Quantitative and qualitative methods complementing: Bridging modelling and policy-making efforts to realise the European bioeconomy

The European Bioeconomy Strategy aims to facilitate the transition from a take-make-dispose fossil economy into one fostering circular bio-based value chains linking sustainable land use with cutting-edge products. Optimised designs, implementation and monitoring rely on continuous interactions between policymakers and modellers who run multiple scenarios for environmentally, economically and socially desirable futures. "Bridging modelling and policy-making efforts to realise the European bioeconomy" leverages a multi-layered framework that cross-references 39 policies and 32 models to assess how they address the five principle objectives of the Bioeconomy Strategy in terms of accompanying sectors, value-chains, and multi-dimensional indicators. The framework identifies gaps in bioeconomy knowledge both in policy and modelling. The analysis stemming from this framework matching policies and models based on their scope and aim, and reviewing how each addresses bioeconomy objectives, sectors, value chain stages and indicators, was built using mixed methods. The files complement the Supplementary Files of "Bridging modelling and policy-making efforts to realise the European bioeconomy" to produce a comprehensive compendium of the key findings extracted from the main publication.