Bioeconomy, the sustainable conversion of biomass into e.g. energy, food, materials and chemicals, can provide novel innovations important for both national and global well‐being. The Bioeconomy Doctoral Programme aims to train doctors with holistic (scientific, societal and economical) view on the bioeconomy concept. Specifically the focus of the doctoral programme is to cover the whole value‐chain starting from biomaterial characterization, to engineering and product development. The idea of the multidisciplinary education is to emphasize the cross‐disciplinary interfaces which are expected to lead to the future breakthrough innovations.

The Bioeconomy Doctoral Programme is based on the multidisciplinary and domestically unique research community Bioeconomy Research Community Oulu. Research groups of chemistry, technology and biology focusing on plant biotechnology, biomaterial modification and conversion techniques, and biorefining process development have strong ambition to form a tightly committed cross‐disciplinary entity.

The key supervisors of the Bioeconomy Doctoral Programme are highly qualified and have established cross‐sectorial cooperation in local, national and international scale which will be utilized to benefit the doctoral training. The cross‐disciplinary view will be provided by shared supervision of doctoral students and with courses and seminars.

The Bioeconomy Doctoral Programme provides an internationally oriented multidisciplinary research environment, where doctoral students achieve top‐level scientific training with prominent methodology toolbox and become aware of the challenges of future society, industry and research organizations. Thus, the trained doctors are able to act in diverse tasks related to the biomass value chain of the DP including academic (researcher positions), societal (expert positions) and industrial tasks (R&D).