investment conditions to foster rural innovation and circular bioeconomy development in Europe.
- Lessons and results from the DRIVE Hackathon Tour and regional roadshows, including concrete examples from local ecosystems.
- The mentorship and acceleration pathway, showing how early-stage ideas were supported through mentoring, capacity building, and investor readiness.
- Next steps for exploitation, replication, and synergies, to carry DRIVE’s tools, knowledge, and networks beyond the project lifetime.
